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Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by stopachka »

dstaley wrote: post #30

I love this idea! One of the main use cases I would like to see would be sharing a direct link to a collection. It would be nice to be able to build a collection and link directly to just that collection. Additionally, having the ability to add a public description for each book in a collection would be really nice since you could use that to provide additional context.

Great points dstaley!

Linkable book shelves: Noting this! We'll prioritize Description for a book: Right now, there's a kind of hack you can do: if you write a "thought" about a book, it will show up on your book page too. We're thinking about some kind of "pin a thought as a description" feature -- that should be on it's way too!

Here's to iterating : )

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by lkbm »

Quick note, since I don't see a contact form:

Once I signed in, I got this paragraph on my profile:

> Welcome to your Library! Once you start creating bookshelves and adding books, they will show up here! Until then here's some helpful information on how to build your library. From the library edit page you can create bookshelves and add books.

"library edit page" is a link to https://www.zeneca.io/edit -- which is a 404.

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

lkbm wrote: post #34

Quick note, since I don't see a contact form: Once I signed in, I got this paragraph on my profile: > Welcome to your Library! Once you start creating bookshelves and adding books, they will show up here! Until then here's some helpful information on how to build your library. From the library edit page you can create bookshelves and add books. "library edit page" is a link to https://www.zeneca.io/edit -- which is a…

I also had this experience - noting it in case the developers would like to know.

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by crossroadsguy »

stopachka wrote: post #24
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #16

Great idea! But, I'm not going to give you MY content, for free, if you don't AT LEAST allow for my content, and the content of my peers on your website, to be in a format which is easy to export and edit. You know why? Because in a couple of years you will raise more money, and your VC will tell you that a subscription business is a great idea, you will follow him, and I will need to decide between paying you $X per…

Fair concern Simone, For what it's worth -- we definitely plan on making it easy to export and delete your data. While this feature is on the way, you can always ping us, and we can send you a data structure of your data, or delete it.

Mostly what the parent commenter has said. In fact anywhere where I'd put my effort and add content for free I'd only start using that service as a creator/contributor when these are parts of the feature set and T&C:

- you'd let users easily export and delete their data/account - that you'd give users time to export their data in an easily readable format and also delete their account (with assurance that data will actually be deleted), if you are planning something that might change these possibilities -- a sale, a VC thingie - you'd give this option in the UI/app itself and not via an email or support request

Till then, I'd either not use the service or just use as a parasite.

Bitter experiences and all that.

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I like the font. However, the UI feels more like a blog, and it's not intuitive to me what I want to do with it.

UX is clunky on Firefox with default uBlockOrigin turned on. And yes, no way to delete the account. Well..

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by nezaj »

lkbm wrote: post #34

Quick note, since I don't see a contact form: Once I signed in, I got this paragraph on my profile: > Welcome to your Library! Once you start creating bookshelves and adding books, they will show up here! Until then here's some helpful information on how to build your library. From the library edit page you can create bookshelves and add books. "library edit page" is a link to https://www.zeneca.io/edit -- which is a…

Fixed! Thanks for letting us know :) We'll add that contact form too!

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by HenryBemis »

nezaj wrote: post #14
HenryBemis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I LOVE the idea!! (as long as you don't become the next FB and sell-off everything you can collect:) it's a very useful tool to find more good reads and 1) are you planning to introduce passwords? 2) what are your thoughts on adding privacy settings? 2a) perhaps I want my account to be visible to only a few people, and not to everyone 2b) perhaps I like reading 'naughty' books that I don't want visible to everyone, b…

Co-creator Joe here! Thanks for all the questions! Will try to address each one point by point below 1) Initially we went with magic links because we thought that would be a better UX. It's been surprising and amusing to see how much feedback we get on this. We hear you loud and clear and will budget some time to move auth from magic links to passwords / o-auth 2) Privacy settings make sense! We'll be baking this in…

Thank you Joe.

One thought I had (disclaimer: I am not looking for a date!!!!)(for now!). I also see this as an opportunity to "meet like-minded people in your area". I remember back in the day where ICQ had a 'search' mode. Imagine I can pick 10 books that someone (m/f/...) has read in my area. I am not suggesting your make this a dating site, but for introverts/avid readers it wouldn't surprise me if people would be paying attention to that.

Perhaps a setting that would add the location "Henry" versus "Henry (London, UK)". Feel free to add this on the "never do" list :)

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