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It only let's me update the title ;(

The link should be https://booksearch.party/blog/hobby-project-vs-llm-scrapers....

Please help me update this to the correct link https://booksearch.party/blog/hobby-project-vs-llm-scrapers....

Posted the wrong link on my previous post...

Damn I posted the wrong link

Custom development (contracting) your already guarantee the sale since they are paying you for what you already want so in that case I guess you could perfect your craft. On the open market there is the trade off of no wanting to waste your time on what people don't already need. In the case of the windows app you had validated your idea so at that point polishing it wouldn't have been that bad of an investment.

I guess the hardest part about these stories is as they say "hindsight is 20/20"

hmmm, sounds similar to myself at times. I think for me its an obsession with perfection. Hard to keep a balance between that and the pressure from non technical people to "Just ship it"

I updated the email to be optional, I was hoping to get emails just for follow up questions.

I think both of those stories are interesting.

For the low trust issue, I think it is becoming more clear with the rise of blatantly fake content online. I think a good lesson could be learned in what formalities you should get in place when working with others to prevent getting screwed over. I myself have been screwed over before by business partners and learned that you really need everything in writing and often lawyers.

For the windows app, did you just not have the time to fix all the issues? Or was it the weight of responsibility in what the app did?

... Perhaps I am just not getting enough traffic yet for it to work. I had signed up for Amazon affiliates but they closed my account due to lack to sales.

I've been finding some great books from Librivox. They have a great copy of Crime and Punishment https://booksearch.party/books/Crime_and_Punishment.html

I just updated the UI so its more mobile friendly. The row is now click able so it opens up a model with a more detailed view

That's a good idea, it would likely help filter my voice preference. Some of the audio recording are more difficult to listen to than others.

The lit2go and librivox audio sources should all be human. The project Gutenberg are all AI generated.

I am going to look into building out a more extensive filtering system where you could combine filters. Trying to decide on a balance of complexity and ease of use.

My personal use I aim to solve is getting accurate lists of the top rated books for a given genre and perhaps before a given year. I've been listening to lots of audio books recently, yet I only have so much time so I am aiming to only listen to the best.

The ratings are for the books not the audio recording. Unfortunately there is no data points for the rating of the audio, since the sources don't collect rating.

I could add a feature to allow for audio recording rating in the future. It would be helpful since some audio recordings can be of poor quality.

Definitely! In this iteration, my focus was on functionality to get the data out there. I can improve the UI to make the filtering system sleeker and more mobile-friendly. Additionally, I plan to create individual pages for the books, where I can include thumbnails and other finer details.

That's a good point; this definitely needs improvement. I'm planning to refine my data collection and matching process. Right now, I'm using string matching to build the tables, which may result in some data loss. The next iteration will include complete catalogs for all of them.