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This seems to be an online/social version of Delicious Library. We have just under a thousand books in our library - and the only reason they're in Delicious Li

This seems to be an online/social version of Delicious Library. We have just under a thousand books in our library - and the only reason they're in Delicious Library is the barcode scanning feature, which makes adding books easy. Unless you have a similar feature (scan barcodes using the user's webcam to get ISBN, auto-fill details automatically from that), I can't see most people with large libraries taking the effort to enter their details. It's a huge amount of work for very little benefit. You could also stand to have a walk-through or similar - unless I sign up for your service I can't see how it works, and I don't intend to sign up unless I already know I want to use it.

miahi 14y ago
I'm not really the target audience (I own less than 30 paper books, e-books are way more portable, I gave away 90% of the books I had the last time I moved), but I wanted to try your service. I have the same advice: show how the application works before asking the users for the e-mail. I thought "hey, what if I have 30 huge bookcases, does this application know how to manage the place of the book?" but I could not find the information before I hit the login wall.
- pmtarantino 14y ago
  Hey, both of you! First, thank you for your feedback. Yes, we definitely have to make a video tour or something like that to show how the website works. The main difference of Delicious Library is that we are online, so your info is in the cloud, and you can check it from everywhere. Also, one of the most important features (although is not a feature because it's part of the core) it is that you have a public profile, so you can show your books to everyone, only sharing your url (shelfproud.com/username). Of course, we are working on extra features, mainly for book collectors (the target), like showing interesting eBay and AbeBooks listing, based in the books you have.
  - semanticist 14y ago
    From an end-user's perspective, the main difference with Delicious Library is that it looks like you're going to make me type in my book's details. The ease of entering data into Delicious Library is much more valuable to me (and a lot of people, I think) than the 'always available' nature of an online service (which has its drawbacks: you go bust and my data goes with you) and the 'show off' factor from your social/sharing platform. As well as scanning ISBN barcodes, I'd also look into importing data from existing applications (like Delicious Library) or as CSV/similar files. The early adopter of your service is probably someone who already has some form of cataloguing going on already - take advantage of that and don't ask your users to do a ton of work they've already done somewhere else. Good luck!
    - pmtarantino 14y ago
      Yes, the feature to import from a excel file is already on the way :) Thank you for all your feedback! :D

miahi 14y ago

I'm not really the target audience (I own less than 30 paper books, e-books are way more portable, I gave away 90% of the books I had the last time I moved), but I wanted to try your service. I have the same advice: show how the application works before asking the users for the e-mail. I thought "hey, what if I have 30 huge bookcases, does this application know how to manage the place of the book?" but I could not find the information before I hit the login wall.

pmtarantino 14y ago
Hey, both of you! First, thank you for your feedback. Yes, we definitely have to make a video tour or something like that to show how the website works. The main difference of Delicious Library is that we are online, so your info is in the cloud, and you can check it from everywhere. Also, one of the most important features (although is not a feature because it's part of the core) it is that you have a public profile, so you can show your books to everyone, only sharing your url (shelfproud.com/username). Of course, we are working on extra features, mainly for book collectors (the target), like showing interesting eBay and AbeBooks listing, based in the books you have.
- semanticist 14y ago
  From an end-user's perspective, the main difference with Delicious Library is that it looks like you're going to make me type in my book's details. The ease of entering data into Delicious Library is much more valuable to me (and a lot of people, I think) than the 'always available' nature of an online service (which has its drawbacks: you go bust and my data goes with you) and the 'show off' factor from your social/sharing platform. As well as scanning ISBN barcodes, I'd also look into importing data from existing applications (like Delicious Library) or as CSV/similar files. The early adopter of your service is probably someone who already has some form of cataloguing going on already - take advantage of that and don't ask your users to do a ton of work they've already done somewhere else. Good luck!
  - pmtarantino 14y ago
    Yes, the feature to import from a excel file is already on the way :) Thank you for all your feedback! :D