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It's funny you say that, because I made this after making a 1-page website and then a mobile app. People liked those, but engagement cratered because people had no reason…",{"value":60,"source":54,"evidence":61},"Make book discovery happen by putting it in the new tab, after earlier one-page and mobile versions saw low engagement",[62],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":67,"objections":84,"requests":122,"questions":157,"alternatives":172},[68,80],{"value":69,"source":70,"evidence":71},"Serendipitous book discovery is a useful idea","commenter",[72,76],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"14289366","real-hacker","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…",{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"14290893","markatkinson","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…",{"value":81,"source":70,"evidence":82},"Snippets are good and make readers want to read more",[83],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},[85,97,108,115],{"value":86,"source":70,"evidence":87},"Opening a new tab is a distraction",[88,92,96],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"14286443","jasoncrawford","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…",{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"14288632","spark3k","I don't know what could be more distracting in a work day than this. :\u002F",{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},{"value":98,"source":70,"evidence":99},"Random books repeat and the snippet library is small",[100,104],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"14286665","tintor","Nice idea. It showed me the same Bruce Lee book three times within 5 minutes.",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"14316321","logichaiku","There 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,…",{"value":109,"source":70,"evidence":110},"Extension requested permissions that exposed browsing history",[111],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"14325337","woliveirajr","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 ?",{"value":116,"source":70,"evidence":117},"Snippets are added by hand and will be slow to scale",[118],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"14286316","jasonlfunk","\"Book snippets are added by hand. It's time-consuming!\" It's going to take a long time to do all 100 million.",[123,131,139,146],{"value":124,"source":70,"evidence":125},"Keep a history of shown books",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"14291148","pveierland","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…",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},{"value":132,"source":70,"evidence":133},"Remove the loading delay and animation",[134,135],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"14293279","dangom","I really liked the idea. Congrats and keep it up!! 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I want to know that a book has been favorably reviewed before investing time in reading…",[158,165],{"value":159,"source":70,"evidence":160},"How was the book database assembled?",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"14286993","jmstfv","How did you assemble database of these books?",{"value":166,"source":70,"evidence":167},"Is there a way to limit which tabs it opens on?",[168],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"14286414","frindo","Is there a way to limit the tabs that it opens on? 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