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Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by loosetypes »

nezaj wrote: post #12
aninuth wrote: post #7

This is really helpful, thank you! It's been mentioned before here, but what are your plans for privacy/monetization? Also (out of curiosity) where are you getting the book data from? It's pretty exhaustive and fast, but the only problem is that it doesn't prioritize the "real" version of the book (ie when I start typing Fahrenheit 451, the actual book is further down and stuff like the cliffnotes version or literary…

Hey Aninuth, co-creator Joe here! Thanks for all the comments. Will try to respond to all of them below 1) Privacy / Monetization: We're big believers that users should own their own data. We have no plans to sell your data to anyone. In terms of monetization, there are several approaches. We can add affiliate links to all books on bookshelves. We can build a freemium model. We can have authors promote books. The lis…

Interesting. How have you found the Google Books api so far?

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by stopachka »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #16

Great idea! But, I'm not going to give you MY content, for free, if you don't AT LEAST allow for my content, and the content of my peers on your website, to be in a format which is easy to export and edit. You know why? Because in a couple of years you will raise more money, and your VC will tell you that a subscription business is a great idea, you will follow him, and I will need to decide between paying you $X per…

Fair concern Simone,

For what it's worth -- we definitely plan on making it easy to export and delete your data. While this feature is on the way, you can always ping us, and we can send you a data structure of your data, or delete it.

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by stopachka »

loosetypes wrote: post #21
nezaj wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Aninuth, co-creator Joe here! Thanks for all the comments. Will try to respond to all of them below 1) Privacy / Monetization: We're big believers that users should own their own data. We have no plans to sell your data to anyone. In terms of monetization, there are several approaches. We can add affiliate links to all books on bookshelves. We can build a freemium model. We can have authors promote books. The lis…

Interesting. How have you found the Google Books api so far?

It's one of the best ones we've tried so far. The upsides: great content, easy API. The downsides: you need to ask permission to increase rate limits, and it doesn't have books that are only available on Amazon Kindle.

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by stopachka »

throw0932439 wrote: post #22

Looks interesting, but is there anyway to import books? I have everything on goodreads (which offers a csv export). No way I'm re-adding hundreds of books by hand.

Goodreads import is on the way! If you like, feel free to email us (stopa@js.ventures), and you'll be one of the first to try it!

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by nezaj »

byproxy wrote: post #17
stopachka wrote: post #2

Hey HN, We're Joe & Stopa, from https://zeneca.io . We're building the successor to Goodreads. For now, you can create public bookshelves (i.e https://zeneca.io/stopa ), discover like-minded readers, and share your favorite quotes and thoughts (i.e here's all I learned from PG: https://www.zeneca.io/stopa/details/shycAgAAQBAJ ) We left our jobs in June last year to build a company together (but we didn’t have an idea…

I dig the simplicity. Is there an email address to send feedback to? I don't use Twitter.

Heh noted to add an email contact to the page. In the meantime feel free to email me at joe@js.ventures — really appreciate the feedback :)

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by stopachka »

pronoiac wrote: post #23

Wow, it's going to take some work to get your name out from under the SEO shadow of AstraZeneca, and considering their COVID-19 vaccine, uh, I'd change my name.

We really like the name, so we are debating whether we should also make a COVID-19 vaccine, to have a fair shot with them xD

(Jokes aside, indeed, something we'll have to figure out soon)

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by dstaley »

I love this idea! One of the main use cases I would like to see would be sharing a direct link to a collection. It would be nice to be able to build a collection and link directly to just that collection. Additionally, having the ability to add a public description for each book in a collection would be really nice since you could use that to provide additional context.
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