Hey everyone ✌️
Excited to launch a side project I've been working on.
📚Good Books is a curated collection of book recommendations from some of the most successful, influential and interesting people around the world.
Let me know who you'd love book recommendations from in the comments and I'll add them to the list👇
This project started about 6-months ago when I started to keep track of all the books that I wanted to read and who recommended them. I then got (a little) obsessed with the project and ended up accumulating over 15,000 book recommendations from about 1,250 people...
I built Good Books to share these book recommendations with the world, organising them into simple categories and industries so it's easy to find your next read.
What's next for Good Books?
📚 100s more recommendations every month
🙋♀️ Adding more interesting people (who would you like to see?)
📝 Writing some curated recommendation lists
📩 Planning a weekly newsletter with recommendations
🕵️♂️ Adding sources to book recommendations
Follow me on Twitter or Dribbble for more updates and ask me anything! 🙃
Jordan
@haydenbleasel Thanks man – I've been meaning to add your books!
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@jordan__hughes Hi Jordan, first of all kudos for your hustle, and your product looks amazing.
I am documenting journey of makers, creators, entrepreneurs through out the world. The goal is to do a short interview, capture it in video, and let it out to the world, so that others can get inspiration. And also to get an acknowledgement, for you, and for your hustle. I would like to request you to email me, so that we can schedule some time, at tellmeaboutit510@gmail.com .
Thanks, and good luck!
Subodh
I often choose interesting books from various tops, but most of all I like fantasy about superheroes and detective stories. I also find popular science literature and books on business topics useful. But in order to read them, I need to have free time, the opportunity to concentrate and delve into reading. While books like the Cradle Series relax me. I think many people have the feeling that they want to choose a book to suit their mood. Therefore, I hope there are books on various topics in your collection so that everyone can find something interesting for themselves.
I'm curious if you're thinking about ways to help automate things so this can continue to grow and scale with less manual creation/input.
Perhaps opening it up to a broader community of contributors, taking user-generated submissions? How're you tracking submissions? Spreadsheet? Sorting through email?
Impressive project on all fronts, and to see it's all made on Webflow (/cc @callmevlad@bryantchou), to boot! Great work @jordan_hughes1
@callmevlad@bryantchou@jordan_hughes1@scottmathson Automating this further would be the dream! I've added a submission form to the site which is a baby step towards that.
At the moment, I've just hacked together a mega Airtable which batch imports 90% of the manual work straight into Webflow's CMS.
I'd like to explore taking this a step further and automate changes using Zapier or similar... I haven't had any experience with this before.
On the community front – that could be the next evolution! I'm exploring what's possible with MemberStack to see what's possible with nocode solutions at the moment.
Really appreciate the feedback! 🤗
@jordan_hughes1 solid setup - great you’re making use of these tools for quick MVPs, further validation, and iterate and rework later.
Let me know if you want any insights on custom development/code approach - happy to help and answer q’s.
Solid launch day, congrats!
@jordan_hughes1 and for what it’s worth: I see a big opportunity beyond the affiliate model, too.
You’ve consolidated hours upon hours of podcast interview book recommendations and other sources into a dataset here that I know other publishers and creators could and would love to utilize! Very marketable API here!
I read a lot and Good Books is one of the first places I go to find my next read. It really is the biggest and best book recommendation site, and the design is 😍
No one ever marked it down, but that doesn't stop a few of us from mourning it. Stunning site - experience is on another level to what I'm used to with GoodReads!
Excellent idea and beautiful design. I have a couple of suggestion I'd love to see them implemented in your product, though:
- I like the simplicity of the book page: a medium-sized cover, a brief description, and a list of famous people who recommend the book. This is great for most people, but not everyone. I'd like to see more information about the book: average rating (aggregated from multiple sources), popularity score (number of reviewers relative to the publication date), number of pages (most people tend to pick shorter books), and the publication date. Don't make them visible by default; this would negatively affect your simple design that fits the majority, I guess.
- Adding a sorting option will probably make the experience even better; sort by publication date, popularity, average rating.. etc.
- I'd love to see a hyperlink to Goodreads where I can read some reviews.
@mhadidg These are awesome suggestions, thanks Mustapha! I'm chipping away at adding the Goodreads links – I hadn't considered pulling in the scores/page count as well 🙂
Thanks for the feedback!
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