bagofbones

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What are the primal motives for reading?(uxdesign.cc)
1 points by bagofbones 5y ago|1 comments
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What could a better Goodreads look like?(uxdesign.cc)
1 points by bagofbones 5y ago|0 comments
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by bagofbones 5y ago
Apart from the interface, in what ways is Librarything better than Goodreads?
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by bagofbones 5y ago
Quick question - why is "displaying lists of books" a hair-on-fire problem?
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by bagofbones 5y ago
The metadata itself is not a moat. ISBN APIs allow for easy access to primary data attributes of a book. The social data that Goodreads aggregates is definitely a moat, because it powers their SEO efforts further.
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by bagofbones 5y ago
I love the curation of topics - it's exactly the way people would think about discovering niche books. Curious to know - how did you curate these?
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by bagofbones 5y ago
You are not alone in this. https://debugger.medium.com/tech-savvy-readers-are-designing...
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by bagofbones 5y ago
This is the billion dollar question, but having the right answer at the outset may not be necessary. In fact, most successful business go through multiple iterations on monetisation opportunities before they strike gold. It is more importan
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by bagofbones 5y ago
All of: 1) assembling a usefully-large initial dataset to gain traction, 2) keeping it updated, and 3) content moderation & anti-spam Seem super dull and tedious for project that's probably going to fail. ^i would say these are pro
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by bagofbones 5y ago
lol. my strong hunch - it will only be a mission-driven founder who will take this to it's righteous end.
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by bagofbones 5y ago
This is a very valid argument. You have implicitly invested effort (in form of lists) in Goodreads, and wouldn't want to lose them. It's another reason why a challenger can't rely on book tracking as the primary feature to dr
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by bagofbones 5y ago
I think private shelving/tracking is an important feature to have in a product that serves the larger business opportunity of book social networks.
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by bagofbones 5y ago
agreed. if affiliate were to the only revenue stream, it'd be quite a small opportunity.
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by bagofbones 5y ago
I hear you. It's not broken. It does serve the primal use cases like shelving, reviews/ratings, meta-information pretty well. But there is also so much more to the experience of reading. Is Goodreads really the best we deserve?
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by bagofbones 5y ago
It's hard because of this reason. But I'm certain alternate acquisition channels/go-to-market could exist. It's a matter of understanding the customer's journey and capturing them at a stage other than "discove
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by bagofbones 5y ago
Lack of an evident business model could be a reason that turns off smart founders from picking this problem. However, if the product adds enough value to enough number of users, one could figure ways to monetise it.
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Why has no one made a better Goodreads(uxdesign.cc)
405 points by bagofbones 5y ago|275 comments