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Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

blurrywh wrote: post #6

Nice Amazon affiliate hack. Would be great if the OP would tell us how many sales he made through this post (once he got the stats from the Amazon affiliate dashboard).

In 2011 I launched a side-project called hackerbooks.com (wayback machine link https://web.archive.org/web/20110305143421/http://www.hacker...).

It got a fair bit of traction.

Out of my memory, Amazon affiliate links only earned me something like $30, total (I had other sources of revenue via targeted ads, which earned a bit more, but not much).

Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow

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Post by blurrywh »

eliben wrote: post #24
blurrywh wrote: post #6

Nice Amazon affiliate hack. Would be great if the OP would tell us how many sales he made through this post (once he got the stats from the Amazon affiliate dashboard).

I'm not sure I see what's wrong with this. The author obviously invested work in this and provided a resource others may find useful. You're free not to buy books through their affiliate links.

Did I say with one word that I find OP's work wrong? Where did you read this? Why are you so negative?

It's great what the OP did and I am really interested in his sales (and he already gave some insights, he's a great guy)

Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow

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Post by blurrywh »

vladwetzel wrote: post #10
blurrywh wrote: post #6

Nice Amazon affiliate hack. Would be great if the OP would tell us how many sales he made through this post (once he got the stats from the Amazon affiliate dashboard).

I posted yesterday on reddit, 5 books sold

Thanks for the info, highly appreciated!

Do you think it will get decent traffic through SEO in future?

Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow

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Post by dazzawazza »

whatever_dude wrote: post #26
Malic wrote: post #25

I'm surprised that Peopleware (DeMarco and Lister) isn't in there somewhere.

This. It's not exactly programming, but I think this should be recommended reading. I've only read it about 20 years into my career but it all clicked - I wish I had seen it earlier.

As a Senior programmer, over the years, I've bought eight copies for Juniors to help them cope and learn to deal with other types of programmers (or stop being fucking hero-programmers).

Should be mandatory reading IMHO.

Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow

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Post by vladwetzel »

blurrywh wrote: post #44
vladwetzel wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I posted yesterday on reddit, 5 books sold

Thanks for the info, highly appreciated! Do you think it will get decent traffic through SEO in future?

As to be honest, I have no clue about SEO at all :) I'm happy some other developers checked it out...Didn't even think to support this project, data is quite static. But according to some feedback, some things to be changed for better filtering. Will get on it at night :) Not really interested in sales, will be happy if amazon would send me a pack of beer :)
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