Comments on post “Hardbound 3.0”
Andreas Klinger
@andreasklinger · Tech at Product Hunt 💃
Just tried it - awesome - really love it. Great idea to pivot to books
Quick note:
I watch a ton of "edutainment" on youtube
Videos about history mainly.
The new version of hardbound reminds me a lot of those videos. Personally i like the narrater and the background music. They often also use animation to explain.
Imo this format of (up to 10minutes) focused storytelling around one piece of content (eg book or historic context) is super useful. There might even be market space for a curated learning experience around this kind of crowd sourced content. The scope of hardbound might not be stories but byte sized contextualized learning.
I love how you guys also provide context to the book - eg in the End of Power you explain Mark Zuckerberg + Clinton's interest in this book and why. Provides a lot of useful context and faster understanding of the main arguments of a book.
Feedback: The hardest thing will be to get people like me into the habit - example: i just open youtube whenever i get bored. I wonder how much free content it takes to get me there.
All the best for your launch of 3.0!
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Nathan Bashaw
@nbashaw · Co-founder and CEO of Hardbound
@andreasklinger Thanks so much! Totally agree that "edutainment youtube" is one of the main competitors. We think there's something special about our format and the consistency of our content, but totally understand about the challenge of building that habit. To me it comes down to always pushing the quality bar, and smartly re-engaging you in non-annoying ways.
Definitely let me know how the first week goes!
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Andreas Klinger
@andreasklinger · Tech at Product Hunt 💃
@nbashaw maybe it's not your competitor but just the behaviour you productize
in best/future case you maybe even source
btw i stopped reading one story now b/c i cant listen to it next to working
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Vanessa Krumb
@techwow · Co-founder, Revere.ai
@nbashaw love the idea and agree with @andreasklinger. I've been building edutainment videos even for long form web articles because people don't always have time to read those even though they're useful. I can see this working really well on snapchat. Great use of micro content 👍
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