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I built a free Fakespot replacement after it shut down — feedback welcome

Fakespot closing left a gap, so I built Caveat: a free Chrome extension that shows a trust score for a product's reviews (rating distribution + review-language patterns) and checks whether today's price is actually good, right on the Amazon/Etsy page. Some choices I made on purpose: - No account, no subscription, no ads or analytics - Read-only: it only reads the page you opened, never crawls or fetches in the background - The only revenue is a disclosed "Buy on Amazon/Etsy" link that

五维评分

付费意愿
25
需求真实度
55
个人可落地
75
竞争空间
35
新鲜度
80

AI 分析

痛点:Fakespot关闭后,亚马逊/Etsy购物者缺少免费可信的评论真伪判断与实时价格是否划算的工具。

目标用户:在Amazon/Etsy购物、担心虚假评论和买贵了的消费者,尤其是Fakespot前用户。

证据:Fakespot closing left a gap, so I built Caveat... The only revenue is a disclosed "Buy on Amazon/Etsy" link that appears when the price check finds a genuinely good price.

变现:联盟营销佣金(Amazon/Etsy Buy链接);后续可做高级价格追踪、批量商品分析或卖家端评论诊断的付费订阅。

MVP:2周内做一个仅支持Amazon US的Chrome扩展:读取当前商品页评论,展示评分分布+可疑语言模式信任分,并用简单规则或第三方API显示价格是否处于近期低位;先不做多国和Etsy,价格历史用众包或公开数据最小验证。

竞品:Fakespot(已关闭)、ReviewMeta、Keepa、CamelCamelCamel、Honey、The Camelizer

摘要:作者在Fakespot关闭后做了免费Chrome扩展Caveat,为Amazon/Etsy商品评论打信任分并检查价格,靠披露的联盟购买链接变现,无账号/订阅/广告。项目没有付费用户或收入数据,价格历史依赖众包早期会数据不足。虚假评论和价格判断是真实需求,但免费替代品多,独立开发者可做但付费意愿弱、竞争激烈。