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Hi all, I’m releasing a book highlight and social network for book lovers - https://www.bookfeed.co/ It is an free app-only platform with the ability to easily organize highlights, manage book lists, send retention reminders, queue books via twitter bot, and follow friends and their book activities. I will really appreciate if you will give it try and give feedback if you find this useful. Thanks
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@limited-mechanic-71085 any change that you have a webapp that works on a browser in the pipleine. I am used to using goodreads on my computer and was looking for something better for a while
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Hi @purple-animal-84963 we don’t have a website for it for now. We may not have it at all. We have in app highlighting using camera. Hence it is a phone/tablet only app. Sorry about that Please give app a try and would love to add any missing features based on your feedback
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ah, ok. I'll try it out my iPad. Will let you know how it goes. I have been using goodreads a lot for a while now, however the user experience just sucks big time there. I have been thinking of making something for myself with a few features that I want. I'll give this a shot and see if it works for me
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What features do you like the most about goodreads ?
Do you highlight or take notes in books ?
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Other users tell us that they love this highlighting feature in our app.
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With goodreads, there are a couple of things I like, one is the reviews itself, the top quotes, the "Readers Also enjoyed" links, the similar genres tab, about the author, your year in books, the reading challenge, the stats from the last year
what I don't like is one their rereading and organizing into shelves experience sucks, if I find a new books which I might want to read someday, there is no way to add a small note on it as to why I added it to my self and down the line it is hard to remember why it is on my to-read list
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I see. We show similar books for all books. We’re yet to add the other features
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I do take notes and highlights, on the kindle I like the fact that they directly sync with goodreads, though I mostly use the amazon page to check the highlights
I mostly use this with any book I am reading https://davidseah.com/node/the-fast-book-outliner/
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The point about book note for list addition is great feedback. We’ll incorporate that
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so this makes it easier to digitize the notes and highlights at the end of the book
also, more than similar books, I like this
it helps me find more books better
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Right. We support kindle import. But we are yet to real time sync for all kindle data
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also, any kind of sorting a list sucks big time for goodreads
I'll try out your app and let you know how I like it
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What does the users mean above ?
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"users" is the number of people who have added that to one of their shelves
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It doesn’t have all the pet peeves of yours. But that is great feedback. My product roadmap suddenly has like 10 new items 😀
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you can check it out on the right side of any book on goodreads
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Got it
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yeah, a lot of the features might just be centered around how I read and organize the books I read
so I really wont expect you to add it to your features
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Do you twitter at all ?
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I am on twitter, but I mostly just listen, I dont post
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If you do we have a nlp twitter bot
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It automatically recognizes book titles in tweets and saves to your bookfeed profile
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thats a really nice feature
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It has gotten decently intelligent over time and can recognize quite a lot
I kept saving tweets to save book titles and needed a better way
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ah ok, I pretty much keep adding books to amazon or goodreads lists and sort them later
if that bot say could add a comment of the book with the title, that would be really good too
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Definitely going to add that
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I usually take those notes on evernote and just keep them in a seperate section
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I see. Ok
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one thing that I have been thinking about is integrating goodreads with a public facing notes webpage about books. Just a personal project. Something which is a mix of https://www.gwern.net/Book-reviews and https://sivers.org/book
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I heard a lot of people do that
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right now all of my notes just sit in evernote at the end, but that is just too manual of a process
quick question, are you doing this as a side project, or do you plan to have this as a full fledged project someday
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If it becomes big then full time
But definitely going to keep it around for a long long time
Getting decent traction so far
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ah, ok. All the best for that. I really think there is a lot of scope with this
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Thanks
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the closest we have to this is goodreads, and even though its from amazon, it gets a lot of hate
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So if you offer a cleaner website it will be better ?
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more than a cleaner website I think its the features
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I want to but just time constraints
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have you read the hate goodreads gets on hackernews
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Right
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you might be able to find a lot of features there
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Yes
That has been my motivation
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yeah, maybe add things to your list and slowly work through them as you get the time
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Right
Great chatting with you Karan. You’re a engg I assume
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yeah
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This is project is also my only chance to code 😀
I run Data Engg org at Adobe and get zero chance to code at work
So this is my favorite nights and weekend activity
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interesting
my motivations have been similar. I am mainly a hardware engineer, and am more comfortable writing scripts. I kindoff have been working on my own version of goodreads as a way to learn web-stuff. I have a lot of scripts cobbled up which do specific things, but this project seemed like an interesting way to learn the frontend and UI/UX
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I see. I’m mainly a backend guy. My friend does front end app work.
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