100M Books
Productivity
book discovery browser extension
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
8 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 14 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Idea: 4 for, 6 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Serendipitous book discovery is a useful idea
From 2 comments
I love the idea of introducing serendipity. A bold idea: reach out to Amazon: 1. Kindle users have marked numerous snippets for their favorite books, and the snippets marked by…
real-hacker on HNI didn't want to comment till I had the extension installed for a few hours, and now that I have here are my points: - I love it, it is making me so hungry to read more and the…
markatkinson on HN
Snippets are good and make readers want to read more
From 1 comment
I didn't want to comment till I had the extension installed for a few hours, and now that I have here are my points: - I love it, it is making me so hungry to read more and the…
markatkinson on HN
Objections
Opening a new tab is a distraction
From 3 comments
Cool idea, but not sure why it's a new-tab thing? When I open a new tab I'm usually going to do something, I don't want to be distracted. Would make more sense to me as a…
jasoncrawford on HNI don't know what could be more distracting in a work day than this. :/
spark3k on HNI didn't want to comment till I had the extension installed for a few hours, and now that I have here are my points: - I love it, it is making me so hungry to read more and the…
markatkinson on HN
Random books repeat and the snippet library is small
From 2 comments
Nice idea. It showed me the same Bruce Lee book three times within 5 minutes.
tintor on HNThere seems to be either a problem with your randomisation script or else (with all power to you for shipping) lauched with you a really small data set. Well not really small,…
logichaiku on HN
Extension requested permissions that exposed browsing history
From 1 comment
Now this extension requires new permissions that seem to be unneeded for the goal... why that ? See the icons from my pages and see which pages I visited ?
woliveirajr on HN
Snippets are added by hand and will be slow to scale
From 1 comment
"Book snippets are added by hand. It's time-consuming!" It's going to take a long time to do all 100 million.
jasonlfunk on HN
Requests
Keep a history of shown books
From 2 comments
I tried it out quickly and have two suggestions: 1) Pre-fetch the data such that the page can be immediately rendered when opening a new tab. Seeing a 1+ second loading animation…
pveierland on HNNice idea. It showed me the same Bruce Lee book three times within 5 minutes.
tintor on HN
Remove the loading delay and animation
From 2 comments
I tried it out quickly and have two suggestions: 1) Pre-fetch the data such that the page can be immediately rendered when opening a new tab. Seeing a 1+ second loading animation…
pveierland on HNI really liked the idea. Congrats and keep it up!! The only issues I have is that opening a new tab now makes me forget why I opened a new tab for, since I immediately see new…
dangom on HN
Add Firefox support
From 1 comment
Looks cool! Any plan for Firefox? It supports WebExtensions now, though I don't know if there's binding for new tab pages.
Shywim on HN
Add Amazon links and ratings or reviews
From 2 comments
Very cool but why is there no way for me to easily click to go to the Amazon page? I would be more than happy for you to use your affiliate account.
vowelless on HNJGreat project and I just added it to my browser. Could you please add reviews or ratings? I want to know that a book has been favorably reviewed before investing time in reading…
jkuria on HN
Questions
How was the book database assembled?
From 1 comment
How did you assemble database of these books?
jmstfv on HN
Is there a way to limit which tabs it opens on?
From 1 comment
Is there a way to limit the tabs that it opens on? I think this would be nice to have when I'm trying to waste time but if I'm trying to open tabs for work I could see this…
frindo on HN
Alternatives named
Wikipedia Special:Random as a home page
From 1 comment
I like using Wikipedia's Special:Random as a new tab to get a new fact every time Set as your home page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
lionyo on HN
Momentum dashboard
From 1 comment
Cool idea, I like seeing book related projects on HN. Small suggestion: Slow down the image carousel on the homepage it moves to quickly to process what it's showing you. Also it…
lostphilosopher on HN
Unsplash new tab extension
From 1 comment
Chrome should let you randomize which extension controls the new tab, because I like this but I also like Unsplash.
GavinMcG on HN