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Excited to hear about Hardcover! I like StoryGraph but the lack of API frustrates me - I want to be able to sync back to my general notes store (Obsidian). Hope
by ryangs 2y ago
Excited to hear about Hardcover! I like StoryGraph but the lack of API frustrates me - I want to be able to sync back to my general notes store (Obsidian). Hopefully Hardcover works better with that.
- northrup 2y agoWhich is funny, StoryGraph is a Ruby on Rails app, exposing an API is a doable thing, which leads me to believe it is not a priority or a purposeful design decision.
- phildenhoff 2y agoYeah Hardcover seems to have a GraphQL API they use for their UI, which they expose. There’s not a lot of extra polish for third party devs — it feels like “this is the API we use, use it or not, things may break”. On the other hand, StoryGraph does server-side rendering and so it doesn’t have an API already. So adding one would be a decent amount of work
- HardcoverJeff 2y agoTo be clear, Hardcover also does server-side rendering. GR ditching their API was one of the primary motivations for Adam Fortuna (Hardcover's founder and Lead Dev) to even think about trying to create a competitor, so when he did create one, having an API available to others was a primary focus. Note: Hardcover is also working towards open sourcing at some level, hopefully in 2025.
- burkaman 2y agoIt is on the long-term roadmap https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/features/posts/an-api https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/features/posts/an-api
- andrewmutz 2y agoI’m going to guess most of their users aren’t asking for an API
- HardcoverJeff 2y agoRight now we get a lot of tech/ dev oriented users, and many of those are looking for an API :)