Show HN: Nextread.ai – AI-powered book recommendations with a twist

Doesn't work for me. I tried with two books, "Cryptonomicon" by Stephenson, and "The Fellowship of the Ring" by JRR Tolkien. And, both times, I got-

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The first book I tried completely errored out the site, the second book I tried worked, but the AI stuff doesn't seem to do anything at all. Console show's its returning a 500 error page and failing to interpret that as JS

I like the silly animations on the site! I entered the book "Five billion years of solitude" that i really like and clicked on "Unleash the book magic" but the recommendations it gave (under the headline "More Science / Space Science / Astronomy Adventures Await!") were not very good¹. Also, the "scoop" for the following book is garbled: https://nextread.ai/book/stellar-interiors-GI3qBwAAQBAJ

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¹ for example https://nextread.ai/book/density-functional-theory-of-atoms-... is a very different book than mine.

The library is tiny, loads of popular titles just dont show up. Those that do it gives truely awful recommendations for.

Example, "Big ideas for small businesses" by John Lamerton - specifically chosen as its a UK focused small business book in a relatively niche category.

It recommended me a books called "Top 100 Companies in China", "Trade and Investment in China", "Lean UX", and one of the the Harry Potter books for some bizarre reason....these arent even remotely related types of book.

LLMs are surprisingly effective recommendation systems. Throw in a list of your favourite books, music labels, tv shows, movies, you name it. And it will reply with some useful suggestions on what to consume next. I had particularily good results with music labels and books. In fact, I have a .txt file with my favourite books now, if I ever need a recommendation...

I have a major problem with every recommendation system - all these remind me a recommendation system from Amazon which after purchasing a laptop recommended me more laptops. I'm not interested in more books similar to the ones I already read, music similar I already listened etc.

Broken website that wants you to sign in if you want to do literally anything useful with it.

It displayed results in other languages, too, so I couldn't understand what was displayed.

Honestly, you could probably use ChatGPT directly for better results by asking it for suggestions or tweaking the prompt a bit.

Looks interesting.

I found that the blog links are broken. Blogs really do themselves a disservice by using generated imagery. It make me assume the content is AI too and cheapens the whole service.

Maybe this is just a placeholder for now.

Really nice, if the interface gets a little more polished, the site creator can make enough money with affiliate links

I love the front-end but the back-end doesn't work. I managed to get one Spotify playlist generated.

Attention Everyone!!! We have just found our killer AI app!!! Just imagine, you no longer need to talk to friends, family, or waste time on social networks to get a list of books you are never going to read!!!

I can't wait to start buying tulip bulbs for pennies on the dollar.

Seems to have not heard of Thomas Hardy. Also quite buggy.

Seems like the site is down.

Both books I tried errored.