> I realized that there is just no real viable business model for it to be worth it I think this is key. It is kind of amazing that on a site all about startu

> I realized that there is just no real viable business model for it to be worth it I think this is key. It is kind of amazing that on a site all about startups and finding "product/market fit" every single thread about goodreads completely ignores any aspect of viability and expects someone else to just spend money for purely aesthetic reasons like it is a charity project. Is goodreads perfect? Good lord no. If I owned it, would I spend money trying to improve the search or the mobile app? Hell no. Hire 5 developers at $1 million/year to...what exactly? Is a better mobile app going to translate to tens of millions of dollars of revenue somehow? It isn't like LibraryThing or StoryGraph or BookSloth or Riffle are actually any good and they have 5+ years of development to solve all the alleged issues. Yet everyone in this thread complaining about Goodreads is still using Goodreads instead of them.