Show HN: Manuzoid – Database of More Than 1M Manuals
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#2Your privacy policy mentions fixlib.com which appears to be up for sale.
Curious: how did you get hold of all the manuals, and hope did you process them all?
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#3This is very cool and useful, will be bookmarking for sure. Some of the websites you come across when googling manuals are... less than reputable.
My first suggestion after browsing around for a while is that you need a better embedded PDF viewer. Some manuals are not readable at all[0], it would be cool if we could zoom in. It's especially disappointing because of the huge amount of wasted space in the main pane - why is there a huge light-blue border around the content I want to see?
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#4Looks very cool! A couple things however that I noticed. There seem to be a lot of duplicates which clutter the search results. Also, the first thing I looked for was available, but the correct result didn't appear until the second page.
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#5i'll remember this website. Until now, i'm finding ifixit is a fantastic resource, but i'm always eager to expand my list.
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#6Amazing, bookmarked.
Where did you get all of them from, and is there a way of contributing manuals?
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#7Like any other comment, I will ask the same. How did you get 1 million manuals? Show HN is for small projects usually. Can you tell us or tell us a range you paid for the 1 million manuals?
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#8Suggestion: allow a list as an alternative to (or maybe even instead of) a gallery.
Too many titles start with the same text, and the gallery doesn't allow the user to see the full title except with a (slow or non-existent, depending on the platform) mouseover.
Update: I see that the dedicated brand pages are more useful than general search results, but it's very hard to navigate the list of brands (although obviously you can go directly to a brand by typing your own URL).
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#9Like any other comment, I will ask the same. How did you get 1 million manuals? Show HN is for small projects usually. Can you tell us or tell us a range you paid for the 1 million manuals?
I would guess scraping other sites and trying to do a credible job of cleaning up mis-labeled files, fixing meta-data, sorting them in a reasonable taxonomy, etc.
There's a lot of terrible sites like this that either have bad data, bad navigation/taxonomy, overladen with ads, or try to force their viewer versus allowing a pdf download, etc. This site, after a quick once-over, seems pretty nice on all those counts.
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#10This is less spammy than most of these databases, but please remove the captcha on “download pdf”.
Also, the first (and only) manual I tried gave a 404 after I solved the captcha. :-(