Hi Product Hunters! 😄
I’m the maker of Bookstck, a curated bookshelf made by entrepreneurs like Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and more…!
I built Bookstck because I’ve always wondered what books amazing entrepreneurs have in their bookshelf. Moreover, I used to read :
- News like « X books recommended by Y »
- Book recommendations from @pmarca
- Quora posts like « What books are on Z’s reading list? »
So, a few days ago, I decided to gather all these recommendations in one simple product.
Feel free to ask and to share in the comments book recommendations from startup founders :)
Tip: Use our magic function to discover new books 👉 here
@clemkn This is awesome, we all read almost all such lists. and have discovered some priceless gems like only paranoid survive and business adventures through such lists.
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Very cool - love the clean layout! Are you manually creating these lists -- how long does that take per shelf and how do you know when to stop? Also -- suggestion would be (because I'm personally always looking for it) adding a link to Goodreads and/or Audible, so that I can see the ratings/reviews on those places.
@bryanpostelnek Thank you! I manually create the lists because of different formats but I though of a way to automate it. For each shelf, I'm looking for Quora posts, news, tweets, and Reddit AMAs... it's long enough. Ratings/reviews and other integrations are on the roadmap! 😄
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@clemkn Sweet! Appreciate the reply. :)
Two other ideas I'll leave you with are that it might be beneficial to provide high-level summaries of these entrepreneurs and (what could be really interesting) is to be able to map my interests in entrepreneurship or map my personality type to an entrepreneur's personality to be recommended which entrepreneur's bookshelf I should read off of.
Also -- I forgot to tell you the first time around that I love that you've put down the most commonly read books! It was one of the first things I was looking for on the site and I was so happy to find it!
Best of luck with this going forward and scaling it (mechanical Turk an option?)!
simple, nice :).
btw, this "recommendations-by-famous" idea would be definitely easily scalable into other niches. Like e.g. Famous Marketers Book List / Doctors.../ Attorneys ... / Actors ...
@tefomohapi I hunted Top Startup Books yesterday made by @sc3wnet (great product), but TSB is focused on books for startup founders and Bookstck is a representation of X entrepreneur's bookshelves 📚with various kinds of books.
@calc This doesn't surprise me - I think a lot of these people have technical backgrounds and probably read a certain type of book for fun. I bet if you had a more diverse group, there'd be more fiction. What people find "valuable" to read seems to vary wildly :)
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