Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
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Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#2This could be really useful in addition to the amazon reviews when book shopping. Looks clean, easy to use, and extremely responsive. Setting up an account to give it a test drive.
Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#3I like to keep track of the books I've read, but up til now I've just been using flat files stored hither and yon in various dark and unfindable corners of my hard drive. The system on bookhuddle is much, much nicer, themed lists integrated with the tagging system. I'm in the process of building up my lists. Tagging infrastructure makes this really easy, and in going through the process I've already come across (and tagged) several books that seem right up my alley. The ability to subscribe to other people's lists is key. Very cool app.
Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#4Hi,
Bookhuddle is a social network and book reference site created to help people discover, organize, and share book information. With Bookhuddle, members can:
* discover new books quickly and easily (new releases, top seller, most recommended, most listed, recommendations from friends, updates through activity feed, and more)
* organize and manage their reading lists and personal library
* share opinions through reviews, ratings, discussion, run or join a book club.
If you are a reader, Bookhuddle is for you.
Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#5Spam?
Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#6A while ago I tried out various facebook applications to list books, but none of them make it possible to organize reading lists and subsets of your collection, and so on. If you plan on making a bookhuddle Facebook app, I think that would be really useful to a lot of people.
Also, you may have added this already but RSS feeds for users' lists or for all activity from a user, would be a great addition to this site.
Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#7A while ago I tried out various facebook applications to list books, but none of them make it possible to organize reading lists and subsets of your collection, and so on. If you plan on making a bookhuddle Facebook app, I think that would be really useful to a lot of people. Also, you may have added this already but RSS feeds for users' lists or for all activity from a user, would be a great addition to this site.
That's in the plan. In the meantime, on Bookhuddle you can organize your books in lists such as read, reading, to read, favorite, and own, or create any number of lists to help you organize your books.
Thanks for the feedback.
Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#8Too much text on the home page.. most users will read only a few words if they don't know what the site is they'll leave.
p.s this niche has been done a few times I suggest letting users know right away why yours is better.
Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#91. Explain your product in one 7/8 words sentence or less. Cut that blue text and paragraph below it.
2. Give people an reason to upload photos. At your competitors site, I clicked on the pretty bookworm's pic.
3. Sort the pictures with a female bias (I'm guessing they're the target), rather than by "new members". You'll get more women and men.
4. Sort books by popularity of discussion rather than "newness". Draw people into the discussion.
5. The design doesn't feel friendly. Again, assuming women are your demographic make the site "warmer".
Goodreads is one competitor, how will you distinguish yourself?
Finding this problem was easy, implementing the solution the right way is much harder. Right on, with the FB integration.
Re: Discover, Organize, and Share books with Bookhuddle (A social networking and book-reference site)
#10Maybe you will not want my feedback.
I don't like the design on the front page. You need to redesign the front page by starting completely from scratch and thinking minimal. This site looks like it was a barge where you just kept piling on whatever would fit wherever until you had a full page to launch. Don't show 5 new member photos on the front page when members don't add photos. I really don't like the hyperlink blue color that is on text that isn't hyperlinked.
Look. I'm sorry. It looks like you worked hard on it. And I love reading. But, it's 2008. We're almost a decade into the 21st century. I want to be able to take a batch of picture of my books bar codes and upload them and have it generate the list of my books automatically. Then, I want to be able to rate my books, easily, like on netflix, and get new recommendations based on that, and a list of local friends that might have the same taste in books. I want to say what books I would loan out, and be able to trade and loan books locally with other people who like similar books. I want it to suggest people and reading for book clubs automatically and well. Like "There are 20 people in your area we think would like reading The Cat in the Hat. Would you be interested in joining with some of them to read this as a book club?" You just don't have anything that seems compelling to me.
This just seems like something out of the 20st century. It's the 21st century. Go eat some psychedelic mushrooms and lie back and absorb that we're a decade into the 21st century. Vision, people. Is this really the best you can bring to the 21st century? All human history happened so you could create the 20 things on that front page that distract each other for my divided attention? Where is the vision?