Ask HN: Are you a book lover? Give us feedback
My co-founder and I built this tiny app over the last few days because we often find books on Twitter, but forget them.
It's a work in progress, but the workflow is: you comment or DM a tweet containing a book(s), and we'll go out and find the book(s), store it/them on a page for the tweet, and then send it back to you. We'll then always keep the tweet's page, your page with a collection of all the books you've saved, and also a page for the original book recommender and all of their recommendations.
For instance, here's[1] a page that extracted the books from a tweet by Keith Rabois. And here's[2] a page that is ALL book recommendations from tweets by Keith Rabois. If I were the one to note any of these tweets, I'd also have a page for myself to remember every book I've noted.
[1]: https://tryfootnote.com/posts/1 [2]: https://tryfootnote.com/recommended-books/rabois
My questions to you, book lovers:
(a) How do you find books? Do you find them on Twitter? How often?
(b) Do you suffer from the same problem we do of forgetting where you saw that one book that sounded cool but now you've lost? And would you use this solution to that problem?
(c) We're intending to drive affiliate revenue through this... Would you buy through this, or would you be put off by affiliate links?
(d) Would you browse this type of site? Or would you only use it for remembering your books?