I admire your ambition but I'm not confident about your scraping-based note taking system if you're missing the crucial facts (let alone the subjective pros and cons) of a frame like the LTK266-D-SL even now. @sazikashi has been regularly updating the original post in that thread, for instance, and it has all the information a website like yours should need. Even now you are mixing up the bb standards! BB86 is not T47. The biggest pro of the frame is the price-quality ratio and the WEIGHT which makes it the leader in its class. Cons might be aero-related for many buyers. Weight on hands? Irrelevant.
Im not sure this site is ready to be made public given the major errors for even just one recent open mould frame. If you're doing this for yourself that's great. But you did admit a lack of knowledge about bike buying and building that makes it hard for you to judge your own errors of commision and omission.
You're on to something with this database idea overall, and I like the design principles, but a quick glance based on my own knowledge of a particular frame suggests it's now more of a misinfo source than something 'opening up the black box' of china frames.
My suggestion is that for now the public facing site should be a list of popular frames, paired with industry-suppllied spec sheets, with links to their respective factory pages as well as their respective chinertown discussion threads. You should not editorialize from those threads: instead, prospective buyers should be encouraged to follow the link to read the thread themselves. It doesnt take so much time, and buying a frame is a major purchase decision anyways. Good luck with this project.
I appreciate the feedback, though you seem to be extrapolating from one frame you know well to dismiss the initiative. The site launched yesterday. Errors are being identified and fixed. If you find specific problems beyond the LTK266-D-SL, I'm grateful for feedback and I'll fix those too. But dismissing everything because of correctable mistakes or glitches this early is premature.
On the errors/typos: The BB standard typo is my fault - I can see how I originally logged it in my google spreadsheet as BB86, but it's been corrected today. Calling it wrong "even now" is misleading when the site has been public for less than 24 hours. The LTK266-D-SL entry was admittedly more rushed than others (I abandoned researching it early due to lack of large sizes for my own needs, though I did PM with Sakizashi to bounce some various impressions). These are fixable issues.
On your suggestion: Feel free to glance over the "index" page - it's pretty much what you're suggesting. Maybe you missed it? It lists frames I've followed with some high-level specs like BB type, build/mould method etc. I believe the table should be 95% correct (5% safety buffer inserted
). If someone wants to read hundreds of posts, they can (and probably
should do when finalizing their shortlist!). The added value comes from consolidating patterns - my notes fast-track key observations. Adding too many floods the page, adding none...meh (I tried that...). Yes, I made mistakes on the 266-D-SL. That doesn't invalidate the approach.
On iterative development: Maybe you're unfamiliar with this concept, but it's a rather accepted way of working - continuous improvement based on feedback. Much like manufacturers featured here improve their frames over time. Here are two short summaries:
https://entrepreneurship.hbs.edu/Documents/Session%20Summary/HBSRockMVPDevelopment.pdf and
https://versions.com/topics/iterative-design/"Rapid prototyping is a core part of iterative design. It emphasizes building just enough to test a hypothesis, not perfecting every detail from the start… Their value isn't in polish, but in speed to feedback. A rough idea, placed in front of users, can reveal more than a week of internal debate." (source: Versions.com link above)
