Do you intent to make money of it? If so, how do you plan to do that?
If people buy books through my site I get a cut
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Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#22You might also try adjusting the number of books that load at one time from 10 to 12 or something divisible by 4 so that you load complete shelves and don't have half a shelf loaded.
I wonder why this was not obvious to me. The original ShelfLuv had 5 columns of books which is why 10 loaded at a time. Great suggestion
Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Non-facebook login seconded. I'd give it a go if it weren't for that.
Can people tell me the order of preference? What alternative is most attractive after that.
Email followed distantly by twitter and openid. The only reason twitter is there is that I have an account, but don't use it or care about it.
More importantly I will never use facebook to signup somewhere else. I don't want random services anywhere near my facebook profile.
Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#24No one has mentioned it yet, but I think the name is brilliant. Clever and memorable. You might want to get shelflove.com if your site becomes successful, as I imagine lots of typos and word-of-mouth traffic will mistakenly end up there.
I will try to get that if I can afford it
Can I equally suggest you try to get it /before/ your site becomes too popular - if you are seeing growth and anticipate it will do. Otherwise, the shelflove domain will get increasing type-in traffic as your site grows, and its value to the owner (hnce cost to acquire) will go up proportionally.
Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#25I like the design and idea. One thing you might think about is letting people put their own amazon referral id (for a cost or something). I recently asked Hacker Newsletter subscribers what books they were reading and had a great response, so I created a page to display the results ( http://www.kaledavis.com/2011/03/25/hnl-book-list-vol1.html ). Amazon astore's are just not what I was looking for, but something like…
I feel like that less than 1% of the people on there would be using this feature
Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#26I like the layout - the landing page looks pretty good. A few suggestions: - While I like the script font in your logo, I think it's a little too hard to read. The letterforms of the "u" and "v" are very similar and could use some slight modification to differentiate them. The kerning is also off - the letters are suppost to connect, but the tracking is too wide. - I think there's too much movement on the home page.…
Those are all great suggestions. I do agree there is a lot of movement there. I need to simplify it a bit and bring the focus back on the call to action.
Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#27I really like the design, and the idea is nice. One suggestion I have is making some way to add books from your My Shelf page. I didn't see a way easily, and ended up just going to the browse page. I'm assuming that's probably the flow you want, but you may want to have a plus button or something on the shelf UI that links to the browse page for books.
You should be able to. Once you are logged in, when you hover over any book on the shelf view, you click on 'Shelf it' to immediately add it to your shelves.
Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#28Proof, if ever it were needed, that it's execution not the idea that's important. No doubt there are others too, as I have a half-backed prototype of pretty much this idea (including Amazon integration), however it's nowhere near finished (it was a Rails learning excercise), and even if it was, would never have looked half as good as this. Nice work!
Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#29smashing success! Great idea and awesome execution. I think this sort of 'display my favorites' is wide open for niche products, like maps, for map lovers.
Re: Ask HN:Review My Updated Side Project - ShelfLuv.com (250 invite codes)
#30Proof, if ever it were needed, that it's execution not the idea that's important. No doubt there are others too, as I have a half-backed prototype of pretty much this idea (including Amazon integration), however it's nowhere near finished (it was a Rails learning excercise), and even if it was, would never have looked half as good as this. Nice work!
what sort of Amazon integration have you done? Be curious to know what ideas you had