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I included all the big ones (Hugo, Nebula, etc.) and also more obscure awards that I like such as SF Site Editor's choice. Once I had all the awards in there it was easy to start creating a New Book list based on award winning authors.\n\nI could tell the app was working as soon as I saw the two book lists on the home page. The",{"problem":44,"audience":52,"pricing":9,"motivation":61,"time_to_build":9,"stack":67,"openness":96,"stage":97,"team_size":96},{"value":45,"source":46,"evidence":47},"Finding good science fiction and fantasy books without blindly searching Amazon","commenter",[48],{"id":49,"by":50,"text":51},"3077071","javanix","This is awesome - I've been searching for somewhere to find good new SF\u002FFantasy for a while that doesn't just entail blindly searching Amazon.",{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Science fiction and fantasy readers","inferred",[56,57],{"id":49,"by":50,"text":51},{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"3077597","2mur","This is really, really fantastic. Been a huge sf\u002Ff reader my whole life (collect 1sts of lots of favorite authors... hovering around 6000 now). I basically used to do this…",{"value":62,"source":63,"evidence":64},"Wanted a better way to choose books, as time became more valuable and bad books less tolerable","maker",[65],{"id":66},"post",[68,72,76,80,84,88,92],{"value":69,"source":63,"evidence":70},"Ruby on Rails 3.1.1",[71],{"id":66},{"value":73,"source":63,"evidence":74},"HAML",[75],{"id":66},{"value":77,"source":63,"evidence":78},"Sass",[79],{"id":66},{"value":81,"source":63,"evidence":82},"CoffeeScript",[83],{"id":66},{"value":85,"source":63,"evidence":86},"MongoDB via MongoHQ",[87],{"id":66},{"value":89,"source":63,"evidence":90},"Twitter Bootstrap",[91],{"id":66},{"value":93,"source":63,"evidence":94},"Heroku hosting",[95],{"id":66},"unknown","launched",{"praise":99,"objections":120,"requests":143,"questions":178,"alternatives":183},[100,109],{"value":101,"source":46,"evidence":102},"Useful way to find good new SF\u002Ffantasy books",[103,104,108],{"id":49,"by":50,"text":51},{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"3076784","phrotoma","This fairly reeks of awesome. If the ones I don't recognize are as great as the ones I do, I'd say you have a damn fine site there!",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"value":110,"source":46,"evidence":111},"Fantastic and simple site",[112,116],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"3077521","gigawatt","This is fantastic! Perfectly simple and useful. Only glitch I've run into so far is that the search function doesn't work. As far as I can tell, there's no type=\"submit\" for the…",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"3076902","peapicker","Well done, you! I like the site a lot, bookmarked.",[121,129,136],{"value":122,"source":46,"evidence":123},"Search does nothing when no match is found",[124,125],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"3085032","jogrimst","Hello. That is because it is a auto-complete search field. If you search for something that does not exist, nothing will happen. If you type for example \"Krak\", you will get…",{"value":130,"source":46,"evidence":131},"Bias toward recent SF",[132],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"3077818","dougws","There seems to be a really heavy bias towards relatively new SF; is this because there are more awards now than there used to be, or because you only have data going so far back?",{"value":137,"source":46,"evidence":138},"Nominations counted same as wins",[139],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"3077479","100k","Cool! Very nice. I'm sort of slowly working my way through the double winners of the Hugo and Nebula (kind of a lifetime goal, I guess). It took me a while to find the \"Hall of…",[144,151,159,164,171],{"value":145,"source":46,"evidence":146},"Add community voting and rankings",[147],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"3076725","natbro","OK, I have to admit at first I thought there was something wrong with the site because I didn't recognize enough books... but after reading some excerpts of books off the lists,…",{"value":152,"source":46,"evidence":153},"Show book excerpts",[154,155],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"3076861","md1515","This is fantastic. I think you should follow natbro's lead on a few things - allow disquss commenting and show excerpts of the book. Also I have a series to add: Harry…",{"value":160,"source":46,"evidence":161},"Add commenting via Disqus or Facebook",[162,163],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},{"value":165,"source":46,"evidence":166},"Add Audible links",[167],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"3077201","Urgo","I like it. One suggestion or request really however. Can you add a link to Audible in addition to amazon & the kindle for us audiobook fans?",{"value":172,"source":46,"evidence":173},"Link to library availability",[174],{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"3076870","sammyo","A hook into Google book library reference 'available at your local library' would be awsome.",[179],{"value":180,"source":46,"evidence":181},"Why are newer books weighted so heavily?",[182],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},[184,191],{"value":185,"source":46,"evidence":186},"worldswithoutend.com",[187],{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"3076907","adamzochowski","Awesome job. It is similar to existing https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldswithoutend.com\u002F",{"value":192,"source":46,"evidence":193},"thegreatestbooks.org",[194],{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"3076940","wtf242","looks awesome! I wrote a similar site that aggregates the general fiction and non-fiction based on how many awards and lists they are on. http:\u002F\u002Fthegreatestbooks.org I built it…",{"comments":32,"answered":199,"key":200},2,[201,204,207],{"id":202,"text":203},"3076879","I've written a lot of data tools as part of Urbanspoon and subsequent startups. I like to collect publicly available data, clean it up, normalize it, and then release it in a…",{"id":205,"text":206},"3076914","Thanks Nat - I fixed the like button. 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