It isn't really IT, but it is so damn close to what I'm working at. Sure, I knew there's a huge competition since I started, but all those freebases and wolfram|alphas were either different, ugly or hard to use. This is none of them. The only good thing for me is that the main turf for the website are mostly the States and I'm aiming higher.
On the other hand, they have a huge amount of pictures, awesome graphs, nice filtering options with excellent results interpretation, overwhelming wizard-like "assist me" function and much, much more.
When I shaked the surprise off, I started to pick features I like and think how to implement them into QetriX.
- Classifications should have default icon and picture.
- For attribs there should be an information about what value (lower/higher) is better. A weights for this would be nice too.
- User friendly filtering, using not just values and check boxes, but nice min-max sliders as well. Domains will be handy here.
- Entity should me even more specific, with charts and tables.
- Related entities are necessary.
- Besides the main entity it would be handy to attach small info-box for related entities too, such as manufacturer, superior area unit, homeland etc.
- User ratings and comments would be there again. Comments with rating also (up/down vote, likes...).
I assume it's also written in PHP, since /index.php returns no 404. I was trying to find their data sources, but I found only a simple statement: "We obtain our information from three sources: Public databases, primary sources (manufacturer websites) and expert sources." Well, sincerely I didn't expect much more, since data sources are the main business secrets here.
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