BookAuthority

So glad to hear that @thalassavanbeek It's been quite an effort building the platform and collecting all those recommendations, so comments like this really make our day!

@liorgrossman I can imagine! I've shared it with my team and some other people who I think would be interested. Good luck with it!

@renee_sandefur Wow, thank you for the kind words Renee! Yes, at the moment sign up is only available through Facebook.

@crashhawk Would you use it more on the web or on mobile?

@liorgrossman mobile

@crashhawk Good to know. We definitely have mobile in mind but this will take some time.

@liorgrossman @crashhawk I agree. A mobile app will be amazing

@jrmarciniak Thank you very much! That's a great question, and the answer is - both! (about 50/50%) :) Early on, the first profiles were created by doing extensive web research, where we searched social media, blogs, podcasts and other public resources (yeah, Inc. too...) for book recommendations by industry leaders. Lately, almost all recommendations were collected by approaching industry leaders directly and asking them to submit their book recommendations. We do it by finding their email, which is often very difficult, and asking them personally to open a profile or submit their book recommendations. As of now, about half of our authority profiles were created by research (people like Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates) and half were creating by contacting the authorities directly and getting their recommendations (e.g. Ken Blanchard, Nir Eyal and Sam Hurley)

@sam___hurley Thank you Sam! Really appreciated coming from you. And thank you for the wonderful book recommendations!

@liorgrossman You got it, Lior!! It's an absolute honour ... Maximum respect! 😍

@hilzfuld Thank you Hillel, glad you find it useful! Please keep the feedback coming, I'm interested of hearing how well BookAuthority when used on a regular basis. We definitely see a mobile app in BookAuthority's future, possibly a hybrid (half-native half-webview) app that is based on the React Native technology. This means we would launch it closely for both iPhone and Android, since it would be developed in a cross-platform manner. We've already built BookAuthority's website in a very mobile-friendly way to help facilitate that. This will take some time, though. We want to take the time to learn how people use BookAuthority on mobile and web, and obviously the design and development process will take some time. Would love to hear your thoughts on how you think your BookAuthority usage on the web vs. mobile would be different, if at all.

@kobaiko Unfortunately no. That's the next big feature on our pipeline (search for specific books or authors)

@liorgrossman Great, looking forward :)