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Love this idea. I've thought about doing something similar, but as a graph, so we could see books that many people have recommended in common.

Thanks so much for implementing this idea. Very nice idea. Whenever i want to watch a movie its hard to find whats best with imdb or google search because its so generalized. But…

Great idea! How do you collect data?

really cool, i especially like the product (ie non-book) recommendations. having a curated list of products isnt something i'd seen before, while there are plenty of reading…

Love this, cheers! For some reason, the design of this is very sweetly nostalgic to me--reminds me of the web from 10y ago (in a good way!). Web fonts and accessibility concerns…

I'm honestly curious how you envision that affiliate links might create the wrong incentives. There are other ways to make money, but the ones I can think of seem much worse.…

>> No to amazon affiliates. > Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. I hate ads and every other scheme to extort money from people, but I have…

I like this. Thanks for sharing. I hope you will consider one thing, and please don’t mistake it for political correctness. The phrase “from good people” is distasteful and I…

I'd use great. Good people is usually used to mean decent people, whereas great people is used to mean impressive people, which may or may not be moral, as in great man theory of…

I always find that recommendation websites suffer in the long-term because the incentive to just keep adding more stuff (to keep the site not seem stagnant, thus make people come…

Might I suggest not using the urls for search? Searching for "Software" gives you a ton of Joel Spolsky recommendations because of his website URL ;)

When I searched for 'Software', all of Joel Spolsky's recommendations showed up because the word 'Software' is in his source URL.

One suggestion: - Order by column (especially by date for tech).

I miss filter by category (I have tons of books on TODO list already and I wanted to quickly check everything beside books).

In that case maybe make them smile.amazon.com links so some proceeds go to charity?

Consider smile.amazon.com links or affiliates for charities like electronicfro-20 (EFF) though.

Nice! I have a request though - could you make it more obvious that clicking on the name of the recommender takes you to their review/the context of why they recommended the…

One tiny suggestion (well, medium-sized :) Often, these recommendations come with a reason why this is a good book. You might want to include them, if possible.

Plan on taking investors? Because that last sentence might make it a challenge, much as I agree with it.

What could investment do for a site like this?

Great idea! How do you collect data?

Im not sure I understand how you intend to do that: the silence problem is that the majority of experts don’t post their recommendations, right? Even if you have their names from…

I always find that recommendation websites suffer in the long-term because the incentive to just keep adding more stuff (to keep the site not seem stagnant, thus make people come…

Ya theres also alternativeto.net, producthunt, wappylzer, slant for software too. Also bpproductansphoto reviews, bestbuy reviews, and googlereviews. Then you can also do SEO…

I dont use any single recommendation source anymore for this reason. Its always a combination od youtube, amazon recommendations and reviews, reddit, and stackexchange sites.