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Re: Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online

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Post by wrath »

Great job! Not many people at your age can create their own products.

Many people here post un-productive comments and are very harsh but there's usually some truth being them. My advice to you is to take all the advice you "want" and build upon that. It takes a long time in order for you to get it "right" so keep changing things until it sticks.

Have you tried using Amazon as your search engine for ISBNs? From experience it is very accurate and complete. You can scrape using a URL like this: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?field-keywords=034551...

Re: Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online

#32

Post by egypturnash »

This sure is a lot more Bootstrap-slick than LibraryThing.

And a lot pricier. LibraryThing is US$10/year, or $25 for a lifetime membership. Libramatic is US$6.50/mo for 1000 books, or $40/mo for unlimited books/users. I presume your target market is libraries, rather than individual users, with prices like that.

Re: Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online

#34

Post by wukerplank »

wrath wrote: post #31

Great job! Not many people at your age can create their own products. Many people here post un-productive comments and are very harsh but there's usually some truth being them. My advice to you is to take all the advice you "want" and build upon that. It takes a long time in order for you to get it "right" so keep changing things until it sticks. Have you tried using Amazon as your search engine for ISBNs? From exper…

I don't think the Amazon TOS let you use their API on mobile devices. That's why we don't have Delicious Library on our mobile devices.

Re: Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online

#35

Post by Mithaldu »

Why the hell would you limit this to only Apple machines, when literally every smartphone, and most laptops have an integrated camera?

Also, because you've already not managed to impress me with competence: What exactly is your user password storage algorithm?

Re: Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online

#36

Post by jami »

I don't know how many other people track their book collection this way, but the ability to import a Goodreads shelf would be useful to me. I have an "own" shelf on Goodreads to track what I have in my home/Kindle. A one-click import would save me a lot of redundant bar code scanning. Documentation for the relevant Goodreads API call: http://www.goodreads.com/api#reviews.list

Re: Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online

#37

Post by gngeal »

wukerplank wrote: post #34
wrath wrote: post #31

Great job! Not many people at your age can create their own products. Many people here post un-productive comments and are very harsh but there's usually some truth being them. My advice to you is to take all the advice you "want" and build upon that. It takes a long time in order for you to get it "right" so keep changing things until it sticks. Have you tried using Amazon as your search engine for ISBNs? From exper…

I don't think the Amazon TOS let you use their API on mobile devices. That's why we don't have Delicious Library on our mobile devices.

Does that mean that you're not allowed to view the page on your mobile device either? Is that supposed to be some sort of a silly artificial restriction?

Re: Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online

#38

Post by gngeal »

DanBC wrote: post #15

A couple of typos: > Libramatic retrieves book information such as it's cover art, title, author, publisher and an even abstract automatically based just on it's ISBN code. Both its here should be its, not it's. This is something that will make large portions of your target audience twitch. Is my data exportable? If I sign up for a month, and scan all my books in, can I then take my data and not pay anymore? How did…

This is something that will make large portions of your target audience twitch.

Exactly, this is for literrate people!

Re: Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online

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Post by gngeal »

Mithaldu wrote: post #35

Why the hell would you limit this to only Apple machines, when literally every smartphone, and most laptops have an integrated camera? Also, because you've already not managed to impress me with competence: What exactly is your user password storage algorithm?

The page says "Libramatic runs on multiple platforms including Android devices and any internet-enabled computer".
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