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Like 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?
Your 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?
Looks 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.
This 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. :-(
1) I had very similar idea, How are you planning to monetize it ? 2) 10 years back I made a similar site using manuals online.com, 3) did you look at react-pdf ?
Hello, it looks nice but have a look https://manualsbrain.com/en/ it's bigger and grows
Amazing, bookmarked. Where did you get all of them from, and is there a way of contributing manuals?
This 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 - w…
Like 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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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.
Well however he did, I do not see his responses after posting it here. Is it even legal to scrape all these manuals from other sites?