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100 Books like Project Hail Mary (https://shepherd.com/books-like/project-hail-mary https://shepherd.com/books-like/project-hail-mary) : - Travels with Charley
by analogpixel 10mo ago
100 Books like Project Hail Mary (https://shepherd.com/books-like/project-hail-mary https://shepherd.com/books-like/project-hail-mary) :
- Travels with Charley : With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco.
- Invisible Women : Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.
then, if you love Andy Weir, you'll love this romance novel:
The Duke's Christmas Redemption by Arietta Richmond
and then after scrolling through even more book recommendations I'm assuming are just ads:
Interested in time loop, philosophy, and time travel?
which is weird, because Project Hail Mary wasn't about time loops or time travel.
This is why I dislike recommendations on the internet anymore, it's just a cash grab to get some click through profit to amazon.
- coderatlarge 10mo agotying this data to a login instead of a pure cookie model like hn seems dangerous.
- bwb 10mo agoThis feature doesn't require a login; you just put in the book/author you love, and it returns matches. If you want to vote, you'll need to log in. We needed substantial protection around the votes, and this was the easiest way to do so. Would you want a magic link that sends you a url to vote to your email or something like that?
- coderatlarge 10mo agowell hn allows voting without email
- bwb 10mo agoAh, I see, you want to be able to create an account without an email? Can you confirm that is what you prefer? We have to screen very carefully for fraud from overzealous authors, unfortunately. Email is a nice tool in that.
- coderatlarge 10mo agono ties to my other accounts would be ideal from my perspective i understand that it’s easier to get a stronger “trust” signal by being more invasive but hopefully the product will be so valuable that users will value their accounts as assets (like on hn) that they won’t want to compromise with bad behavior
- bwb 10mo agoThe problem is authors will sign up for fake accounts to vote for their own books, so having an email with each account is a big trust factor that helps us a bit. I'll think on it :)
- coderatlarge 10mo agomaybe an account has to build up cred or investment to be more trusted like on hn
- bwb 10mo agoWe are working toward breaking even on costs while still adding new features. All the money we raise goes toward those costs, which are quite lean. I've worked on this project since Dec 2020 for free, plus put a LOT of my own savings into it :) Hope that helps, and I am happy to answer questions, and more on our mission for readers and authors -> https://building.shepherd.com/ https://building.shepherd.com/ The ads on the books-like page are clearly marked, a different color, and they are partly how we fund being alive. If we had ~3,000 members, we could remove them. Currently, we have around 800.