bookclub

bookclub

build your digital bookshelf

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The first app built for book clubs and collectively curated by book clubs.For the first time ever, you and your club members can build a shared, private bookshelf that puts meeting details, RVSPs, discussion questions, book info, book club ratings and Amazon & iBooks links for your books at your fingertips--and sends automatic, customizable book club reminder emails to your members
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Jordan Gonen
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Hi PH 👋We're really excited to be launching "bookclub profiles" today 📚 Profiles are simple and seamless. Check out mine: http://www.bookclub.cool/@jordan... This is just the first page of a long roadmap we have ahead (stats, communities, feeds, etc.) but we would love to hear what you think about "square one." 1 - Would be awesome if you could create an account and comment/share it! We'll be featuring/sharing profiles across social. (@joinbookclub) 2 - What do you want to see next? In tackling such an obvious opportunity, we are overwhelmed with ideas. Infinite things to build. What do you see as the most important next step in building out bookclub? Thanks for the support! 😻 (as a small disclaimer, we earn revenue as partners of the Amazon Affiliate Program). Whose profile would you like to see? Tag them on twitter/social!
Cenk
Citationsy
@jrdngonen Hi there! I have some quick feedback: I wish I could choose a specific edition of the book, like on GoodReads, to make it actually match my bookshelf.
Jordan Gonen
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@cenk Ah, good point! Right now we are using the Amazon Product API to query. Will look into making more refined. Thanks!
Stephen Chip
Cruise.me
@cenk @jrdngonen Maybe add a thumbnail next to the dropdown list that appears when you type. Had a similar issue. Also, If you select a book, and it's the wrong one or edition, it would be nice to initiate a new search from the pop up modal versus closing and clicking +add book again.
Jordan Gonen
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@cenk @stephenchip Good fix! Definitely looking into :)
Jacob Schein
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@cenk @jrdngonen @stephenchip Thanks for the feedback, Stephen! Quickly implemented a "back to search" button and will definitely look into thumbnails as well.
Girl Alex
First Round
YAY. Congrats on the launch guys!! Excited to see a Goodreads competitor finally emergeee Few initial thoughts: 1. I would love the ability to import my library from a CSV! (like most people...probably from Goodreads) 2. The view I get is "my library". How are you guys thinking social will play into this? 3. Organization: love the shelves by stars, will there be options to choose how we can organize books? Goodreads uses bookshelves, but there are definitely cooler ways to do it. I've always thought it could be cool to create collections of books you've read as a response to prompts that are relatable to life. could be serious or even funny... - on the serious side for ex: "What books would you recommend to someone struggling with decisions about the future" - or get way more playful with it: "A 19 year old girl is stuck in a bus with her sorority sisters after going through a bad breakup and really just wants to be entertained but also understood" 😂 4. Any plan for sharing quotes or favorite takeaway messages?
Jordan Gonen
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@grlalx thanks for the feedback and appreciate the support! I'll do my best to answer your Q's but this is still very much a WIP. 1 - Agreed! This is a popular request : ) 2 - We are definitely still figuring it out. A few ideas: - "clubs/communities" - find people reading things you read - feed 3 - Agreed. Originally, we thought of our product as a "book list creator." We see that as a potential next step (around different types of list you can create." 4 - For now, we are focused on "what you read" but perhaps soon! Thanks for the questions/tips :)
ahounou khaled

Hi @jrdngonen !

Some suggestions :

1- Give directly focus on the input zone when adding new books. It's tiring to drag the mouse in again and again

2- Find some inventive way to add new books. Here are some suggestions :

*add books from previous platforms: Amazon reading list, Goodreads...

*make possible to choose tag about authors and categories and books should appear and you have just to check them with check button to add them all at once (add single book each time is tiring)

3-make possible to organize books by collections and each collection can be assigned to a knowledge tree. So people who have read a lot of books can easily guide newcomers to where to start and the path to go to become master in a domain.

4-add notes or badge to users whose collections or knowledge tree are shared the most and who respond to newcomers in the domains their knowledge trees are about. A system like Wikipedia or StackOverflow

*help the collection and knowledge trees owners demonstrate their expertise by making periodic quiz and challenges about their domains (you can guess by the kind of book they read)

5- Find a way to bring already successful authors (for eg: by creating a profile for them they can claim later) and make possible to people to interact with them by asking questions about their books

6- Business model suggestion: Use data about collections and knowledge trees accessed by users to advertise newly released books to a specific target.

7- Use renowned expert in some domain (eg: Bill Gates, Marc Zuck, Steve Blank, Sean Ellis...) create a profile for them and import their read books to apply when possible the above suggestions

8- a last but not urging thing to add: make possible to add a comment about a book and half-start for more specific notes about books

That's all for now. If I find something new, will edit and update this post

Pros:

I love the design. It's clean and easy to use.

Cons:

See below

Jared Zoneraich
Love this! Beautifully designed and great way to keep track of the books I'm reading.
Jordan Gonen
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Alex Banaga
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Product Pearson
Great design and that, but missing a lot of features that makes GoodReads useful. Seems like the primary focus at the moment is Amazon commission.
Jordan Gonen
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@productpearson hey! thanks for the feedback. We are definitely shipping the v1 of this product to get as much feedback as possible early on. We also wanted to test our revenue model (and see if it aligned well with users). What features do you think we should work on next? What are most useful?
Product Pearson
@jrdngonen It's defo the best monetisation method, it's just it took me about 3 seconds before I got the big "Buy on amazon" button, which made it feel like it was the primary focus over other features, that's all. but I totally understand it's v1. I think the shelves are the key one, to mark what I am currently reading, what I want to read in the future and what I've already read. Gamifying it would be my choice, challenges for how many words you can read (if an API can share word counts in books for example), or maybe page counts. Monthly challenge to read not just a certain amount of books, but pages etc. People do the challenges on Goodreads but read short ebooks etc to meet the target, whereas page count challenges would actually be much harder and "challenging!". The risk you have with this platform is people will come on once in a while to add their bookshelves, and then off they go. Adding some challenges, games, awards of some kind etc, would keep people coming back every single day to update their stats. Just my 2 cents.
Jordan Gonen
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@productpearson Appreciate the thoughts! Agree with the sentiment :) Will definitely keep in mind.
Mike G
Love this, GoodReads was frustrating to the point that I have been using a Trello board for this purpose for the last few years. Only thing I'd like to see added is a "to read" list to keep track of the books I have on my radar but haven't had time for yet
Jordan Gonen
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@mgaruccio hey! thx for the support :) and yes totally agree! wishlist button coming soon.
Sharif Shameem

What better way to step up my book game than to publish my bookshelf on the internet for the world to see!

Pros:

Simple way to share books with a very minimal overhead & super clean UX.

Cons:

Absolutely none.

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