Afterword

The simplest personal library for readers

8 followers

The simplest personal library for readers

8 followers

Afterword is a simple personal library that makes book tracking and sharing reads with friends easier. Afterword features an activity feed, a recommendations page, and the library page to track your own books and see your friend's profiles.

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Afterword

Maker

Thanks to @jmitch for hunting us! Hi all! I'm Calvin. My cofounder Jess and I started working on Afterword as our quarantine project, and we're super excited to launch our alpha on Product Hunt today! We're both avid readers and former Goodreads users who were disappointed by the experience, and wanted to create something better. Afterword is starting off as a dead simple personal library that helps readers track, share, and discuss their books. The eventual goal is to help authors support their writing careers, while also building products to help readers engage with authors. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of what we're building, and we have exciting projects on our roadmap. Currently, our key features are: - Book tracking - write notes, edit lists, and move books to one category to another as you read through them - Activity - see what your friends are doing on Afterword, and find new books to read and people to follow - Reviews & Discussion - discuss your favorite books on Afterword when you're done reading, or leave reviews - Recommendations - send the books you enjoyed most to your friends with one click For the Product Hunt community, we're opening up signups for the next 48 hours. We've been operating the past few months under a closed program, and we'd love to welcome new users and continue making our little project better. Have questions or feedback? Hop in our Discord (https://discord.gg/chRqknHwca), leave a comment here, or click the Feedback button on the bottom right of our website. Happy reading, and we're so excited to welcome you all!

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5yr ago

Polygon Video

So exciting to see this come to life! I've wanted a better place and way for me to share what books I'm reading and interested in with my friends for the longest time 🔥🔥 Also, importing my books from Goodreads worked like a charm. Congrats on the launch @jessmei_ @calvin_dong !!

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5yr ago

Afterword

Maker

@calvin_dong @kunalsh23 thanks kunal!! means the world to us. feel free to give us feedback anytime

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5yr ago

Trove

Hey guys! Cool product, I've used Goodreads for years and I can def see myself using Afterword instead. My biggest hesitation come from what might happen to my tracked books and notes should you guys decide to not continue pursuing Afterword. Is there some sort of future proofing guarantee?

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5yr ago

Polygon Video

Really impressed by the clean design and emphasis on offering key social features in a human-friendly interface. Excited to see the evolution of this product :)

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5yr ago

Afterword

Maker

@jonathan_xu aw thanks jonathan!

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5yr ago

latch.ai

This is so sweet! Appreciate the attention to design here. Would love to see "most read book amongst your friends" or something like that. Good work Jess & Calvin 🔥

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5yr ago

Afterword

Maker

@kyle_giffin thanks kyle!!

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5yr ago

latch.ai

Finally, i've been waiting for a better alternative to good reads for so long. After exploring the product for a while you can be assured that I'm leaving good reads and never looking back.

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5yr ago

Can't wait to follow your team's work! I'm really curious to see where you'll take the review/discussion sections

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5yr ago

Afterword

Maker

@fncischen thanks francis

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5yr ago

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