[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":957},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-25405259":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":47,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":81,"maker_in_thread":181,"shape":190,"grid":194,"attempts":920,"same_week":921,"maker_shows":39,"maker_hidden":950,"reader_version":951,"card":952},"25405259","A Book Like Foo","An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber","title","Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber","https:\u002F\u002Fabooklikefoo.com\u002Fescape\u002F","abooklikefoo.com","padolsey",1607850316,2020,344,254,110,3028,4,"legend","learning_science","book recommendation","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"book recommendations","reading","echo chamber","book discovery","mixed",-0.24,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":32},18,43,10,114,{"idea":36,"execution":38,"pricing":40,"performance":42,"design":44,"privacy":46},{"positive":37,"critical":33},13,{"positive":39,"critical":37},3,{"positive":41,"critical":41},0,{"positive":41,"critical":43},20,{"positive":45,"critical":41},1,{"positive":41,"critical":41},[39,39,39,45,39,41,41,45,41,41,41,41,41,41,48,45,39,48,45,49,18,41,39,39,49,49,45,39,49,49,49,45,49,49,45,39,45,18,18,45],5,2,null,{"problem":52,"audience":59,"pricing":64,"motivation":70,"time_to_build":50,"stack":77,"openness":78,"stage":79,"team_size":80},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Readers stuck in narrow reading habits want books outside their usual taste.","maker",[56],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},"25405260","Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely…",{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"Readers who read narrowly and want to broaden their reading.","inferred",[63],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},{"value":65,"source":54,"evidence":66},"Amazon affiliate links, no commissions yet; exploring commercial licensing and API access.",[67],{"id":68,"by":11,"text":69},"25415605","I'm trying out Amazon affiliates yeh, tho no commissions as yet .. :\u002F I'm also exploring commercial licensing and API access possibilities.",{"value":71,"source":54,"evidence":72},"Maker built it as a part-time hobby, aiming to help people escape narrow reading.",[73,76],{"id":74,"by":11,"text":75},"25406050","It's a large graph database that I've prepared myself over two years, as a kind of part-time hobby. It's largely an automated scrape of metadata available on wikipedia,…",{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":82,"objections":98,"requests":135,"questions":158,"alternatives":166},[83,91],{"value":84,"source":85,"evidence":86},"Useful discovery tool, especially with filters like acclaimed fiction.","commenter",[87],{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"25408948","mercury_craze","I enjoyed playing around with this and I got real value out of it as a discovery tool when I filtered to showing aclaimed fiction. I know its survivor bias, but I dont want to…",{"value":92,"source":85,"evidence":93},"Found favourite authors through it.",[94],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"25406129","Neputys","This is quite fun actually! Tried different philosopher combinations. Get Alcoholics Anonymous recommendations for quite a few until I add Schopenhauer. 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A pretty standard selection…",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"25406206","sol_invictus","Put some of my own favourite books (maths, business and Japanese fiction) onto the engine and got recommended african-american and feminist literature (and a cookbook.) Then I…",{"value":122,"source":85,"evidence":123},"Many searches return 'Unable to find that title'.",[124],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"25408411","mdoms","\"Carl Sagan\" Unable to find that title \"Demon-Haunted World\" Unable to find that title \"Richard Dawkins\" Unable to find that title \"The Selfish Gene\" Unable to find that title I…",{"value":129,"source":85,"evidence":130},"Recommendations include books in Spanish and other languages the user cannot read.",[131],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"25405958","Bootvis","I really like this idea but I think it would be nice to the recommendations to a specific language. 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