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      <description>Nobody in Bangladesh trusts online ratings, and they are right not to. What changes when leaving a review costs you something.</description>
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      <description>I founded Let&apos;sGo at fourteen and have shipped close to a hundred sites. Every project that went badly failed the same way, for the same reason.</description>
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