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Show HN: A book recommendation engine backed by 7 million book ratings
- padolsey 6y agoHi HN! This app is backed by a graph db containing around 7 million book ratings/affections and 150k book titles published prior to 2020. A query requires at least two books to run and will go about finding books for you based on the collaborative filtering of millions of existing affections. The data used is garnered from a variety of book review websites and open datasets. As well as collaborative filtering it also uses basic criteria like genres to find you matches. Users have found the results to be shockingly accurate so far.
- sgdpk 6y agoThis is nice :) I tried on Firefox and the thumbnails remain gray, I can only see them when I hover the title.
- codingdave 6y agoClever. I felt like it started to lock in on my reading tastes only after I had 5 selections, but that is still a decent app. Also, I don't mind sites that make money from Amazon's affiliate program, as long as they are delivering value, and the links they provide actually are useful to people. This fits that bill nicely, and is a great example of the right way to monetize links.
- JohnMunsch 6y agoThere are so many good books it lacks... But still a really neat idea. Good work!
- siddienahar 6y agoFeature Request: Save the results, at least locally..
- gbrhaz 6y agoI like it. As going through it though I had read so many in the list it provided. I see 6 is the maximum for a search, but it'd be useful to "neutralise" all the ones that have already been read to clear the stage a bit