BookSlice

Gamified book reader for busy people

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Gamified book reader for busy people

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No time to read books? 🚀 Try BookSlice! 📚 The gamified book reader for busy people. Turn reading into a fun habit with goal-setting, habit stacking, and AI-powered assistance. First month free, then $2/month. Start your reading adventure today! 🎉

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BookSlice

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👋 Hey Product Hunters! I'm excited to introduce BookSlice, the ultimate gamified book reader for busy people. 🚀 I noticed my friends (despite their busy schedules) still wanted to read more. I ran an experiment (by accident) to help them, and it was a success! This inspired me to create BookSlice—a way to make reading fun and habitual. What is BookSlice? BookSlice is a Telegram bot that uses psychology to turn reading into a habit. For busy people, it makes reading as easy and addictive as checking your messages. Key Features: 🔹 Gamification: Make reading a game! Set goals, earn streaks, and transform your reading habits. 🔹 Habit Stacking: Integrate reading into your daily routine. If you’re regularly on Telegram, BookSlice can leverage your habit of checking Telegram by sending you custom reminders to read more. 🔹 Read in bite-sizes: Reading a big book can feel overwhelming! BookSlice tries to reduce that feeling by sending you chunks of the book so you can commit to bite-sized texts one at a time. 🔹 AI-Powered Assistance: Get instant answers to your questions about the paragraphs you're reading. Our AI provides in-context responses to enhance your experience. 🔹 Free Trial: Enjoy the first month free! After that, it’s just $2/month with a 100% money-back guarantee if you're not satisfied. Your feedback is incredibly valuable as I continue to improve BookSlice. Please share any suggestions or issues in the comments. Thank you for your support, and I hope BookSlice helps you read more books! With ❤️, Walter Tay

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2yr ago

@waltertay Congrats on your launch! I love seeing new ideas for getting people to read more. Building out your library is nice and I like that you have the ability to include your own books.

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2yr ago

BookSlice

Maker

@jxj7 Hey thanks Jennifer!! Let me know if you give BookSlice a try!

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2yr ago

Coinfella

💡 Bright idea

This is so good! I can see myself using this. Since there's an AI element going on, I would suggest adding a 'read next' or a 'suggest a book' feature involving AI, including GoodReads ratings and a link to download the epub or to download automatically. So I just have to search or get recommended a book, and start reading straight up! Another feature idea would be to have separate chats for each book, I read multiple books at a time and that'll help a lot.

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2yr ago

BookSlice

Maker

@chandula Hey Chandula thank you so much for the feedback! Great ideas! GoodReads deprecated their API so I wasn't able to query there, but I have a friend building a goodreads alternative and I'll see if I can query book recommendations from there! Definitely see where you're coming from w.r.t. reading multiple books at the same time! I'll see what I can do! Thanks again for the detailed comment I appreciate it! Feel free to let me know if you have more feedback!!

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2yr ago

💎 Pixel perfection

I'm an early adopter of BookSlice (before it was launched here) and have been maintaining a streak of over 2 weeks with much ease. I think it achieves its goals of helping busy people read spectacularly. I tend to spend those few moments of idle time I have on social media and messaging platforms, but BookSlice has taken much of my attention these days. My favourite feature is the in-built AI. When I read, I often end up Googling unfamiliar terms or events, but that would lead me down a rabbit hole that I didn't plan to go down. With the AI assistance, I can get the answers in the same window, and that helps a lot with remaining focused and removing distractions. The bite-sized paragraphs also really help with overcoming the inertia of reading. If I can read text messages from my friends, I can read these short paragraphs from BookSlice too. I foresee myself using this bot long-term. Looking forward to what more it can do! (I would love to see how my reading habits have changed over time. Something like the screen time function on our phones but for reading.)

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2yr ago

BookSlice

Maker

@crystal_low Thank you so much for the kind words and being an early adopter!!! Really appreciate it! This is the biggest thing I've worked on as a solo developer and I'm so happy that all the effort I've put in has helped you read more!!! Please feel free to send me more feedback if you have any :)

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2yr ago

Big fan of the idea! There is a similar app that gamifies fitness which I am sure you could bounce ideas off as well. I've been using GoodReads for a while, and like the social aspect of it as well as building out my own library. Would this be something that you could support? Also, it would be cool if it linked into calendars to schedule time for me to read based on my commitments, so I get the notification as well as it in my schedule. Other than that congrats on the launch!

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2yr ago

BookSlice

Maker

@jonathan_dennis Hey Jonathan, thanks for the comment and great ideas! Do you know the name of the fitness app? Would love to try it out! Would have loved to connect to Goodreads but they deprecated their API sadly. I have a buddy who's working on a goodreads alternative (13k users now) and I'm gonna see if I can connect to his API. Connecting to a calendar wasn't something I thought of, will think about it! I imagine integrating reading time with google cal might be quite cool (imagine adding it to the calendar and the bot knowing about it by syncing with the calendar).

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2yr ago

what if I want to read multiple books at a time but I want different feeds in the telegram channel for that?

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2yr ago

BookSlice

Maker

@kartikay_sharma30 hey kartikay! Thanks for the comment. I've not implemented this yet, but will look into this for the future! At the moment my focus is on helping you finish one book at a time, as regularly as possible haha

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2yr ago

I was excited about those, but I would warn caution...the download link does not take you to any app store, the site or takes you to is not secure, then it immediately asks for credit card information. I am NOT saying this isn't legit, but be very cautious and do your research!!!

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2yr ago

BookSlice

Maker

@kensmithadams Hey Ken! Thanks for the comment. Need to clear up a couple of misunderstandings on your part: 1. The landing page CTA is "https://t.me/BookSliceBot?start". This is a link that brings you to the Telegram app (where BookSlice lives). It does not immediately redirect you to request credit card information 2. You need to press [Start free trial] on the bot in order to actually be redirected to begin a free trial 3. The free trial page is a Stripe page and definitely not "not secure" 4. This is a common user flow for Telegram bot apps. For example see products from: https://x.com/levelsio (434k followers on X) I do understand how this might have been concerning especially for users unfamiliar to Telegram or the Telegram flow! I'll think about how I can make this better (I'll probably be the first in the industry to do this haha if I do do it) -Walter

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2yr ago

@waltertay Absolutely, and I appreciate your responding! I may not have started it clearly enough, and I apologize for that... Sincerely, I was not trying to denigrate your program, but more caution anyone with telegram bots to ensure the links are legitimate. The link on the bot goes to what seems like an unsecured website for entering the information, and I would think that would be appreciated by you most of all. I did try to stress that the bot and site may be perfectly fine, but just to be sure.

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2yr ago

BookSlice

Maker

@kensmithadams Hey Ken, no worries and thanks for the clarification! Let me know if you have more feedback! I do agree with your points on making the flow more clear and will definitely work on it.

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2yr ago

Great idea! Can I import books from my own resources?

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2yr ago

BookSlice

Maker

@kelly_happicat Hey Kelly, thanks!! Yeah you can definitely read books that you already own! Right now BookSlice accepts books in the EPUB format (I'm looking into adding PDF support)

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2yr ago

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