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Re: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

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Post by drusepth »

I'm not really interested in the social network aspect of Goodreads or Goodreads-likes, so I probably personally won't be using this -- but I do hope it succeeds. It's always nice to have more competitors in the space to drive innovation and new features, and we all know Goodreads could use some motivation!

As a side note though, I really hate the magic link sign-up paradigm (no password allowed). I know I'm not the actual audience here (although I am a huge reader), but if I were to use this I'd definitely want something more convenient than having to log in through email every time.

Re: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

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Post by uo21tp5hoyg »

Luckily I signed up with fake data as it seems your profile search api returns full profile data not just data to be displayed, which includes the users full email address and whatever a stream token is. As far as I can tell there's no indication that this data is intended to be leaked.

I'm also not a fan of the raw queries to google, moving my data away from amazon and on to google doesn't seem like a step up.

Re: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

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Post by citizenkeen »

randomcatuser wrote: post #59
hombre_fatal wrote: post #18

I once was part of a now-defunct reading forum in my teens. On the forum, people would package three related books into quests. A boring example would be a dystopian quest pack with three books about three very different dystopian scenarios. But the quests people put together were usually more interesting. I remember a "Weird Magic" quest had books with really unconventional magic systems. I found Motherless Brooklyn…

Oh this is so neat!! Thanks for the idea Anyone want this? Can have it up in March

This sounds amazing.

Re: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

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Post by shreyshnaccount »

randomcatuser wrote: post #59
hombre_fatal wrote: post #18

I once was part of a now-defunct reading forum in my teens. On the forum, people would package three related books into quests. A boring example would be a dystopian quest pack with three books about three very different dystopian scenarios. But the quests people put together were usually more interesting. I remember a "Weird Magic" quest had books with really unconventional magic systems. I found Motherless Brooklyn…

Oh this is so neat!! Thanks for the idea Anyone want this? Can have it up in March

I'm making this, but for podcasts!

Re: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

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Post by costcofries »

drusepth wrote: post #149
paxys wrote: post #14

This is great but I'm not going to sign up just to see what the site looks like. There's no reason for a large part of the functionality (book info, ratings, reviews) to be behind a login wall. As it stands right now Goodreads is a lot more open.

I signed up. This is what the site looks like: * Dashboard/feed: https://i.imgur.com/bUGZX27.png * Book page (from search): https://i.imgur.com/9BQK7hF.png * Bookshelves (adding a book is just a modal on this page): https://i.imgur.com/sHzorJE.png * "Community": https://i.imgur.com/nzI9FNZ.png * Profile: https://i.imgur.com/kcxitYb.png There isn't a lot of content to showcase, but the screenshots on the homepage (at…

Take my upvote :)

Re: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

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Post by booksforthewise »

randomcatuser wrote: post #59
hombre_fatal wrote: post #18

I once was part of a now-defunct reading forum in my teens. On the forum, people would package three related books into quests. A boring example would be a dystopian quest pack with three books about three very different dystopian scenarios. But the quests people put together were usually more interesting. I remember a "Weird Magic" quest had books with really unconventional magic systems. I found Motherless Brooklyn…

Oh this is so neat!! Thanks for the idea Anyone want this? Can have it up in March

Awesome, let's connect. I'm actually building a community app for book readers as well that helps with book discovery and connecting readers. Would love to see what we can do together.

Here's my email: booksforthewise@yahoo.com

And our Instagram where we're building our community (over 50k+ book readers) instagram.com/booksforthewise

-Jeff

Re: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

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Post by booksforthewise »

hsndmoose wrote: post #74
randomcatuser wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh this is so neat!! Thanks for the idea Anyone want this? Can have it up in March

Lmk if you want contributors, I was looking at building something like this as well.

Hey, would love to connect. I'm actually building a community app for book readers as well that helps with book discovery and connecting readers.

Here's my email: booksforthewise@yahoo.com

Our Instagram where we're building our community (over 50k+ book readers) instagram.com/booksforthewise

-Jeff

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