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If I'm honest, I prefer the crowd-sourced wisdom of everyone on HN [1], rather than a few individual's preferences. I do like the way you've put each person's l

If I'm honest, I prefer the crowd-sourced wisdom of everyone on HN [1], rather than a few individual's preferences. I do like the way you've put each person's list into topics though. A few suggestions and questions: - as the list grows, will there be some way to categorise and discover the lists? (tags, topics, etc) - is the numbered list their recommendation in order? Or is it just a list that happens to have numbers? - I would like a link to the source for each recommendation (twitter post or HN comment). Congrats on putting this together though. I hope you receive lots of interest and appreciation! [1] https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news

QueensGambit 7y ago
Hacker News Books looks great and crowd-sourced wisdom is very useful! But, sometimes I find such aggregated data to be a popularity contest. It becomes the default recommendation I see everywhere - from Amazon to Google trends. So, I wanted to see individual's reading list and decide for myself. That's why I built this. > as the list grows, will there be some way to categorise and discover the lists? (tags, topics, etc) Yes. I hope to categorize by communities such as Hacker News, Vernacular Books etc. My next list is "Reading with Your Child" :) > is the numbered list their recommendation in order? Or is it just a list that happens to have numbers? It is not in any specific order, since it is compiled from different sources. Hopefully, I will get to interview them to ask for their preference? ;) > I would like a link to the source for each recommendation (twitter post or HN comment). Sure! That's my next task. Thanks for all the suggestions!