Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

zeneca.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 56 posts

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

#41

Post by HenryBemis »

stopachka wrote: post #24
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.

I did mention GDPR in another comment. Data extraction/portability is a 'thing' in GDPR.

There is a website that has the same function, but for movies. Apologies I cannot remember the name. Similar funciton. You record the titles of the movies you watched.

Thinking about this again (and this is why in my other comment I ask "who pays for this/how is that paid for"; this would be goldmine for Amazon, B&N, and other players.

We also know that "FBI checking out Americans' reading habits / Bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants" (https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Ame...)

No more needs for warrants!! :)

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

#42

Post by nezaj »

HenryBemis wrote: post #40
nezaj wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Co-creator Joe here! Thanks for all the questions! Will try to address each one point by point below 1) Initially we went with magic links because we thought that would be a better UX. It's been surprising and amusing to see how much feedback we get on this. We hear you loud and clear and will budget some time to move auth from magic links to passwords / o-auth 2) Privacy settings make sense! We'll be baking this in…

Thank you Joe. One thought I had (disclaimer: I am not looking for a date!!!!)(for now!). I also see this as an opportunity to "meet like-minded people in your area". I remember back in the day where ICQ had a 'search' mode. Imagine I can pick 10 books that someone (m/f/...) has read in my area. I am not suggesting your make this a dating site, but for introverts/avid readers it wouldn't surprise me if people would b…

We have indeed been hearing people ask for self-reporting gender and location! And indeed books are a great way to connect with others. Thanks for the feedback, we're taking note! Please feel free to share more ideas :)

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

#43

Post by nezaj »

gnicholas wrote: post #33

Just skimmed through the website and it looks like a good idea. I’d recommend spell/grammar-checking the copy. People who love books are more likely to notice these sorts of things.

Took another pass and made some fixes -- thanks for pointing this out!

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

#45

Post by fakedang »

stopachka wrote: post #29
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)

How about Cizero? /s

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

#46

Post by geoah »

Congrats on the launch!

Some comments/requests/suggestions (from a goodreads user):

* For me the main benefit of goodreads is their book suggestions. From what I can tell it's pretty naive but being able to see suggestions that I might enjoy based on my reading history, and also being able to see suggested books based on a single book or author is amazing.

* Read dates (and support for multiple read throughs) would be important to make the move from goodreads.

* Shelfs are nice but it's not clear what they are meant to be used for. I probably would create shelfs for the different genres I read, but then I'm missing a way to split the books in want-to-read/read/reading/gave-up.

* The shelf ui is pretty but not very useful. An option for a grid with filters or search would be nice.

* A good API would be AMAZING. More than amazing actually.

* Monetisation wise, affiliate link to amazon should be a good first way to keep you interested in improving zeneca. I'd say just add it.

* Public roadmap would be great with a way to subscribe for monthly feature updates or something.

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

#47

Post by geoah »

geoah wrote: post #46

Congrats on the launch! Some comments/requests/suggestions (from a goodreads user): * For me the main benefit of goodreads is their book suggestions. From what I can tell it's pretty naive but being able to see suggestions that I might enjoy based on my reading history, and also being able to see suggested books based on a single book or author is amazing. * Read dates (and support for multiple read throughs) would b…

Also, was looking at the PUT /library request being made when you add a book. The body looks really weird, is that some weird framework?

["^ ","~:shelves",[["^ ","~:desc","","~:name","Science Fiction","~:books",[["^ ","~:id", ...

edit: apparently this is "transit JSON" https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

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

#48

Post by HenryBemis »

nezaj wrote: post #42
HenryBemis wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you Joe. One thought I had (disclaimer: I am not looking for a date!!!!)(for now!). I also see this as an opportunity to "meet like-minded people in your area". I remember back in the day where ICQ had a 'search' mode. Imagine I can pick 10 books that someone (m/f/...) has read in my area. I am not suggesting your make this a dating site, but for introverts/avid readers it wouldn't surprise me if people would b…

We have indeed been hearing people ask for self-reporting gender and location! And indeed books are a great way to connect with others. Thanks for the feedback, we're taking note! Please feel free to share more ideas :)

"Delete account" please (no sneaky deactivations)(GDPR right to be forgotten applies for you as well). Oh, and make it easy please.

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

#49

Post by riezebos »

Nice work! This looks like an interesting product.

I was trying to create a bookshelf with a bunch of books I liked. I have a strong aversion to manual work, and didn't want to continue after a few books because it took multiple seconds to add a book. In case you are interested in users like me this might help:

- Allow selecting multiple books in 1 search results - Don't show books that are already in the shelf in the search results - Make the search prompt blazing fast so that there is no waiting between multiple books - This is a bit far fetched but if I could enter a list of books and the best matching results would be added automatically that would be very cool

Also I think something goes wrong if you change the name of 1 shelf into a name which is already the name of another shelf. (I was adding books to the wrong shelf and wanted to switch the names, I think the shelves got linked somehow)

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

#50

Post by stopachka »

HenryBemis wrote: post #48
nezaj wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have indeed been hearing people ask for self-reporting gender and location! And indeed books are a great way to connect with others. Thanks for the feedback, we're taking note! Please feel free to share more ideas :)

"Delete account" please (no sneaky deactivations)(GDPR right to be forgotten applies for you as well). Oh, and make it easy please.

!00% : )
Post reply on HN