HardcoverJeff

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   by HardcoverJeff 2y ago

   One point of note: Nadia has a couple of people working with her as well - Rob does some stuff, and Abby is their Head Librarian (or whatever similar title, she's effectively an all-around assistant that runs their Librarian Corps in a
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   by HardcoverJeff 2y ago

   I don't think it is Amazon so much as sheer number of users. When you have 20K (like Hardcover), it is much easier to be focused on each of them (or at least small groups of them) than when you have 20 million - much less a few multipl
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   by HardcoverJeff 2y ago

   GR claims 125 million+ users. StoryGraph now claims over 3 million. Hardcover currently has 20K - and yes, a lot of those are fantasy based readers. That just means it is easier for other readers to come in and potentially become the new la
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   by HardcoverJeff 2y ago

   Right now we get a lot of tech/ dev oriented users, and many of those are looking for an API :)
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   by HardcoverJeff 2y ago

   To 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 cr