[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":342},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-1614160":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":9,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":88,"maker_in_thread":199,"shape":212,"grid":215,"attempts":321,"same_week":322,"maker_shows":32,"maker_hidden":334,"reader_version":335,"card":336},"1614160","Any new books?","A new book notification service I just launched","title","Show HN: A new book notification service I just launched",null,"acangiano",1282140615,2010,41,42,43,370,12,"shown","consumer_social","book notification service","web_app",[23,24,25,26],"new book alerts","book recommendations","book release notifications","weekly book email","curious",-0.02,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},5,15,2,4,26,{"idea":36,"design":38,"docs":40,"execution":41,"pricing":42},{"positive":30,"critical":37},1,{"positive":39,"critical":32},0,{"positive":39,"critical":37},{"positive":39,"critical":39},{"positive":39,"critical":39},[30,39,37,44,39,44,44,39,30,44,39,44,30,39,30,39,37,44,44,44,39,44,39,44,39,44,37,39,39,30,37,44,39,44,39,44,39,39,44,44],3,"Hi guys,\n\nyesterday I launched a new book notification service called 'Any new books?': http:\u002F\u002Fanynewbooks.com\n\nThe idea is that you enter your email, subscribe to a few categories of your interest, and then you'll receive one weekly email per category with a list of new interesting books that were just released.\n\nThe first day was pretty good I think, with many people signing up. Among these, I've already spotted a few key players in our industry (which I take to be a positive sign, of course) and the feedback I've been receiving by email has been very positive so far.\n\nI'm posting this here ",{"problem":47,"audience":55,"pricing":62,"motivation":69,"time_to_build":9,"stack":73,"openness":86,"stage":87,"team_size":86},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Finding out about good new books is hard; word of mouth is out of date","commenter",[51],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},"1614279","Josh0","Wow, thanks. This is a fantastic idea! Finding out about good, new books is actually one of the things that I find really hard to do. Usually I just have to wait to hear about it…",{"value":56,"source":57,"evidence":58},"Readers who want to hear about new books in their categories","inferred",[59,61],{"id":60},"post",{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Affiliate sales (e.g. Amazon Associates), possibly non-obnoxious sponsors later","maker",[66],{"id":67,"by":10,"text":68},"1614249","Yes. For the most part it will be affiliate sales (e.g., Amazon Associates). I will also accept non-obnoxious advertisers\u002Fsponsors down the road. If the list becomes big, there…",{"value":70,"source":64,"evidence":71},"Launched a book notification service for readers to find new releases",[72],{"id":60},[74,80],{"value":75,"source":64,"evidence":76},"Amazon ECS as main book data source",[77],{"id":78,"by":10,"text":79},"1614560","I'm adding other sources to the backend, however yes, Amazon ECS is the main source at the moment. The titles are hand-picked, but I use Amazon's data and a custom algorithm to…",{"value":81,"source":64,"evidence":82},"Mailchimp for email sending",[83],{"id":84,"by":10,"text":85},"1617594","I'm using Mailchimp, a third party service provider.","unknown","launched",{"praise":89,"objections":113,"requests":137,"questions":169,"alternatives":191},[90,102],{"value":91,"source":49,"evidence":92},"Good idea and useful for finding new books",[93,97,98],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"1614351","duck","Great idea. One nice feature for down the road might be to send only one email per week with the different categories a user selects combined. I know I have always enjoyed update…",{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"1614333","yanowitz","Cool idea. Feature request: enter a list of authors I like and get notified when a new title is available by any of them.",{"value":103,"source":49,"evidence":104},"Interesting and clean design",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"1614689","samratjp","It's pretty neat. The inbox picture isn't the easiest to pick out that it's an indbox - make it look like the normal window view of mail with the split views for easier…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"1614339","mshafrir","Looks great! I'll just add that I think there's too much going on in the navigation... moving spotlight, changing colors, and some sort of other effect going on.",[114,123,130],{"value":115,"source":49,"evidence":116},"Navigation animations are distracting",[117,121,122],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"1614343","nostromo","I must tell you that I find the navigation animation to be very distracting. I think you'd be better off without it at all. Otherwise, appears to be an nice service.",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"value":124,"source":49,"evidence":125},"Category names are ambiguous",[126],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"1614367","bruceboughton","I found your categories to be a bit ambiguous. What is the difference between Computers & Internet, Programming, and Professional & Technical, for example? I can guess but then I…",{"value":131,"source":49,"evidence":132},"Kindle option is confusing for non-Kindle readers",[133],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"1614475","grepular","What's with the \"Kindle\" option? I have a Sony Reader. I read E-Books. I don't read \"Kindle ebooks\" whatever they are.",[138,146,153,157,162],{"value":139,"source":49,"evidence":140},"Subscribe to authors",[141,142],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"1616013","darushimo","This looks great, Antonio. What I'd really like is a feature to subscribe to small (\"indy\") publishers. This is similar to the \"by author\" feature mentioned in these comments.…",{"value":147,"source":49,"evidence":148},"Keyword alerts",[149],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"1614780","Dornkirk","Is there any way to make notifications by keyword? I entered \"OpenGL\" into the search box to see if any new books were out, apparently there aren't, but can I subscribe to…",{"value":154,"source":49,"evidence":155},"Single combined weekly email",[156],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},{"value":158,"source":49,"evidence":159},"Recommendations based on ratings",[160,161],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},{"value":163,"source":49,"evidence":164},"Book summaries",[165],{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"1615150","c0riander","This is a great idea. Would it be possible to include a one or two sentence summary (very short) about each book? Otherwise we're just judging books by their covers...",[170,177,184],{"value":171,"source":49,"evidence":172},"What is the business model?",[173],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"1614234","michael_dorfman","What's the business model? Affiliate sales?",{"value":178,"source":49,"evidence":179},"How is book data obtained?",[180],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"1614664","Vindexus","Cool stuff. How are you getting the data on new books? Do you have a cron job that uses Amazon's API to search for new books? I'm not really familiar with their API so I'm not…",{"value":185,"source":49,"evidence":186},"Why the Kindle option?",[187],{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"1614311","ascuttlefish","Looks like a good service. I've signed up. I'm curious, what's the purpose of the Kindle ebook question?",[192],{"value":193,"source":49,"evidence":194},"Amazon's former notification service",[195],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"1614865","kabuks","Amazon used to have a similar notification service, but they killed it. Anybody know why?",{"comments":200,"answered":201,"key":202},14,6,[203,206,209],{"id":204,"text":205},"1614410","Thank you for your suggestion. It's definitely an option that I'd like to implement at some point. I know that some people won't like receiving separate emails, so I'd prefer to…",{"id":207,"text":208},"1614497","Thanks, I'll reduce the number of effects going on. :)",{"id":210,"text":211},"1614422","> enter a list of authors I like and get notified when a new title is available by any of them. I must confess you are not the first person to suggest this. 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