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Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

_threads wrote: post #8
steven_pack wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the suggestion! Glad to know I wasn't the only one that a page a day appealed to! If you sign up, the footer of each email does actually have: - Request another page - Manage - Unsubscribe And under Manage, you can pause, skip ahead or back etc. I decided to hold off on any features until I saw if folks actually enjoyed consuming content this way.

I think just basic reply commands might be cool like : « next », « next 3 » to get 3 pages at once ... I wanted to do this with with sms or messenger or WhatsApp bots

I like that, especially a chunk of pages.

SMS/WhatsApp would be a cinch, the APIs look similar to email sending APIs. It's on my backlog, but I never actually really answered the question of why you'd want that? When would you prefer an SMS/WhatsApp message over an email? The biggest complaint folks have is around lack of context for a single page, which would be exacerbated by an even shorter text message?

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

happy_path wrote: post #17

Great idea. Subscription does not work for me at the moment but I really like it. Only thing I would suggest is showing some categories with several (3-4) books in each.

. A "bookshelves" page to highlight good suggestions and moving the search up to the top are high on the list, but I'd got to the point I needed some real user feedback to get fired up to spend some more time on it.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

Insanity wrote: post #28

Kudos on the idea but I don't really see this being useful. Reading one page at a time, you'd just end up losing all context.

I've heard that, but I don't find it to be true. For me at least, one page per day keeps me connected.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

erikig wrote: post #39
equalunique wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the reward neurotransmitter was dopamine. Aren't endorphins for pain?

Yep, those endorphins will mask the sweet pain of having 87 pages unread and knowing that number will keep growing ceaselessly until it is just another unread copy of the book in your inbox.

Or you could click unsubscribe in the email.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

osrec wrote: post #29

Interesting idea. Btw, the look and feel of the landing page is similar to stripe's. Did you model it on that?

No, but it's a template: https://www.creative-tim.com/product/vue-argon-design-system

Shout out to the designer of that. The had a Vue version with components and it was super easy to modify. Templates have come a long way.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

Raphmedia wrote: post #37
steven_pack wrote: post #2

Maker here. AMA! Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi! You should take a look at https://mjml.io/ (not a service I am associated with, simply one of the easiest to use) and make a responsive email template for your service. If you have a contact somewhere, I'd be willing to help you out with that if you need assistance.

Yeah the email needs design love. Sure, I'd love to hear from you at steve at notimeforbooks

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

lawlorino wrote: post #10

This looks pretty cool, congratulations! I was wondering how you set up your email server to get around the automatic filtering a lot of email providers use on the user end. For example, I think Gmail automatically filters anything from a known AWS IP address.

It just uses the SendGrid API, I don't run the email server. They have a 100 emails per day on the free plan and while it goes to Updates or Promotions on Gmail, it doesn't get spammed (at least so far).

If it becomes popular, I'd have to upgrade the plan and then you start getting servers with better IP reputations anyway.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

BlackLotus89 wrote: post #16

Tried the man who folded himsel, the time machine and some others but got no hits. I hope my taste is not too bad or that I'm blind...

It has to be public domain (and on Project Gutenberg), which typically means real old. The first book you mentioned is from 1974, so would still be in copyright.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by whytaka »

I think this is a great idea but I echo the critique that a single page isn’t enough.

How about if one were to be able to set their own pace? Many blog sites have those “5minute read” things that naively just count the words or lines and map it to some average reading speed. Maybe even have a tool that measures your reading speed and then let users configure how many minutes of reading they want to allot.

Another possibility is to send an email that gives you time options instead. The email will consist of several button links (5, 10, 15min) and then each button will take you to a server side rendered page that has the allotted amount with a Done button at the end to bookmark the position.

Just some ideas. I would definitely sign up if it wasn’t just one page for sure!

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