Read A Story To Me
Consumer and social
video calls for reading to children
SHOW HN2020
185points
57comments
#308of 3,028 in 2020
Top 11%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea that makes a difference for separated families
From 3 comments
This is wonderful. Truly one of those 'make a difference' kind of projects! Kudos.
zoom6628 on HNI just wanted to personally thank you for making this. My 7yr old and his grandparents in NYC are LOVING this. Please keep uploading more great books to the library!
artur_makly on HNSuch a cool idea!
anymane on HN
Useful for teachers and remote learning
From 2 comments
This is so cool, My mom is a school teacher, and the school is trying to get her to make videos for her students. She struggles with video editing software to make videos. This…
mataug on HNNice app. It could also be used to help the medical students who's exams have all been cancelled. I would like to help if this is open-sourced. One feature request: my Microsoft…
hoomank3 on HN
Objections
Page display was too small to read on desktop
From 1 comment
So I tried again and it seems to be working this time. But the page of the book is ~240x190px and I can't read a darn thing.
war1025 on HN
Would not load initially for one user
From 1 comment
I just tried this and couldn't get anything to load (Firefox). Maybe I'm just doing something wrong? Didn't see any errors in the console
war1025 on HN
Layout misaligned on iPhone landscape
From 1 comment
Very nice. Testing on my iPhone 6s landscape, I noticed the prev and next buttons were not aligned with the book page. I also created a similar tool a few weeks ago available for…
ldenoue on HN
Requests
Open source the project
From 4 comments
Awesome idea, and nice work! Is this open source, and if so, would you mind sharing a link to it? I am beginning work on a slightly similar project [1] to help facilitate speech…
scott113341 on HN+1 for open source, I like Phoenix and it would be great to improve my knowledge from an example like this.
fareesh on HNPlease consider open sourcing it. You cannot begin to imagine how beneficial it is to study or even encounter working examples online.
oyebenny on HNNice app. It could also be used to help the medical students who's exams have all been cancelled. I would like to help if this is open-sourced. One feature request: my Microsoft…
hoomank3 on HN
Add interactive drawing or stickers on pages
From 1 comment
Thanks for sharing! It such a great idea :-) Talking with my wife (SLP) she observed how important is interactive reading and I was wondering if you had that planned or if open…
_benj on HN
Choose camera when multiple are available
From 1 comment
Nice app. It could also be used to help the medical students who's exams have all been cancelled. I would like to help if this is open-sourced. One feature request: my Microsoft…
hoomank3 on HN
Add more books
From 1 comment
This looks really cool! I only see 7 books in the bookshelf. Are you planning to add more?
tagolli on HN
Questions
Is it open source?
From 1 comment
Awesome idea, and nice work! Is this open source, and if so, would you mind sharing a link to it? I am beginning work on a slightly similar project [1] to help facilitate speech…
scott113341 on HN
Are the books licensed for use?
From 1 comment
Are these 7 books on public domain? Dont you have to run through buying rights or something to use books written by others?
seige on HN
Alternatives named
Caribu
From 2 comments
This feels a lot like Caribu app https://caribu.com/
brianforde on HNCaribu is an app in this space as well. Essentially video calls with sync’ed storybooks.
sshah1983 on HN
YouTube
From 1 comment
Wouldn't YouTube suffice for that?
amelius on HN
My Picture Books app
From 1 comment
I created an app that allows you to do that. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.juliushuijnk.tools.mypicturebooks You create a book in the app by taking pictures.…
juliushuijnk on HN
Book Cafe on appblit
From 1 comment
Very nice. Testing on my iPhone 6s landscape, I noticed the prev and next buttons were not aligned with the book page. I also created a similar tool a few weeks ago available for…
ldenoue on HN