MyTrustedBrands.com
Online shopping without the noise
After launching MyTrustedBrands.com and getting a small amount of traction last month, today I woke up and saw none other than Josh Pigford had released his own web extension targeting the very same problem - the shopping experience on Amazon. His twitter post went viral, hitting over 10MM views in 24 hrs. Meanwhile, my posts are being aggressively taken down from Reddit despite traction and upvotes.
What started as a side project is likely to be sidelined by a much higher profile launch, but I'm not giving up. The idea was just proven to be incredibly viable by a huge positive response. Keeping a frictionless web application available as an alternative to the high-friction web extension is where I can differentiate today, and I'm trying to use the momentum of the problem to share my own solution.
Keeping my chin up!
It's kooky, it's clunky, and it's driven over $2000 in sales in under 30 days. Used claude code for development and I'm running a stack that costs <$10 per month.
$0 in advertising, my only traction came from a handful of posts on reddit.
AMA
https://MyTrustedBrands.com
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What stood out to me is that you're not helping people find products—you're helping them trust what they're buying.
That's a much stronger problem to solve. If people start opening your site because they want confidence rather than just search results, you've moved into a very different category than product discovery.
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Wow, I just saw Josh Pigford launched a very similar product literally yesterday - knockoff.shopping.
It only proves the problem.
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Can't believe I waited to start posting off-reddit until literally the day this happened.