[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":554},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-4287398":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":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":33,"aspects":34,"strip":47,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":64,"maker_in_thread":264,"shape":276,"grid":279,"attempts":516,"same_week":517,"maker_shows":37,"maker_hidden":546,"reader_version":547,"card":548},"4287398","I Dream Books","A RottenTomatoes for Books","title","Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books","http:\u002F\u002Fidreambooks.com","idreambooks.com","rahooligan",1343157248,2012,146,89,133,1677,8,"notable","consumer_social","book recommendations","web_app",[24,21,25,26],"book reviews","critic reviews","book aggregator","mixed",-0.251,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":31,"critical":32},12,10,31,63,{"performance":35,"execution":38,"design":40,"idea":43,"pricing":45,"docs":46},{"positive":36,"critical":37},0,1,{"positive":37,"critical":39},14,{"positive":41,"critical":42},2,7,{"positive":44,"critical":42},5,{"positive":41,"critical":41},{"positive":37,"critical":36},[48,37,37,37,41,36,37,48,37,37,37,48,37,37,48,37,48,48,37,48,48,44,48,44,48,37,37,36,48,44,44,37,48,48,48,37,44,37,37,41],3,null,{"problem":51,"audience":49,"pricing":49,"motivation":49,"time_to_build":49,"stack":61,"openness":62,"stage":63,"team_size":62},{"value":52,"source":53,"evidence":54},"Finding which books are worth reading, using aggregated critic reviews","maker",[55,58],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},"4287757","Amazon is user reviews only. We like RottenTomatoes aggregate from professional critics like NYTimes & select bloggers to create a book recommendation of higher quality.",{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},"4288186","We focus on critic reviews to create a recommendation of higher quality (they don't do critic reviews).",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":65,"objections":93,"requests":167,"questions":212,"alternatives":232},[66,82],{"value":67,"source":68,"evidence":69},"Clean design and a useful idea for discovering books","commenter",[70,74,78],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"4287689","msredmond","Nice --- really like the layout",{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"4288906","flippyhead","I actually love this, found myself unconsciously clicking through on a few books to learn more. Sometimes all I want is a simple browsing experience to spark my interest and take…",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"4288320","jackalope","You know what I like about books? They're printed using black ink on white pages. I have to believe that other readers prefer this high contrast approach or we'd see more…",{"value":83,"source":68,"evidence":84},"Good concept compared with Amazon user reviews",[85,89],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"4287751","alecdibble","Rotten Tomatoes aggregates reviews from several different sources to determine a final score. Amazon mainly just employs user reviews.",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"4288248","socksy","Firstly, I love the idea. Part of the reason I've stopped reading fiction is because of the unknown quantity to whether it will waste my time — amazon reviews can be hit and…",[94,113,129,147,156],{"value":95,"source":68,"evidence":96},"Catalogue is missing many well-known books and authors",[97,101,105,109],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"4289519","commieneko","I spent about 10 minutes doing searches and couldn't find anything I was interested in. No Larry Niven, no James Michener, no William Gibson, no Max Brand, no several other…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"4290969","organic_code","Interesting but lacks way too much content still. I could not find Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, Brent Weeks, etc. Every Fantasy author I tried that did not have an HBO…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"4288694","jwallaceparker","Sounds cool. But where are all the books? No Hemingway, Vonnegut, Faulkner, Kerouac, Fitzgerald. Why no classics?",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"4288622","ghshephard","Love, love, LOVE the idea - It's one of those things that I would use every week if it worked. Critical feedback from a potential fan: #1 - When looking at best sellers, one of…",{"value":114,"source":68,"evidence":115},"Search returns irrelevant results",[116,120,121,125],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"4288359","ComputerGuru","Your search is... awkward. I'm searching for \"Count of Monte Cristo\" (no quotes), and I get barely-related results (starting from \"The Pregnancy Countdown\" to \"Fifty Shades of…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"4288003","Foy","Good to hear, I was frustrated when searching for a particular author, ie \"Robert Jordan\" would return results with \"Robert\" or \"Jordan\" anywhere in the title or author name.