VendorDB - An independent RC-vendor review platform

Heya!

I’m excited to announce the release of a lil project I’ve been working on for some time: VendorDB

This is a site where you can find and review Research Chemical vendors, with more functionality on the way! Eventually, it will turn into the one-stop-shop for any and all vendor information!

Check it out at https://vendordb.info

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Are all of the shops verified to be legitimate?

It’s a review platform, not a list of trusted vendors.

Bad vendors get bad reviews, fraudulent vendors get removed if enough people convince me of their fraudulence via the report feature.

Eventually I’m planning to implement a sort of “warning system”. Meaning if I have reason to believe malpractice is going on (reports etc), the vendor gets a yellow banner saying “This vendor is suspected of x, VendorDB is investigating” with status updates and everything, and if I can prove malpractice without a doubt they get a red banner and are moved to a “naughty list” (warning people is better than pretending non-existence). However, I got major life stuff going on rn, so all that won’t be done for some time.

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Just out of curiosity, what has your experience with Svelete been like? What do you like or dislike about it?

I’ve heard bits and pieces about Svelete over the past couple of years but haven’t had a chance yet to try it out myself.

i assume you mean svelte

it’s my absolute go-to framework. have personally also worked with angular, vue, and react (react even right now because job), but svelte in form of sveltekit is the best.

easy to use, minimal boilerplate, flexible, and can still do whatever the fuck you wanna do unless you’re tryna win some website performance award or whatever.

for backends i usually do typescript with express.js and/or socket.io behind mongodb, until recently on node but nowadays on deno.

then you slap all that behind a caddy reverse proxy on a dedicated server running arch linux, give it a porkbun domain, and you got my perfect setup.

imagine google indexing this for people who are tryna look up svelte reviews and i pull a bunch of innocent people into some drug forum lmao

Honestly probably not unlikely if someone else thinks it was spelled with an extra “e” like I did, lol