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Oh this is so neat!! Thanks for the idea Anyone want this? Can have it up in March

by randomcatuser 5y ago

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shreyshnaccount 5y ago
I'm making this, but for podcasts!
- jjude 5y ago
  Can you please throw more info on what you are building? Have you written / tweeted about it anytime?
  - shreyshnaccount 5y ago
    Havent posted publically just yet.. I couldn't find any good podcast exploration platforms or tools. Things like moonbeam are too random and things like subreddits either too inactive or too based on human recs and have a cold start problem. Its a real PITA finding good podcasts. So i figured I'll build a thing for it. The intention is to have something like a book club and what parent was saying for podcasts.
    - switchstance 5y ago
      Check out Fathom. https://hello.fathom.fm/ https://hello.fathom.fm/
      - shreyshnaccount 5y ago
        Pretty cool, thanks for sharing! I took a cursory look, but this seems to miss the community element like the grandparent mentions, would make my project kinda redundant if they did though
hsndmoose 5y ago
Lmk if you want contributors, I was looking at building something like this as well.
- randomcatuser 5y ago
  Hey! Sure thing! Google form for email! https://forms.gle/myqMroFy2nAJR4YY6 https://forms.gle/myqMroFy2nAJR4YY6 Discord where we can collaborate on it - https://discord.gg/ZwJxNtnKza https://discord.gg/ZwJxNtnKza thanks!
- booksforthewise 5y ago
  Hey, would love to connect. I'm actually building a community app for book readers as well that helps with book discovery and connecting readers. Here's my email: booksforthewise@yahoo.com Our Instagram where we're building our community (over 50k+ book readers) instagram.com/booksforthewise -Jeff
  - shreyshnaccount 5y ago
    Can we add a podcast angle to this? Hmu of you want contribution
notenoughhorses 5y ago
Yes
itake 5y ago
I'd be curious about this too. where can I signup to get a notification?
- randomcatuser 5y ago
  Google form for email! https://forms.gle/myqMroFy2nAJR4YY6 https://forms.gle/myqMroFy2nAJR4YY6 Discord where you can watch it get built - https://discord.gg/ZwJxNtnKza https://discord.gg/ZwJxNtnKza thanks!
webmaven 5y ago
Sure, I'd be interested.
Kooshaba 5y ago
I'm in, let me know when ready
hombre_fatal 5y ago
It's hard to imagine ideas like this living as a stand-alone idea rather than a feature in a more general book-tracking platform. Maybe I'm just uncreative, or maybe I'm too tempted to always generalize everything, but it seems like as soon as you implement a user log-in system for any sort of interactivity, you would then be tempted to import a book dump into your database, and the next thing you know you're now a Goodreads, Storygraph, Librarything, Booqsi, Bookwyrm, Booksloth, Oku.club, etc. competitor. After all, most of the magic was in the community users creating and sharing fun quests and the natural curating effect of being able to sort by the most popular quests. And as you can imagine, most quests were generic and bad. "chuck123's sci-fi quest" It was also fun to see how many quests you started by completing a single quest. Due to overlap, you'd be one book away of completing other quests, usually a book you would have never read otherwise which was part of the fun, and then you'd be another book away from finishing even more quests. Too bad Goodreads' API is dead, else you could at least build interesting things on top of a "Login with Goodreads" button without recreating an entire platform. Kind of like how health apps on iOS get read/write access to HealthKit instead of all of them building their own pedometer and asking you to constantly reenter and update your data.
jimmygrapes 5y ago
I imagine this sort of Quest thing could also be used to incentivize reading, ala the BookSmart program (personal pan pizzas as a reward worked quite well when I was younger). Or to otherwise gamify reading. Or... it could be a mess of trying to tie points to yet another social media account.
fancy_hammer 5y ago
Sounds fun!
citizenkeen 5y ago
This sounds amazing.
booksforthewise 5y ago
Awesome, let's connect. I'm actually building a community app for book readers as well that helps with book discovery and connecting readers. Would love to see what we can do together. Here's my email: booksforthewise@yahoo.com And our Instagram where we're building our community (over 50k+ book readers) instagram.com/booksforthewise -Jeff

