A Book Like Foo
Consumer and social
book recommendations
SHOW HN2020
30points
8comments
#1,387of 3,028 in 2020
Top 46%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Results feel shockingly accurate and clever.
From 2 comments
Hi HN! This app is backed by a graph db containing around 7 million book ratings/affections and 150k book titles published prior to 2020. A query requires at least two books to…
padolsey on HNClever. I felt like it started to lock in on my reading tastes only after I had 5 selections, but that is still a decent app. Also, I don't mind sites that make money from…
codingdave on HN
Affiliate monetization is done the right way.
From 1 comment
Clever. I felt like it started to lock in on my reading tastes only after I had 5 selections, but that is still a decent app. Also, I don't mind sites that make money from…
codingdave on HN
Objections
Needs five or more selections before recommendations lock in.
From 1 comment
Clever. I felt like it started to lock in on my reading tastes only after I had 5 selections, but that is still a decent app. Also, I don't mind sites that make money from…
codingdave on HN
Thumbnails don't load with an ad blocker enabled.
From 3 comments
This is nice :) I tried on Firefox and the thumbnails remain gray, I can only see them when I hover the title.
sgdpk on HNAhh, the site uses book images from Amazon's CDN so you may need to disable your ad blocker. I think that's what's happening.
padolsey on HNIndeed, I have an ad blocker. Thanks!
sgdpk on HN
Many well-known books are missing from the catalogue.
From 1 comment
There are so many good books it lacks... But still a really neat idea. Good work!
JohnMunsch on HN
Requests
Let users mark books as already read and hide them.
From 1 comment
I like it. As going through it though I had read so many in the list it provided. I see 6 is the maximum for a search, but it'd be useful to "neutralise" all the ones that have…
gbrhaz on HN
Save results, at least locally.
From 1 comment
Feature Request: Save the results, at least locally..
siddienahar on HN