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Show HN: I want to give people surprisingly awesome book recommendations

6 pointsby grokcodealmost 12 years ago

5 comments

DoubleClusteralmost 12 years ago
Why do I need to sign up? The &quot;You are just a few clicks away from...&quot; shows me that you don&#x27;t have my best interests in mind. Please let me pick three books, provide a recommendation and then offer me to create an account.<p>Now I&#x27;m going to close my browser, get some sleep and completely forget about your supposedly awesome book recommendations.
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aasaravaalmost 12 years ago
I&#x27;d like to see projects like this work, particularly because I haven&#x27;t always been pleased with the recommendations from Goodreads.<p>That said, your site&#x27;s going to need more information about why it&#x27;s any better before I sign up for an account. What genres do you cover? How wide is your database of books? Is it possible to offer a trial w&#x2F;o an account? E.g., enter some books and get recommendations -- and then ask if I want to create an account w&#x2F; these settings so I can continue to get more recommendations?
jleesalmost 12 years ago
I really like the idea of a more content-based approach to book discovery. It feels like a complex problem to me, since there are so many dimensions one could pivot on; and how to find them in the first place? As an example, I dislike first-person books even if they might seem like really good fits for the kinds of topics I read. There&#x27;s also a clustering issue around &quot;well, I like sappy space opera when I&#x27;m on vacation but more cerebral fantasy epics on the train&quot;. But good luck with solving that.
rastasheepalmost 12 years ago
Where we can see how&#x27;s your service different from other recommendation services (there are a lot of it nowadays) and why it&#x27;s better ?
loxalmost 12 years ago
I got a CSRF verification failure on signup.
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