MapFilterFold
Consumer and social
book recommendations
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
6 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Design: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 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
Useful for finding books recommended on HN
From 3 comments
This is really cool, thanks for this! A lot of the books I read came from HN recommendations so this is pretty useful to me :)
Insanity on HNThis is fantastic! I've often come across book recommendations in HN comments and then struggled to remember where it was posted when it came time to purchase a book on topic X.…
disposedtrolley on HNThis is very nice, thank you! A goodreads url in each book would be great
7fYZ7mJh3RNKNaG on HN
Clean, easy UI
From 2 comments
What an excellent UI. It's hard to make something relying on scraped data so nice and easy to use, this nails it! Have a few books on the way now :)
jonfw on HNThis is really cool! Is there any particular sorting on pages like https://mapfilterfold.com/articles/early_founders or is it just whatever order you put them there?
Dockson on HN
Objections
Mailchimp signup asks for reCAPTCHA
From 1 comment
This looks great. I like how it is setup and I find the value it offers to be swell. I will however complain that I shouldn't have to recaptcha myself if I took the time to enter…
myu701 on HN
Page did not fit on mobile until unzoomed
From 1 comment
Looks good on mobile but on first load you need to unzoom for the content to fit.
micael_dias on HN
Requests
Add Goodreads links to each book
From 1 comment
This is very nice, thank you! A goodreads url in each book would be great
7fYZ7mJh3RNKNaG on HN
Descriptive page titles for bookmarking
From 1 comment
Can you change the page titles to be more descriptive? I've bookmarked a few of these pages but had to manually change the titles to have the book title in them.
btrettel on HN
Show critical reviews alongside books
From 1 comment
On my wishlist is a book site that will also give you top positive and negative reviews for each book from high quality sources like Boston Review or The Atlantic. I like to pair…
eatonphil on HN
Questions
Is the site statically built or backed by a server
From 1 comment
Nice! How is the site itself built? Is it a static page or do you have some sort of backend? I did something very similar for a local podcast that gives book/movie/music/etc…
lbrito on HN
Legal issues with reusing comment text from HN
From 1 comment
I am trying to build something similar and I was wondering if there are any legal issues with showing content from the source website into mine, in your case for example the…
geospeck on HN
Alternatives named
hackernewsbooks.com
From 1 comment
Interesting that https://mapfilterfold.com/ and https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news look to be attempting the same goal but with different results. Curious…
awb on HN
ramiro.org HN most-linked books
From 1 comment
MapFilterFold is a side project I’ve been kicking the can on for a while, it started out as a monstrous spreadsheet I maintained for a few months in 2018. The site uses Amazon…
odie88 on HN
bookmarks.reviews
From 1 comment
Try https://bookmarks.reviews
Cenk on HN