…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"4288081","mmanfrin","Searched a couple books, found none: 2666 (none found), Vanished Kingdoms (none found), Twilight War: After the Fall (tried 'twilight war' and 'after the fall', each gave…",{"value":130,"source":68,"evidence":131},"Ratings seem wrong; the binary positive\u002Fnegative scoring is questioned",[132,135,139,143],{"id":133,"by":91,"text":134},"4288571","Sorry, I think you misunderstood me, I am specifically referring to the New York Times review of it, which is one of the 4 negative reviews of the book, but if you read it is in…",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"4289099","alphakappa","I'm not sure how giving such a binary 'good' or 'bad' to a review is helpful for books. Reviews could be on a continuum (hence the star rating system that many folks use) and…",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"4289153","siodine","The scorings are terrible. Rottentomatoes is fairly reliable for getting solid recommendations as a cinephile, but this site is giving high marks for what is clearly crap. Maybe…",{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"4297554","endersshadow","The idea of a binary positive vs negative is really troubling to me as far as an algorithm goes. It should very much be on that sliding scale that Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes…",{"value":148,"source":68,"evidence":149},"Grey text and blue headings are hard to read",[150,151,152],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"4288101","b0","Good stuff. Can you please make the text darker - I suffer from some sight problems which make grey on grey quite hard for me to read.",{"value":157,"source":68,"evidence":158},"Slow load time",[159,163],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"4288138","rprasad","cough Goodreads. Already has network effects going for it, and a very vibrant author community. It does pretty much what all the comments on this HN page suggest you should…",{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"4288193","jQueryIsAwesome","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.webpagetest.org\u002Fresult\u002F120724_PJ_YQW\u002F Slow as hell, but far from 5 minutes.",[168,179,186,197,205],{"value":169,"source":68,"evidence":170},"Show author's other books and reviewer pages",[171,175],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"4287778","danso","Very cool. One feature that RT has that you don't have yet is the ability to see all reviews by a reviewer\u002Finstitution. Actually, being able to see all books by the author would…",{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"4287830","rhizome","To put a slightly finer point on it: sites like this are incredibly relational. Everything (almost) should be clickable for a collection view.",{"value":180,"source":68,"evidence":181},"Show personal preference for review sources",[182],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"4290622","tijs","This would be awesome if i could set personal preference for the review sources. I really don't care what Yahoo voices or some of the other 'critics' think but you are bound to…",{"value":187,"source":68,"evidence":188},"Add purchase links such as Amazon affiliate",[189,193],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"4287853","Meldryn","You need to put in some form of CTA for purchase of said books. I kept looking for the Amazon link to check the pricing and other relevant metadata.",{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"4288690","tyleregeto","I love it. I looked into doing this a while back with one portion of the business model being Amazon affiliate sales; you should be doing that. Not only is it good for you ($$$)…",{"value":198,"source":68,"evidence":199},"Support exact title matching in search",[200,204],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"4290411","ajb","With book search, you need to put exact titles before more popular matches. Amazon used to get this wrong, they don't any more. A telling example is \"We\" by Zamyatin - a classic,…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},{"value":206,"source":68,"evidence":207},"Separate Science Fiction and Fantasy categories",[208],{"id":209,"by":210,"text":211},"4287781","afterburner","Looks nice. Is it possible to have separate categories for Science Fiction and Fantasy? EDIT: Also, you should put the author's name wherever the title is displayed. 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This feels redundant (and possibly unintentional?) 2)…",[233,241,248,256],{"value":234,"source":68,"evidence":235},"Goodreads",[236,237],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},{"id":238,"by":239,"text":240},"4288979","Kroem3r","Aside from Goodreads, my list includes: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.librarything.com\u002F http:\u002F\u002Fwww.shelfari.com\u002F http:\u002F\u002F49thshelf.com\u002F http:\u002F\u002Fopenbooktoronto.com\u002F http:\u002F\u002Fwww.filedbyauthor.com…",{"value":242,"source":68,"evidence":243},"LibraryThing",[244],{"id":245,"by":246,"text":247},"4288932","thestu","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.librarything.com is another that's quite popular.",{"value":249,"source":68,"evidence":250},"Amazon user reviews",[251,255],{"id":252,"by":253,"text":254},"4287728","d0m","Beautiful and useful website that I look forward to come back to. I, however, thought that the \"RottenTomatoes for Books\" was Amazon. In what is this site different?",{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},{"value":257,"source":68,"evidence":258},"Rotten Tomatoes",[259,260],{"id":252,"by":253,"text":254},{"id":261,"by":262,"text":263},"4288716","runaway","One difference I notice is that RottenTomatoes uses color more effectively. Looking at their homepage I see the red and green tomato icons and instantly see which movies are…",{"comments":30,"answered":265,"key":266},6,[267,270,273],{"id":268,"text":269},"4288828","Thanks. Our db isn't that big yet. We are adding books & ratings every day though!",{"id":271,"text":272},"4288647","Thanks for the comment. The bold is applied again in the css...not ideal. Removing it makes it less heading like though. 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