> difficult to know which brands are still actually quality anymore

I haven't verified its accuracy, but I had a tab open for this from HN a while back:

> The Brand Ledger tracks 397 brands, from the tools in your garage to the pans in your kitchen. Who owns them, what they used to be, whether they're still worth buying.

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/

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hn_acc1 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, not sure I would rely on that.. Sure, they have Knipex and Klein on the approved list (which, AFAIK, is true), but then they list Warby Parker (read reddit - has gone WAY downhill), Cutco (by all accounts, a total rip-off and super low-quality knives requiring you to constantly get them sharpened) and Henkels, which also makes some pretty suspect knives, AFAIK.

	▲	teh_klev 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There's two Henckels listed: https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands/henckels-internatio... https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands/zwilling The first one is on their watchlist and probably the brand you're thinking of?

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jolt42 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It doesn't seem they address the quality of the final products, just how the companies are run. Anecdotally, I know tons of nurses wear Hoka shoes and act like they are to die for, but yet Hoka is on the avoid list. It would be more interesting rather than some vague articles about the brand to actually compare reviews before / after or how they match up against Consumer Reports --- a much more valuable resource in my mind.

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fwip 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's fully LLM-written. You can trust it if you want, but there's stuff in there that's clearly wrong or nonsensical.