Congratulations on getting it done.
Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly
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#62I see the sample chapter has an autoconf porting example. Is porting a CMake based project covered anywhere in the book?
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#63Intersting, I've been looking into this recently and this might be the thing I need to finally get stuck into it. Pricing seems reasonable, I'm not sure about other comments saying it's a little high.
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#64Congrats! Any comments on how straightforward you found completing the book? Did you get stuck at any point? What was the most difficult part?
Also, do you have a marketing plan? How are potential buyers going to find this?
Random SEO tips from a quick look: clean up you heading hierarchy (start with H1, nest H2 - H5 appropriately; right now they're pretty random), add ALT text to all images (the ones with source code could get you more search hits for example), add a meta description and also add HTTPS (very important for security as well).
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#65This seems to be a book about unsing emscripten to get c/c++ to run in the browser. What if I want a book about writing wasm from scratch?
From scratch, what do you mean?
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#66Looks cool!
If I don't know any C++ (and never plan to) but am learning Rust, do you think there is value here? Or is really focusing on the C++ -> WASM experience?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like a pretty standard price for a non-fiction book to me..?
Not for a book of 75 pages. The price and the amount of content don't seem to be in balance.
Should you not set the price on the value of the content, not the amount content?
If the book enabled you to e.g. create and sell a WebAssembly project quicker or win a big client project that requires WebAssembly then $29 shouldn't be worth thinking about to most developers.
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#68Congratulations on shipping! You accomplished something that vanishingly few people do. You should be incredibly proud of yourself. Always Remember: the people on this site complaining about price are not your customers, and that’s ok. There are always people on this site that complain about price. When I launched my book and it got on here half the comments were about the price instead of the book itself. Ignore the…
Well here it’s more a self published pdf than a book. It didn’t pass a publisher screening nor got an ISBN so it’s hardly a "real" book.
If I remember correctly you can get an ISBN for any self published book without much hassle. I used to do a magazine with a friend and we self published with an edition of 100 for each issue. Getting the ISBN was easy.
Congratulations on writing a book, and don't let anyone tell you it's not a real book, just because you don't have a publisher or it didn't get printed yet!
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#69I'm getting your book - thank you. Also wanted to say I really like the site you have put together. Minimal yet everything there. Perfect.
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#70Congratulations on shipping! You accomplished something that vanishingly few people do. You should be incredibly proud of yourself. Always Remember: the people on this site complaining about price are not your customers, and that’s ok. There are always people on this site that complain about price. When I launched my book and it got on here half the comments were about the price instead of the book itself. Ignore the…
Well here it’s more a self published pdf than a book. It didn’t pass a publisher screening nor got an ISBN so it’s hardly a "real" book.
As a Canadian resident I get free ISBN's for the books I self publish. It takes about 2 minutes online to get one assigned.
In the US you just buy them