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Show HN: BestBooks100.com

14 points by seymores 15y ago

Hi, Just thought I want to put this beta site out for public review. It's a prototype of a cms/bookstore engine I am working on using google app engine. The total work so far is clocked at about 7.5 hours -- using Gaelyk is really productive if you know Grails. Comments and insights will be appreciated. http://www.bestbooks100.com

seymores 15y ago
Direct link: http://www.bestbooks100.com http://www.bestbooks100.com
rorrr 15y ago
The images are set to width="1" height="1" So they are not showing up. Also I don't see a point to that project. I can just go to amazon and sort the business books by user reviews: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Abusiness%2Cn%3A%211000%2Cn%3A3&bbn=1000&keywords=business&ie=UTF8&qid=1316336584&rnid=1000#/ref=sr_st?qid=1316336605&rh=n%3A283155%2Cn%3A!1000%2Cn%3A3&sort=reviewrank_authority http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=n%3A283155%...
- seymores 15y ago
  I got the same problem too, it's caused by your AdBlock. It's just a prototype for a cms for bookstore, so ya, it'd be useless for amazon power users. :-)
riffmaster 15y ago
nice ! is there a way for visitors to vote on their favorite books & you order books based on that ? maybe even add a few if you missed out something ??
revorad 15y ago
That's a really nice and simple idea. You could turn it into a game, where people vote by bumping their favourite books against others.
ScottWhigham 15y ago
I see a blank wooden background in FF6 and Chrome 13.
- seymores 15y ago
  Adblock -- I love learning new shits everyday. :-)
dorian-graph 15y ago
I'd love it if there was more space below the title image. :P Otherwise, it looks okay. 2 small things that came to mind is the hover effect on the book images and the possibility of having a small blurb in the hover box for each book?
- seymores 15y ago
  hmm, you should see a popup with description when you hover.
sek 15y ago
Who has the time to read all that stuff?
smokestack 15y ago
Sorry, I feel like I'm missing something. It's pretty, but is this only Amazon.com's business category sorted by "Bestselling"?
- seymores 15y ago
  Thanks for the time, ya time being, just a prototype to display amazon best selling books.
- parasitius 15y ago
  Am I missing something?? If you can find people that prefer to view it on a sexy wooden background and can affiliate link them... WHY NOT? Amazon's pages are super busy.
eliot_sykes 15y ago
One thing with top x lists is they can suffer from not showing good older titles in favour of recent more hyped titles. Wonder if there is a way to account for this? So it is a more of an all time top x list?
theitgirl 15y ago
the pop-up that shows up when you hover on image is not updating..it keeps showing info of the first book i hovered over.

14 points by seymores 15y ago

seymores 15y ago

Direct link: http://www.bestbooks100.com http://www.bestbooks100.com

rorrr 15y ago

The images are set to width="1" height="1" So they are not showing up. Also I don't see a point to that project. I can just go to amazon and sort the business books by user reviews: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Abusiness%2Cn%3A%211000%2Cn%3A3&bbn=1000&keywords=business&ie=UTF8&qid=1316336584&rnid=1000#/ref=sr_st?qid=1316336605&rh=n%3A283155%2Cn%3A!1000%2Cn%3A3&sort=reviewrank_authority http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=n%3A283155%...

seymores 15y ago
I got the same problem too, it's caused by your AdBlock. It's just a prototype for a cms for bookstore, so ya, it'd be useless for amazon power users. :-)

riffmaster 15y ago

nice ! is there a way for visitors to vote on their favorite books & you order books based on that ? maybe even add a few if you missed out something ??

revorad 15y ago

That's a really nice and simple idea. You could turn it into a game, where people vote by bumping their favourite books against others.

ScottWhigham 15y ago

I see a blank wooden background in FF6 and Chrome 13.

seymores 15y ago
Adblock -- I love learning new shits everyday. :-)

dorian-graph 15y ago

I'd love it if there was more space below the title image. :P Otherwise, it looks okay. 2 small things that came to mind is the hover effect on the book images and the possibility of having a small blurb in the hover box for each book?

seymores 15y ago
hmm, you should see a popup with description when you hover.

sek 15y ago

Who has the time to read all that stuff?

smokestack 15y ago

Sorry, I feel like I'm missing something. It's pretty, but is this only Amazon.com's business category sorted by "Bestselling"?

seymores 15y ago
Thanks for the time, ya time being, just a prototype to display amazon best selling books.
parasitius 15y ago
Am I missing something?? If you can find people that prefer to view it on a sexy wooden background and can affiliate link them... WHY NOT? Amazon's pages are super busy.

eliot_sykes 15y ago

One thing with top x lists is they can suffer from not showing good older titles in favour of recent more hyped titles. Wonder if there is a way to account for this? So it is a more of an all time top x list?

theitgirl 15y ago

the pop-up that shows up when you hover on image is not updating..it keeps showing info of the first book i hovered over.