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I would suggest a book called "The Manager's Path", it is a very popular book suggested by the stack overflow community.

https://toptalkedbooks.com/books/Ze2lQw/The-Managers-Path-A-...

I have 5 cs book recommendation that every developer should read. (just posted today)

https://toptalkedbooks.com/articles/w22ksA/books-young-softw...

Based on our experience, once you finished the MVP, you should focus on SEO, HN can drive some traffic, but it won't last long. Good Luck!

true, but most of them are the study guide related to the question.

While we are analyzing data for http://toptalkedbooks.com, we realized there are a lot of youtube links mentioned in the comments, therefore we put together this website to show all of the videos. HN videos are updated daily, SO videos are updated weekly. We are also working on tutorials for developers, stay tunned! Thank You!

wow, that is quick, looks good, Thanks!

great idea! just one UI suggestion, can you blur the background when popping up the image? that will make my eyes feel better.

other than that, great job!

our experience was about 5-6k users when hitting the front page. it really depends on how many people upvote your posts. good luck!

there is a long way to go, i don't think "ThingsOnReddit" is a success yet, don't give up so easily, it is all about your determination.

great idea, while we were doing toptalkedbooks.com, my partner and I were thinking about doing the exact same thing for our next project. Nice UI, good execution, good luck!

just one friendly note: our site was rejected by amazon a couple time,(due to content issue), I hope your path is smoother.

http://toptalkedbooks.com is another one for books

our site was also rejected from amazon affiliate a couple times due to the same problem, eventually we changed the content and get passed, I wrote a medium post for that, https://medium.com/@guohuang/how-we-got-rejected-from-amazon...

so don't give up, just keep trying

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/aRnlEw/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-...

http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/_5tcQA/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-...

I would recommend this book, http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/xyiEMg/RESTful-Web-Services-...

I understand that, we had the same feeling when we launch our side project a month ago.

good stuff, nice job! wish you the best.

Happy to hear that, we just did another update this morning. :)

It really depends on the traffic, we have launched the site for only a month, we've got about 9k users so far (mid aug til now), revenue is about $200

Good question, we don't have an answer yet, we are still finding a better way to get more organic traffic.

Thanks for finding it useful.

I am not sure if affiliate marketing count as a content site, you are always "selling" something directly or indirectly in order to make income, at http://toptalkedbooks.com, we present the best books to users from HN, stackoverflow and reddit. I think the bottom line is, give quality content to users, income will follow.

Thank you for your suggestion, we have added a link to the original thread, please check it out: http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/Ze2lQw/The-Managers-Path-A-G...

Regarding to the low mentions count issue, it is mainly because not many people in the community talked about the same books within a month, looking at the yearly view will get better result, http://toptalkedbooks.com/hackernews/2017

Thanks

toptalkedbooks.com offers statistic of how many times a book was mentioned from HN, StackOverflow and reddit. This is the major difference in terms of data.

here is an example: http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/j5PVXg/Working-Effectively-w...

I am glad that our website help you find the right book. This is truly our purpose of creating this website.

Quick tips, if you have your favorite books, you can submit the amazon links here, we will be able to index them.

Thank you so much for your advise, this is a great idea! we are currently busy on cleaning up the data.(comics books) we want to keep our focus on tech related books. After that we will be creating more analysis to the community. stay tuned.

I have been working on a side project to show all the most mentioned books from hacker news, stackoverflow, reddit. http://toptalkedbooks.com

we are still struggling on marketing, no revenue yet.

1 week (mostly nights and weekend) - http://toptalkedbooks.com

Building a website is not the most painful part, promotion and getting traffic are the hardest, you have to be very determined. keep up the good work, don't give up.

anyone has any good advice on marketing?

yes, we did the same comparison before launching, according to our source, our data is up to date, we are updating our data monthly. As you said it could be because we are using different algorithm therefore we get different result.

we pull data from public archives and run our own algorithm then return the top talked scores to users.

nice, thanks for the list!

have you seen this http://toptalkedbooks.com/stackoverflow/all