Wirecutter is a list of the best gear and gadgets for people who want to save the time and stress of figuring out what to buy. Whatever sort of thing you need—tableware or TV or air purifier—we make shopping for it easy by telling you the best one to get. The site was founded in September 2011 and was acquired by
The New York Times Company in October 2016
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Our recommendations are made through vigorous reporting, interviewing, and testing by teams of veteran journalists, scientists, and researchers. Consider us a best-of list for everyday things; a curated gallery filled with only interesting, useful objects; a thank-you note to the designers and engineers who create the stuff that makes our lives better; a geeky friend with next-level research skills who tests everything they buy so you don’t have to. The point is to make buying great gear quickly easier so you can get on with living your life.
We pride ourselves on following rigorous journalistic standards and ethics, and we maintain editorial independence from our business operations. Our recommendations are always made entirely by our editorial team without input from our revenue team, and our writers and editors are never made aware of any business relationships.
So you focus on only the best things?
We look for what we think is best for most people. We don’t look for the most feature-packed gadget, or the finest finishes in home goods. We pick the things that will fit best into the lives of everyday people who are shopping for it—and that’s what takes work.
The choices we’ve made here with our team took weeks or months of research and years of experience with a wide variety of gear. In addition to our own expertise, we include interviews and data from the best editorial sources around. We also employ the help of engineers, scientists, and other subject-matter experts. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to regular people. Most gear we choose here isn’t top-of-the-line models that are overpriced and loaded with junk features; we aim to recommend items that are of high enough quality to warrant the price, but not items that cost more for extra features you’ll rarely use.
These are the same gadgets we’d recommend to our friends and family, and these are the same things we’d choose for ourselves.
We started Suiteness in 2014 with a simple goal: let anyone book exclusive luxury hotel suites they never knew existed, online. Suiteness has access to the most luxurious suites in the world. Experience amenities like private entrances, personal butlers, and even private pools. Never before have these suites been available for booking online, but now with Suiteness you are able to get easy access to the perfect luxury suite tailored specifically to your every desire.
Headquartered in Denver, CO, Ibotta (“I bought a…“) is transforming the shopping experience by making it easy for consumers to earn cash back on everyday purchases through a single smartphone app. The company partners with leading brands and retailers to offer rebates on groceries, electronics, clothing, gifts, home and office supplies, restaurant dining, and more. Ibotta is the premier destination for rewarded shopping on mobile, and has paid out more than $200 million in cash back to its users. Launched in 2012, Ibotta has nearly 22 million downloads, and is one of the five most frequently used shopping apps in the United States.
Mystery Science provides open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. Our aim is to reach children before they’ve lost their natural curiosity about the world, and to inspire them to develop a scientific understanding of it. We are reaching hundreds of thousands of children this school year by helping tens of thousands of elementary teachers to teach science. We are backed by NewSchools, Learn Capital, 500 Startups, and numerous education angel investors.
Mystery Science was started by two long-time friends,
Doug Peltz and
Keith Schacht. Doug was a master classroom teacher, a science department head, and the creator of an original science curriculum that made science the most popular subject at his school. Keith Schacht, our CEO, has started and sold three technology companies, was a product manager at Facebook, and a TED speaker.
BookingSync is more than a vacation rental solution for hosts and agencies; it is a platform for hundreds of applications and developers. We need an excellent engineer to take on the challenges of developing scalable APIs, beautifully designed micro/macro-services, modeling complex domain and doing all that following TDD and writing a code of excellent quality.
We are growing fast as so are our requirements for scalability and stability. We are no longer at a scale where adding X number of servers solves all the issues. Database sharding, replicating data via message queues/distributed streams, optimizing response times in APIs to the max, integration with multiple services coming from our own ecosystem and numerous third-party services, and very soon dealing with big data – those are the things you can surely expect to be challenged by.
We are also a fully-remote async/distributed company across the entire world without a physical office. If traveling is your passion and you highly value location-independence, BookingSync is the right place for you.
We’re a passionate group of fitness enthusiasts, technology experts, and business professionals who strive to inspire our customers with the latest and greatest fitness technology. We believe that a healthy lifestyle should be exciting, so we constantly push the limits to bring our customers state-of-the-art products that will help them in every aspect of their lives.
Fit’s focus is to connect everybody to everything fitness. We love software that talks to real things. Our parent company is the world’s largest fitness manufacturer (our brands include: NordicTrack, ProForm, Freemotion, and more), which provides us a LOT of devices to engage with. We believe a healthy lifestyle should be fun, so we constantly push the limits to bring our customers state-of-the-art products that will help them in every aspect of their lives.
Tawkify is the fresh, smart, tech-driven matchmaking company dedicated to putting fun and romance back into dating. We hire exceptionally kind, organized people who believe in Happily Ever After and want to help our clients find it.
Get started with a basic profile and upload your photo. This is just a “starter” profile that we’ll build out from our conversations with you.
Tawkify is a matchmaking company, not a “dating site”. That means humans – not machines – will pick your matches, and we’ll use your profile information and photo in that process. We’ll never share your identity, profile or private information.
ScheduleOnce is an end-to-end solution for scheduling with prospects and customers through all phases of the customer lifecycle. We connect with all major calendar platforms and provide feature-rich integrations with your CRM, web conferencing, and other online channels. Regardless of your business type or industry, ScheduleOnce allows your prospects and customers to professionally engage with your business at a time that works for you both. Our users report an up to 3x increase in conversion rates, up to 2x acceleration in time-to-engagement, and up to 50% time savings.
ScheduleOnce was founded in 2006 by Gilad and Rami Goraly, who embarked on a project to create a scheduling platform that can withstand the challenges of any time zone and Daylight Saving scenario. The first version of our product was brought to market in 2008. We listened carefully to our customers and evolved the product to support their needs. As time passed, the product became stronger and better, attracting larger customers with more sophisticated demands.
Today, ScheduleOnce is a leading scheduling platform used by tens of thousands of customers worldwide. However, this is not the end game for us. We have a huge roadmap ahead of us with big plans to improve our product in every facet. We will continue to push forward with more third-party integrations, more comprehensive mobile support, and additional scheduling features that solve real-world scheduling problems with elegance.
TIM tried to find a modern solution to enable mobile bidding in his auctions, but everything he saw entailed lugging lots of equipment into the field with him. He wanted something simple yet powerful that used the smartphone already in his pocket. Something that didn’t exist yet.
So he contacted ANDY, a friend of his who had decades of industry experience building software for Amazon and Rosetta Stone. Tim knew he and Andy would make an excellent team solving problems for auctioneers. BidWrangler was born.
After spending time talking to auctioneers, Tim and Andy realized what you really wanted was all the BidWrangler performance in your own app. So they delivered. They continue to listen to auctioneers, expanding on the platform that powers all of BidWrangler’s products.
We’ve been happily scheduling time online ever since we launched our first app, WhenIsGood.net, in 2008. YouCanBook.me was born in 2011. Since then we’ve grown from a tiny tool with a handful of users to a service that tens of thousands of people trust to handle over 750,000 bookings a month.
Even though the product has grown over the years, we’re still a small and dedicated team who love solving scheduling problems all over the world. We’re proud to remain a privately owned company – solvent, stable and a safe pair of hands.
Find out more about us below – do use the links to get in touch, we love to hear from people reaching out. Or just tell us about your favourite cup of tea or type of cheese.
That stuff’s important to us.