Oh this is so neat!! Thanks for the idea Anyone want this? Can have it up in March

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shreyshnaccount 5y ago

I'm making this, but for podcasts!

jjude 5y ago
Can you please throw more info on what you are building? Have you written / tweeted about it anytime?
- shreyshnaccount 5y ago
  Havent posted publically just yet.. I couldn't find any good podcast exploration platforms or tools. Things like moonbeam are too random and things like subreddits either too inactive or too based on human recs and have a cold start problem. Its a real PITA finding good podcasts. So i figured I'll build a thing for it. The intention is to have something like a book club and what parent was saying for podcasts.
  - switchstance 5y ago
    Check out Fathom. https://hello.fathom.fm/ https://hello.fathom.fm/
    - shreyshnaccount 5y ago
      Pretty cool, thanks for sharing! I took a cursory look, but this seems to miss the community element like the grandparent mentions, would make my project kinda redundant if they did though

hsndmoose 5y ago

Lmk if you want contributors, I was looking at building something like this as well.

randomcatuser 5y ago
Hey! Sure thing! Google form for email! https://forms.gle/myqMroFy2nAJR4YY6 https://forms.gle/myqMroFy2nAJR4YY6 Discord where we can collaborate on it - https://discord.gg/ZwJxNtnKza https://discord.gg/ZwJxNtnKza thanks!
booksforthewise 5y ago
Hey, would love to connect. I'm actually building a community app for book readers as well that helps with book discovery and connecting readers. Here's my email: booksforthewise@yahoo.com Our Instagram where we're building our community (over 50k+ book readers) instagram.com/booksforthewise -Jeff
- shreyshnaccount 5y ago
  Can we add a podcast angle to this? Hmu of you want contribution

notenoughhorses 5y ago

Yes

itake 5y ago

I'd be curious about this too. where can I signup to get a notification?

randomcatuser 5y ago
Google form for email! https://forms.gle/myqMroFy2nAJR4YY6 https://forms.gle/myqMroFy2nAJR4YY6 Discord where you can watch it get built - https://discord.gg/ZwJxNtnKza https://discord.gg/ZwJxNtnKza thanks!

webmaven 5y ago

Sure, I'd be interested.

Kooshaba 5y ago

I'm in, let me know when ready

hombre_fatal 5y ago

It's hard to imagine ideas like this living as a stand-alone idea rather than a feature in a more general book-tracking platform. Maybe I'm just uncreative, or maybe I'm too tempted to always generalize everything, but it seems like as soon as you implement a user log-in system for any sort of interactivity, you would then be tempted to import a book dump into your database, and the next thing you know you're now a Goodreads, Storygraph, Librarything, Booqsi, Bookwyrm, Booksloth, Oku.club, etc. competitor. After all, most of the magic was in the community users creating and sharing fun quests and the natural curating effect of being able to sort by the most popular quests. And as you can imagine, most quests were generic and bad. "chuck123's sci-fi quest" It was also fun to see how many quests you started by completing a single quest. Due to overlap, you'd be one book away of completing other quests, usually a book you would have never read otherwise which was part of the fun, and then you'd be another book away from finishing even more quests. Too bad Goodreads' API is dead, else you could at least build interesting things on top of a "Login with Goodreads" button without recreating an entire platform. Kind of like how health apps on iOS get read/write access to HealthKit instead of all of them building their own pedometer and asking you to constantly reenter and update your data.

jimmygrapes 5y ago

I imagine this sort of Quest thing could also be used to incentivize reading, ala the BookSmart program (personal pan pizzas as a reward worked quite well when I was younger). Or to otherwise gamify reading. Or... it could be a mess of trying to tie points to yet another social media account.

fancy_hammer 5y ago

Sounds fun!

citizenkeen 5y ago

This sounds amazing.

booksforthewise 5y ago

Awesome, let's connect. I'm actually building a community app for book readers as well that helps with book discovery and connecting readers. Would love to see what we can do together. Here's my email: booksforthewise@yahoo.com And our Instagram where we're building our community (over 50k+ book readers) instagram.com/booksforthewise -Jeff