I Built a Chair Recommendation Tool Using Real Reddit Feedback — Here's What I Learned

A few months ago, I was stuck in a frustrating loop. My back hurt after long workdays, and I kept buying and returning office chairs that felt fine in the showroom but became unbearable after a week. The problem wasn't the chairs themselves — it was that every "best chair" review out there was written for some generic average person, not for me. I'm 6'0". My girlfriend is 5'2". We sit completely differently. But all the top‑10 lists and Wirecutter reviews treated us like the same person. So I went down a rabbit hole: I started reading thousands of Reddit comments from real people — short, tall, heavy, light, with back pain, tailbone pain, people who sit cross‑legged, people who recline all day. And it hit me that the best recommendations were already out there. They were just buried in threads. So I built a tool to organize that chaos. Here's how it works and what I learned along the way. The data: no scraping, just a lot of reading I didn't write a scraper or