About BRUTREVIEW
Real product opinions from real Reddit users — analyzed by AI, presented without bias.
What is BrutReview?
Welcome to BRUTREVIEW! We aggregate product recommendations from Reddit to help you make informed purchasing decisions based on real user experiences.
How it works
Searches Reddit
Using the Google Search API, BrutReview surfaces the most relevant Reddit threads for a given product — across all subreddits, not just obvious ones. r/BuyItForLife, niche hobby communities, r/frugalmalefashion, and anywhere else people discuss it.
Collects real comments
For each thread, the top-voted comments are gathered — up to 30 per thread with reply depth. Low-engagement threads are excluded. Only discussions with real signal make it through.
AI reads all of it
Google Gemini processes the full comment set and extracts recurring pros, cons, notable quotes, and a sentiment score from 1–10. The AI doesn't write opinion — it classifies what users already said.
Zero paid influence
No brand can pay to appear on BrutReview, improve their score, or suppress negative feedback. Products are added based on Reddit presence and search demand only. The score is what it is.
Why Reddit?
Amazon reviews are gamed. Influencer content is sponsored. Retailer "verified purchase" reviews are often incentivized. Reddit is different — users have no financial motive to praise or trash a product, and the community polices bad-faith posts aggressively.
When someone on r/BuyItForLife says they've used a bag every day for five years, that's not a 5-star review submitted for a discount code. It's a real person choosing to share a real opinion. That's the signal BrutReview is built on.
Mission
To provide honest, community-driven product recommendations.
Vision
To be the most trusted source for product reviews.
Who built this
I'm a software engineer who got tired of affiliate-driven review sites telling me what to buy. I built BrutReview solo — scraped Reddit at scale, wired up the AI analysis pipeline, and shipped the whole thing from scratch. My goal is simple: give you the unfiltered truth about a product before you spend your money on it.