HackerBooks.com
Learning and science
book discovery
SHOW HN2011
351points
140comments
#10of 1,097 in 2011
Top 1%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
20 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 59 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Idea: 7 for, 1 againstPerformance: 4 for, 1 againstDesign: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstPricing: 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.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful and well-executed concept
From 3 comments
This is a great idea. Simple, yet effective, and well executed. I wish I'd thought of it.
dansingerman on HNAwesome site! Verrrry useful for SOers and HNers. I dont know if there is an API for it or not but if you can get the Amazon rating of a book and display it on the book…
chintan100 on HNWow, good idea. I've browsed it this morning and it's an excellent website. Some things I might add is a link to the context of where the book was cited and also better…
d0m on HN
Clean, simple design
From 2 comments
Site looks great - really great - on a macro level, but when you get down to it, it doesn't really have the content I'm looking for. There's extreme misuse of the space on the…
TheSOB88 on HNThis is really nice looking. I am working on a concept that encapsulates part of what you've done here and I would love to have a discussion with you. I'm not ready to launch…
codeslush on HN
Objections
Search returns same results for C, C++ and C#
From 1 comment
You need to adjust your tokenization settings. --Searching for C, C++, and C# all return the same results right now.
tallanvor on HN
Book pages cluttered, synopsis truncated
From 1 comment
Site looks great - really great - on a macro level, but when you get down to it, it doesn't really have the content I'm looking for. There's extreme misuse of the space on the…
TheSOB88 on HN
Ranking by quotes surfaces irrelevant books
From 1 comment
That was what I was doing initially, but actually it has (big) sideeffects: if you search Ruby and get the most quoted book, you get... an ASP.Net book! So I'm currently working…
thibaut_barrere on HN
Requests
Sort or filter by number of quotes
From 3 comments
You should sort the books by the number of times they have been quoted.
gauravgupta on HNIs it possible to sort in different ways? Am guessing it's sorted by latest recommendation at the minute? I searched PHP and would like to see by # of recommendations...
Jem on HNjust curious... how do you parse (and find the titles) from SO and HN? Only checking from publishers/distributors links? Keep the good work. I love it :) My only suggestion is to…
dmarinoc on HN
Free ebook filter
From 1 comment
Awesome site. Is there any way you can add a filter for "free" for ebooks?
instakill on HN
Amazon ratings
From 1 comment
Awesome site! Verrrry useful for SOers and HNers. I dont know if there is an API for it or not but if you can get the Amazon rating of a book and display it on the book…
chintan100 on HN
Show context of quotes
From 2 comments
Wow, good idea. I've browsed it this morning and it's an excellent website. Some things I might add is a link to the context of where the book was cited and also better…
d0m on HNI like it! You might add links to the questions so people can see from the references what ground the book covers.
rhizome on HN
Questions
How parsing and data sourcing works
From 1 comment
just curious... how do you parse (and find the titles) from SO and HN? Only checking from publishers/distributors links? Keep the good work. I love it :) My only suggestion is to…
dmarinoc on HN
Which tech stack was used
From 1 comment
What language/tools did you use to build it?
HackrNwsDesignr on HN
Alternatives named
hn-books.com
From 2 comments
Interesting resource. Another related site would be DanielBMarkham's http://www.hn-books.com/ ...
swombat on HNI like it! Just last week I had two people email me with similar site ideas to hn-books.com, and when I launched hn-books 2 completely other people emailed me that they were…
DanielBMarkham on HN