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How GiftHint Chooses What to Recommend
How products make the cut, how guides get updated, and what affiliate revenue does not decide.
The bar
What makes the list
Every pick on this site has my name behind it. That changes how I think about what goes in a guide.
Before anything makes the page, I need to know who it's for, why it beats the obvious choice, and what makes it worth the money. If I can't explain those things in a couple of sentences, the product isn't ready. Generic roundups of bestselling stuff don't clear the bar. Every guide is a shortlist, not a catalog, and shortlists require cutting.
If I can't explain why this one and not the other six, it doesn't make the page.
Process
How I evaluate a pick
Context over category
A great coffee grinder doesn't automatically belong on a Father's Day guide. It belongs there when the guide is for dads who actually grind their own beans and I can explain why this grinder over the twelve others I looked at.
Real tradeoffs
I write real pros and cons. Not “great quality, highly recommended” filler, but actual tradeoffs. This one's heavier than you'd expect. That one's perfect but only if they already own a burr grinder.
Honest pricing
Prices stay approximate. I use ranges like “around $45” or “$30–$60” because exact prices change by the hour and I'd rather be roughly right than precisely wrong.
Updates
When something gets cut
Guides aren't fire-and-forget. If a product goes out of stock, the quality drops, or I find something better, the recommendation gets replaced. I don't leave a pick in place just because it was good six months ago.
The date on a guide moves when the actual recommendations change: a new pick added, an old one pulled, a meaningful rewrite of why something's on the list. I don't bump the date for typo fixes or formatting tweaks.
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