Bookicious

Book recommendations from founders & makers

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Book recommendations from founders & makers

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Hunter

This seems like a very nicely designed site and it's always very interesting to see which books prominent people recommend. @maurosicard : where did you source the book recommendations from? Is it just like personal blog posts etc where these founders have mentioned liking these books?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@_jacksmith Hi there Jack, thanks for the comment! I found recommendations mainly in blog posts and tweets. As I plan to add more collections, I am thinking in sending out an email to some entrepreneurs asking for their recommendations.

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11yr ago

Hunter

@maurosicard @_jacksmith it could be great if you could show the source of where you found each book recommendation

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11yr ago

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Maker

@_jacksmith Done. Just added sources to the collections. Thanks for the feedback Jack!

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11yr ago

Hunter

@maurosicard awesome! maybe something for later; but it'd be also cool if you could pull in what the person had said about them. e.g. here: http://abovethecrowd.com/2015/07... Bill Gurley says: "Last year I was turned on to an amazing book by Jonathan Gottschall titled The Storytelling Animal. Gottschall explains how storytelling plays a critical role in each and every human’s life. The purpose of a presentation deck is to enable entrepreneurs to effectively tell the story of their business." him saying it's amazing could sway me more than if he just thinks it's pretty good.

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11yr ago

Toolwatch

I like the design and the idea, good job ! I was wondering if there was a way of setting up this kind of website easily as I seem to be coming accross a lot of these recently ? (It's not a critic, I really love them!)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@marcaime Great that you liked it Marc! I think that the difficulty of building something like this varies depending mainly on the stack, because for example building with WordPress may be easier than coding from zero. If you have any opinion or feedback feel free to tell me :)

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11yr ago

Hovercode

@maurosicard @marcaime What did you build this with?

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11yr ago

Toolwatch

@ramykhuffash @maurosicard I was gonna ask the same question !

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11yr ago

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Maker

@marcaime As it is an MVP, it's only plain HTML/CSS/JS, but I am starting to make a CMS for this project with Ruby on Rails :)

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11yr ago

Product Hunt Bookmark Collections

Not cool @MauroSicard :( it's just a bad copy of my product "Bookstck" hunted a month ago.

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11yr ago

Hunter

@clemkn that seems very rude to me to describe this project as a "bad" copy; in fact this site seems like a nice design and minimalistic. You should also appreciate that your site doesn't seem to be being updated - you still only have 6 authors even a month later. The fact is that collecting books of famous entrepreneurs is not an original concept; rather than trying to claim that someone shouldn't compete with you and describing their work as "bad", I'd suggest contributing more effort towards your project to make it succeed more. On the internet, there are many competing projects taking similar approaches (see Digg, Reddit, Voat etc); what defines which one succeeds comes down to many factors: e.g. who can keep their servers up, who can keep innovating, who can create a sense of community etc. An idea is worthless, it's all about execution.

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11yr ago

Product Hunt Bookmark Collections

@_jacksmith I know an idea is worthless blablabla... we have the same readings. I congratulate him, same design and no source. Also, he simply took books already on Bookstck without add others. While if he had tried to find, he would have found a lot (I hadn't put everything). Well played!

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11yr ago

Hunter

@clemkn in fairness, checking again on my desktop; you are right that it's not cool that the starting book collections are quite identical to yours (same authors and books), it should have been easy to find others. @maurosicard do you have any comment ?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@_jacksmith @clemkn Before Bookstck was launched, I was also planning and prototyping Bookicious. When It launched, It helped me a bit of research, so thats true I took some books from there. Anyway, I added another collections too, and this week I was going to submit even more. If its true Bookstck helped me to save time on research, I am not trying to copy it. Sorry If you feel like that, in this moment I am improving collections and adding more books so you won't feel its a copy. P.S.: I am adding the sources right now so give me some minutes and its done :)

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11yr ago

Hunter

@maurosicard @clemkn I hope that you can both maintain your projects. Mauro's angle seems that there are lots more collections being added fast. Clément - your one seems to showcase individual books better (which I also think is interesting - which books multiple people recommend etc)

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11yr ago

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Maker

Hi there :) I am the maker of Bookicious, I am a 18 years old entrepreneur and as I love reading so much I decided to create a series of book collections from successful entrepreneurs. I am planning to expand Bookicious a lot, as I am adding a lot of new collections this week. Feel free to suggest any entrepreneur or category. Any feedbacks and opinions are well received. Thank you!

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11yr ago

YoSold

@maurosicard Hey there ! Reputation is key. Yourself, you are a brand, we are going to remember your brand and its characteristics. This is not the only thing you will ever do on the web, but the next time I'll see your name on a product, I'll remember that it's from the guy who created a product that really looked like another product, which also happened to be featured on the same curating website some time ago. I am not sure such a brand characteristic is the best one to carry around. I think you could have used an audio book angle (featuring the same books buy as audio books), made it about women and minorities only (which the other website terribly lacked), or any kind of differentiation that makes your work original and removes that "hum already seen that somewhere....". Hope to see you soon around soon !

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11yr ago

@maurosicard Great product. I'm enjoying going through the book recommendations!

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9yr ago

The customer service guide for startups

Good job on launching @maurosicard - how do you determine which books are recommended by each of the listed founders? It would be interesting to see, once you have a large enough sample size, which are the most popular books.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@cynicalgrinch @cynicalgrinch At the end of the books you can find the "Source" button and there you can see sources of the books :) Also will add the most popular books, as some other also suggested that feature. Thanks a lot for commenting and for your feedback!

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11yr ago

Zipdrug

This is what I had in mind when I create topshelfie.co (a source of a couple of your lists). Didn't have the time to build it out, but happy to see someone else running with this idea! How do you plan on sourcing these lists?

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11yr ago