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I wonder whether the messaging (at least the HN headline) is ideal. I clicked through, but I don't know what makes it an anti-Goodreads. Perhaps the pitch real
by hyperpape 7y ago
I wonder whether the messaging (at least the HN headline) is ideal.
I clicked through, but I don't know what makes it an anti-Goodreads. Perhaps the pitch really is just for people who have a strong negative opinion about Goodreads? For me, I don't care about Goodreads at all.
- paxys 7y agoAgreed. My immediate impression is "Goodreads clone with fewer features" not "anti-Goodreads".
- dang 7y agoOk, we changed the title from Show HN: Stack, a Minimal “Anti-Goodreads” to what the page says.
- bscphil 7y agoI suspect this was posted here because of some recent threads that were very critical of Goodreads. You might search back through recent HN history to find some of the things people dislike about it.
- hyperpape 7y agoThanks, I’d missed that thread. So I guess that’s not the pitch, just an angle to appeal to HN.
- oliv__ 7y agoWell apparently someone changed it now anyways. The way I meant it initially was simply that it was a lightweight/minimal/simple vs big/complicated/clunky, which is my own opinion of Goodreads