After a busy weekend launching on ProductHunt, we're hoping to share Hardcover with Hacker News today!
If you'd like to read a little bit more about how Hardcover started, see some numbers from our launch, and support us, we'd love to have you join the conversation over on HN! 👉
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744905
@e288911d thanks! It’s been an exciting day so far 🎉
A few things different between us & SG:
Advanced lists - we’re trying to create Airtable for your books w/full control for to explore them.
Match percentage - a score for every book (and reader)
Privacy focused - public, private and followers only reads, lists (which BookWyrm also does!)
Pros for SG: ratings can be anything, if you prefer not than half stars. SG has some slick stats. We do too, but love theirs as well.
@e3ee29f4 Glad to hear I'm not the only one. 😂
It's worse when I use camelCase in Ruby. 😱
At least in this case it's caching JSON, and for that I've normalized camelcase since it's consumed by the JS side.
We're preparing to launch Hardcover to more people tomorrow, including a ProductHunt Launch and to TikTok.
That means recording a LOT of very awkward videos. 😅
I'm slowly getting more comfortable with it. This one was even fun to make.
It helped that I gave myself an hour timeframe. That way I didn't try to make it perfect.
https://www.tiktok.com/@hardcoverapp/video/7284317745859071275
@5d318183 I like the concept from yours with a log of what's happened! I've usually kept mine up to date with a current snapshot because that's been the easiest. 😅
It took 9 submissions to get version 2 of the Hardcover iOS app into the app store, but it's now available!
I absolutely love the new icon Ste designed as well as the screenshots we show on the app store.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hardcover-app/id1663379893?platform=iphone
Side note: the Android version took only 1 submission. 😂
#books #bookstodon
@99964f0f I wouldn't be surprised. We have a lot of talking with authors still to do in order to figure out how we can best support them.
Do you have any "dream features" for a book platform?
@99964f0f not just yet. We’re currently researching “Discussions” as our next big project, and want to build it with authors in mind. We think when that releases is when we’ll really start courting authors.
This D3.js data visualization I’m working on started as a page on my (Next.js) blog, but I think it’ll be better long-term to have it in its own repo.
After some planning for what I’ll need, I think The Pudding’s Svelte Starter Repo is the way to go. Coming from a group whose primary focus is D3.js data Viz, this looks far better than anything I could come up with.
Anyone have any recommended resources for learning Svelte?
https://github.com/the-pudding/svelte-starter
#d3 #Svelte #SvelteKit #dataviz #d3js
Yesterday I implemented the simplest data export on Hardcover: a button that makes a single GraphQL query to get all of the users data and outputs the result in a textarea.
It doesn’t use Rails, CSV or anything except Postgres, Hasura and the users browser.
Later on readers will want other exports in different formats I’m sure - CSVs, RSS feeds, json representations, maybe a Google Sheet sync - but for an MVP this will hopefully get people asking for what they want specifically.
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