How does this compare to https://www.thestorygraph.com/ ?
Came here to say this - the Story Graph is fantastic and highly recommended.
Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
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#22Where are you sourcing book metadata? If this site takes off, you'll need a moderation strategy. Goodreads has been plagued by extortionary negative reviews. https://www.npr.org/2023/12/17/1219599404/goodreads-review-b...
I just assume all reviews are lying unless I know the reviewer or have validated their past reviews. I don't know why these sites don't lean into the social angle and weight reviews by social-graph distance. This certainly doesn't mean you have to HIDE the public reviews by unknown people.... just give an incentive to give input at what sort of reviews you want.
Yeah, reviews are inherently social. I’m waiting for someone to build a review platform on top of ATProto (bluesky).
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#23> 10-star rating system (More nuance than 5 stars) Does one really get anything meaningful out of saying this was a 6-star book vs a 7-star book? Personally I think 4 levels is sufficient. Either it's rather bad, not bad but not good, good but not great or it's great. Anything beyond that will have to be written in words.
I could see "proportion of 10s" vs "proportion of 5s" (the max score in either case) being meaningful.
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#25Your site is down. What is the starter kit for sharing your website here with it exploding?
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#26> 10-star rating system (More nuance than 5 stars) Does one really get anything meaningful out of saying this was a 6-star book vs a 7-star book? Personally I think 4 levels is sufficient. Either it's rather bad, not bad but not good, good but not great or it's great. Anything beyond that will have to be written in words.
Rating is a mess. Still I think people are used to express their opinions on a 0-10 scale, and they will appreciate if they can just keep doing that.
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#27Where are you sourcing book metadata? If this site takes off, you'll need a moderation strategy. Goodreads has been plagued by extortionary negative reviews. https://www.npr.org/2023/12/17/1219599404/goodreads-review-b...
I just assume all reviews are lying unless I know the reviewer or have validated their past reviews. I don't know why these sites don't lean into the social angle and weight reviews by social-graph distance. This certainly doesn't mean you have to HIDE the public reviews by unknown people.... just give an incentive to give input at what sort of reviews you want.
> I don't know why these sites don't lean into the social angle and weight reviews by social-graph distance.
Goodreads does that though. Reviews from friends and people you follow are shown first
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#28I'm curious about the origin of the name. Kaguya-hime no monogatari? Kaguya-sama?
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#29I like it. Very clean UI. I don't think "UI still looks like it's from 2005." is a bad thing (nor do I know if that's true). I'm working on importing my library from a simple checklist app I made years ago. I posted one review. Any idea why The Metabarons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabarons ) isn't in the library? I guess comic books aren't in the data source.
Yeah, we don't have comics and graphic novels currently. I wanted to keep it simple for launch.
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#30I don't mind a goodreads alternative, but regarding the UI from 2005, I am not sure I care. It works and people are used to it. I am not a supporter of "let's try build a new interface using shiny new technology" for the sake of new .
Arguably 2005 was a high water mark for UIs. That was when people were still focused on "human interface design" and hadn't adopted the A/B "revealed preference" nonsense.