Craig Mod built his own Good Reads

neilv•about 2 hours ago

If you want a non-corporate alternative to Goodreads, there's a Fediverse one, BookWyrm: https://bookwyrm.social/

(I don't know how many people are using BookWyrm, but Goodreads itself seems half-abandoned. Maybe most of the publisher attention is on TikTok influencing now?)

brandur•about 2 hours ago

Thanks, this is neat. Goodreads seems to be get so little development attention these days that it's a miracle it still runs.

Interesting choice by BookWyrm to hide review ratings by default. I like it — I always felt that on Goodreads literature that's a little more challenging to tackle is reviewed very unfairly compared to easy-to-digest-but-content-light popular books or pulp fantasy. Making the default to have users read the contents of a review instead of glancing at an aggregate number seems like the right answer.

NathanielK•about 2 hours ago

This looks rad and very user drivrn.

I've been tracking with bibliocommons through my local library, but it has it's flaws. I can add books that any bibliocommons library has indexed, but there's no convenient way to search outside my library.

natbennett•3 days ago

Specifically for his private social media that’s a benefit for his paid subscribers. 5 or 6 days of a few hours a day, with Claude.

tolerance•about 2 hours ago

This link is more informative.

https://craigmod.com/roden/102/#the-good-place

Craig Mod is an interesting example of someone who makes a living online through "ethical" content production.

mjcarden•17 minutes ago

From that link... if only Craig knew the difference between 'tenet' and 'tenant'.

lol8675309•about 3 hours ago

Who?

keane•about 2 hours ago

author at Random House, angel investor, expert on publishing and digital books, former product designer at Flipboard: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=craigmod.com https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=craig+mod

gnabgib•about 2 hours ago

Title: Go Knicks, A Better Goodreads, 'Cheap' Killer Films

loeg•about 3 hours ago

If it's only for tracking books you really liked, it's not a Good Reads replacement.

keane•about 2 hours ago

Someone might have said similar about (Systrom's version of) Instagram: if it's only for photos, it's not a Facebook replacement.

protocolture•about 2 hours ago

Doesnt seem to overlap with good reads at all?

I find goodreads sucks at book recommendations, but excluding the books that some random twitter replacement didnt read doesnt seem like its going to make it good at book recommendations either.

Goodreads however remains fun for keeping me accountable with my reading goals, and nothing else has replaced that.

DCC - Yeah this isnt great. Yeah the litrpg genre was infested from the beginning with 20booksto50K people, and then LLM people.

wahnfrieden•about 1 hour ago

It’s for his paid community. If you’re in the community, then it’s not a random community and you will have shared interests - and community.

protocolture•40 minutes ago

That doesnt really make sense. If you are on twitter you are in the "community" but applying this methodology to twitter is unlikely to be a good recommendation engine for the twitter community either.

tolerance•34 minutes ago

What do you mean? "Communities" on social media platforms vary, common behavioral traits that the platform may engender not withstanding.

The platform Craig Mod built looks like the equivalent of getting book recommendations exclusively from your mutual follows on Twitter.

Craig Mod built his own Good Reads

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