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Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading

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Post by sacert » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 11:53 PM UTC

Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading
topfantasyreads.com

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Post by dannykwells » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 12:23 AM UTC

I feel like it would be nice to have a "rising" category - most of these are from heavy hitters/already famous.

However, very cool - any thoughts for other categories (SciFi, etc.)?

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Post by sacert » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 12:31 AM UTC

dannykwells wrote: post #2

I feel like it would be nice to have a "rising" category - most of these are from heavy hitters/already famous. However, very cool - any thoughts for other categories (SciFi, etc.)?

Yeah totally! Initially just whipped this together as a MVP. Been trying to read more non-technical books so I thought about making a site that'd help me choose one to pick. Aim is to have a top weekly/monthly section as well as you said, different categories!

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Post by matthewtoast » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 12:32 AM UTC

This is great. Any plans to add other genres (sci fi, espionage, mystery...)?

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Post by InterestBazinga » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 12:39 AM UTC

Nice! Would love to see a non-fiction version of this!

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Post by dvasdekis » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

matthewtoast wrote: post #4

This is great. Any plans to add other genres (sci fi, espionage, mystery...)?

Yes please! This is great. Another request for Sci-Fi from me! :)

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Post by hombre_fatal » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 12:59 AM UTC

Grats for shipping something, but my advice would be to give it more social substance since a list of books isn't all that inspiring. I can just go to Amazon's fantasy section for an equally inactionable list.

For example, one idea is to link/embed comments that mention it.

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Post by hornd » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 12:59 AM UTC

This is pretty cool. Is the comment processing restricted to some period of time? Maybe considering linking to Goodreads as well?

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Post by rohmanhakim » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 1:01 AM UTC

I love how you linked each book into bookstore.org. Any specific reason?

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Post by sacert » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 1:03 AM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #7

Grats for shipping something, but my advice would be to give it more social substance since a list of books isn't all that inspiring. I can just go to Amazon's fantasy section for an equally inactionable list. For example, one idea is to link/embed comments that mention it.

Very true, main goal was to ship something to see if people are interested before I continue working on it.