Pageturner
Consumer and social
reading community
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
6 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 4 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Idea is interesting and elegant
From 3 comments
Very nice and elegant idea. I run a book-discovery extension full of bibliophiles who might really like this...would be interested to hear what you have in mind for developing…
moksha256 on HNCool idea! I've seen some people on WIP use it for building a reading habit, but a community focused on it makes a lot of sense. Would be interesting to see more excerpts and…
marckohlbrugge on HNThis immediately caught my attention. I wouldn't say I'm a book lover (at this very moment). Rather, I used to be a veracious book reader, but then life, social media and the…
technotarek on HN
Objections
Gamification of reading may be counterproductive
From 2 comments
Not sure how I feel about the gamification of reading. At the low end, you’re probably better off not reading at all if the alternative is, say, anything by Tom Clancy or Jason…
IfOnlyYouKnew on HNI think I’d turn it around and instead say: “does everything have to be incentivised”? I mean, I’m all for being encouraged, but there’s a fine line between incentives and…
dmje on HN
Login and errors on load reported
From 3 comments
As someone that avidly uses goodreads (but wishes there was a non-Amazon option instead) this is really interesting. After signing up and using it for a bit, here are some…
ab-dm on HNCool idea there are several UnCaught Promise error (I think related to auth function). Hope it helps ``` Error: Request failed with status code 403 at…
lt_snuffles on HNLooks really cool. Looks like I'm now hitting an unexpected error when trying to load the page
episode0x01 on HN
Feed skews to business books; hard to find fiction
From 1 comment
This immediately caught my attention. I wouldn't say I'm a book lover (at this very moment). Rather, I used to be a veracious book reader, but then life, social media and the…
technotarek on HN
Requests
Filter feed by genre and followed people
From 2 comments
This immediately caught my attention. I wouldn't say I'm a book lover (at this very moment). Rather, I used to be a veracious book reader, but then life, social media and the…
technotarek on HNI love your idea, and this is something I can see myself using (and very well might!). What would really be the killer feature for me would be something that would let me view a…
x86ARMsRace on HN
Progress tracking instead of pages
From 1 comment
As someone that avidly uses goodreads (but wishes there was a non-Amazon option instead) this is really interesting. After signing up and using it for a bit, here are some…
ab-dm on HN
Goodreads integration
From 1 comment
As someone that avidly uses goodreads (but wishes there was a non-Amazon option instead) this is really interesting. After signing up and using it for a bit, here are some…
ab-dm on HN
Questions
Does the streak require reading a book a week?
From 1 comment
> Streak: You add points to your streak every time you post. Read and post at least once a week to continue your streak. does this imply that the expectation is that you read a…
ppezaris on HN
Can users export data and is the service durable?
From 1 comment
I better track my reading and save quotes somewhere locally or on the platform I know still be around in a month or in ten years. Otherwise good try to crowdsource generate…
diimdeep on HN
Alternatives named
Goodreads
From 2 comments
I'm curious if you've tried Goodreads? It has both personalized recommendations and tons of lists, as well as social aspects that you can choose to use or ignore. Not exactly the…
vlunkr on HNI haven't, but will likely give it a try when I get back on the reading (books) horse. I wish it weren't owned by Amazon. de-FAANGing is too hard!
technotarek on HN
The StoryGraph
From 1 comment
Check out The StoryGraph (https://app.thestorygraph.com/)! Is not Amazon-owned, and while it's not built to be a Goodreads replacement per se, it's been super helpful for…
aninuth on HN
Makerlog and WIP
From 1 comment
Thank you :) WIP and Makerlog were my inspiration, I noticed how effective streaks and logging were for building in public, so I wanted to build a reading community around it.
bcye on HN