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That's super cool. I launched a book recommendations feature this year, which works vastly different. I ask users what their favorite books are(which you can rank), and then allow …

One of my favorite games of all time. It's so simple yet can be so complex. You can legit spend 8+ hours playing the first couple levels easily.

I failed out of college my senior year because I discovered EQ. So many fond memories. I created a guild on a new server and it ended up one of the most famous and best guilds on a…

I think it's most useful for discovering new reads, especially with the advanced search and recommendations functionality. I do agree i could do a better job of non spoiler summari…

Still working on my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org that I started in 2008. It's been a 1 man team the entire time. I recently made some major algorithm changes that I thin…

recently launched book recommendations feature for my books side project that I put a LOT of work into. I might be biased but I think it works well as long as you give it your favo…

that's awesome! I've had many many side projects launched in the past 2 decades, but the only one still going is my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org I created it 17~ years a…

been using https://github.com/alexrudall/ruby-openai for years with no issues which is a fine gem and works great.

yeah the amazon product API has some severe limitations. I have 25,000~ books on my site, and I just don't have enough API calls in a day to keep the prices 100% updated. It's on m…

I built it in 2008, and have rewritten it twice now since them. I have spent quite a bit of time adding new lists. It's definitely a labor of love and I do spend quite a bit of tim…

The Greatest Books https://thegreatestbooks.org I created it in 2008 and have maintained and improved it over the years. I am trying to figure out how to monetize it more. I curren…

I had the same issue with TikTok/ByteDance. They were using almost 100gb of my traffic per month. I now block all ai crawlers at the cloudflare WAF level. On Monday I noticed a HUG…

This is awesome! Do you mind if I add this list to my books site? ( https://thegreatestbooks.org ) I'll give you full credit and link back to your site.

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still working on https://thegreatestbooks.org been my main side project since like 2008. working on goodreads import right now. Always working on improving the algorithm. would lov…

This problem is only going to get worse. for my thegreatestbooks.org site i used to just get indexed/scraped by google and bing. now it's like 50+ AI bots scraping my entire site j…

The amount of AI bots scraping/indexing content is just mind boggling. for my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org , without blocking any bots, I was probably getting 500,000~ r…

It's insane how toxic the js environment is. it seems like if a project is over 6 months old, nothing will work. When I yarn install on an old project, i'm rolling the dice. I had …

The biggest complaint with aggregated book lists, is they are way too western focused. I made a page with some very specific country and author limits at an attempt to correct this…

"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; + https://openai.com/gptbot )" "52.230.152.37"

i definitely see a lot of indexing requests from openai in the logs of my books site. I figured it was just the bing integration. (thegreatestbooks.org)

I build this app over a decade ago. https://thegreatestbooks.org which I aggregate all the "lists" and use a weighted algorithm to create a single list of the best books. I've been…

No. It's been awhile since I played around with it, but it's a front end framework that depends on react, that's really good at generating static pages

yeah, the last item I bought from Etsy showed up in an Amazon box. The seller legit just bought the item on amazon and shipped it to me for 2x the price.

delta 8 will definitely get you high just like weed