Hey, everyone.
Bookcelerator ranks the top books that will make you smarter by compiling upvotes from Product Hunt, reviews from Amazon and GoodReads, reading time etc. There are collections we made using Medium post by entrepreneurs and posts by Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur.com contributors.
I'm happy to let you know we use Fieldbook as a backend. It's real MVP, i know ;). Thanks @jasoncrawford for the service.
Would love to hear your thoughts!
Feel free to reach me out with personal questions at andy@bookcelerator.com. For example, if you want to make a collection we don't have yet.
Thank you @nivo0o0 for the hunt! There is a gif for you :)
Great book curation guys. I am pro covers. I think might increases engagement. The large tiles design is nice. Btw the like fb button appears to have this label: Подобається
I am pro cover but at this juncture I don't think it really matters. What I think should be the first step (really even before this soft launch) should have been a way to either purchase the book or add it on Goodreads. Right now it's a brightly colored list that bellies the real magic behind the scenes.
Meaning if I have to make a list myself of the list it's not super helpful. It wouldn't take much to link to the Goodreads page or even the book on Amazon no partnerships or API tie in required.
I think it's a good start and as an "alpha" i think you're on to something. I'd like to see more functionality before it's out there and asking users to try it. It's better to compete a phase then rush to market.
@andygorezkyi Agree on the part about goodreads / amazon! I naturally thought clicking the buttons for goodreads / amazon will lead me directly to the correct page. Don't mind about affiliate links either in general ;-)
@johnbhiggins yes, i know. It's our innovation in content discovery :D. Just kidding. We are going to make a book page in the next update. Thank you for a comment.
@andygorezkyi Thanks Andy. The product looks great! I like the idea of no covers. Maybe you should just add a tag which says "Covers". And unselecting that would bring it to the colors interface :)
Come here to leave another comment about book cover. Without cover everything look like it is undone. Also tried to click on every button under the book and on book itself. No reaction. I even can feel some irritation about this :D Are you going to add link to some store where I can buy a book? Where do you take information about most upvoted books on producthunt?
@ekaterina_kharitonova thanks. Let me comment: 1. Covers. We hear you, thanks. 2. Buttons uder books show information (see a gif below). 3. We are going to make a partnership with a book store, still working on it. 4. We use data from Product Hunt, but collect books we want to feature.
@andygorezkyi thanks for the answer! I see, but the cursor looks like I can to click on it, but when I click nothing happens. Looking forward to see your updates!
Nice idea, but why do I see the same books for a few times on the home page?
Also, the idea to skip covers seems good to me, if you want users to focus more on the content, not the cover design, but then such bright colors make no sense to me, as they get all my attention and at some point become a bit annoying.
Good luck with the product!
I absolutely love many of these books listed. I guess design wise, I sort of miss seeing the covers! Even if they were underlayed behind the colors... just my too cents. Also, how can we add too this list?
This is great, will definitely be coming back to this ! +1 for linking directly to goodreads or being able to add a title to my "To Read" list. A summary pulled in from goodreads would also be great to get some more context on what the book is about.
Cool stuff. Curious how you calculate your reading time. Traction book for example is 240 pages and it says 3.5 hours. Are you using 70~ pages an hour as a baseline? Could be easy to just put a basic input to put your own reading speed
I was looking for something like this! As a pretty voracious reader, I used to have to troll through Reddit, Goodreads and Amazon to get decent recommendations. This list is going to be very handy for me :D
Looks like the post-newsletter sign up screen is in Ukrainian?
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Перш, ніж підпишу вас, підтвердіть, що ви не скріпт :)
Not sure what that means but just wanted to call it out!
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