Ask HN: Help me with this project - Gizmoojo.com

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17 years ago

I've been maintaining Gizmoojo.com for the past few years and did not had the time to do anything with it. So I've been thinking about doing more with Gizmoojo and so have started thinking about ideas on how I could extend or revamp Gizmoojo.

Gizmoojo started out as gizmo/gadget review site. The whole concept counts on average geeks/joes to create review/content on the gadgets that they love. In doing so, they get to share revenue from Amazon Associates Ads on their review pages. So here is an actual review page: http://gizmoojo.com/moojos/show/12

Well as you can see, the site has a cool design (IMO) but the show stopper is getting people to sign up and submit reviews.

What should I do with Gizmoojo? I really would appreciate any suggestions/ideas/help on what should I do next.

Here's what I'm thinking about. Making Gizmoojo sort of a gadget wiki but on steroids. Meaning, each gadget/gizmo/device gets it own dedicated page. Users can edit pages like a wiki and thus maintaining history of edits. Pull in amazon reviews, tweets, pics from flickr. Users can submit deals on that item.

Are you a rails developer or learning rails? If you are interested on working on this project, I'm happy to discuss. Email me ( address's in my profile )

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