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- cheeaun 14y agoI think your email address points to the wrong domain? s/com/co
- raimonds 14y agoDamn, thanks for the heads up!
- negrit 14y agoThis is actually a good idea you should also add filters (like "Only books from paul Graham on Amazon") and a search box. And for the UI... well hackernews style I guess.
- tucson 14y agoGood idea. I'd be interested in the same for web apps / web services.
- tzaman 14y agoWhat is it?
- raimonds 14y agoThis is an index of all the links to Amazon/iTunes/Google Play/Chrome WebStore on HN (submissions and comments). You can click "# mentions" to see relevant HN stories/comments.
- famousactress 14y agoNeat! I'm surprised to see no affiliate links. Seems like an obvious way to cover expenses.
- raimonds 14y agoThanks for your feedback! I'm newbie here. Is it OK to use affiliate links on projects like this?
- siong1987 14y agoWhy not? It is always good to make some profit from the amount of work you put in, no?
- famousactress 14y agoI certainly don't see any problem with it at all, though I didn't understand the dust-up when pinterest was re-writing links to include their affiliate code either.. so maybe there's an argument there that I'm unaware of.
- iagomr 14y agoAs long as you are not putting some shady redirects, I think you should put some affiliate links. People will buy it for the same price, the difference is that you get a cut for the trouble :)
- stevebenjamins 14y agoDo it!
- polskibus 14y agoYou could mention the use of affiliate links in the footer, just in case someone gets snarky.
- raimonds 14y agoWhat do you think about having two links side-by-side (affiliate and non-affiliate)? Or having a global swith to turn on/off affiliated links?
- captn3m0 14y agoNice execution. I really like it. Especially that you decided to do both "all time", and "Recent mentions"
- raimonds 14y agoThanks for the kind words!
- josephb 14y agoLooks great, I like how plain and simple it is. It would be interesting to include some other data, like top wikipedia links etc. Also the right hand column can sometimes feel a bit disconnected from the left when there is a long line of text in the left column. Maybe some shading across both columns under the header text would help? Keep iterating!
- raimonds 14y agoThanks for your feedback! I'm very bad at design so I kept UI as minimal as possible. But I will try to iterate on it. I like your idea about shading.
- GhotiFish 14y agoWatch out, if it gains traction, it will be gamed.
- raimonds 14y agoThat would be nice. :) I take into account points and karma of users to build list of top items.
- _chrismccreadie 14y agoThis is fantastic. One thought - once you have some data on the top 20 (say over 3 months) you could keep track of items that regularly come up in HN discussions. Show them as popular or regularly mentioned.
- raimonds 14y agoThanks for your feedback! Now I use number of mentions, aggregated points, number of users and their aggregated karma to build lists of top items.
- firesofmay 14y agoSo clean and well made! Thumbs up
- raimonds 14y agoMany thanks for your kind words! I'm not a designer so this is almost vanilla Twitter Bootstrap and all the kudos should go to them.
- pak 14y agoOne quick plug: the Hacker News Sidebar under Chrome WebStore hasn't been updated since 2011 and doesn't work any more. My fork of it is more up to date: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sidebar/ngljhffenbmdjobakjplnlbfkeabbpma https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sideba... It's useful if you want to know that there's a comment thread for any given website that you are browsing.
- tpsc 14y agoNeat idea. I was looking for book recommendations here on HN just yesterday.
- raimonds 14y agoThanks, tpsc! Another great source for book recommendations is "Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012" thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966230.
- DanielBMarkham 14y agoThere are a lot of other HN-ish sites. Usually with post like this everybody mentions t hem. Here's a top-level comment to put them under. Shameless plug for my own site: http://hn-books.com http://hn-books.com On mine, if you pick a book, say "Four Steps To The Epiphany", you get a review, a video, and about half-way down in a tabbed box called "the buzz", an up-to-date synopsis of what hackers think about the book from all the major sites. http://www.hn-books.com/Books/The-Four-Steps-To-The-Epiphany.htm http://www.hn-books.com/Books/The-Four-Steps-To-The-Epiphany... Bunch of other sites with similar (and sometimes better) features. I wanted to collect a list, but never got around to it.
- raimonds 14y agoGreat work with HN-Books!
- Udo 14y agoThe "questions" widget is broken. For example, on the Four Steps page there are three links, all ending in 404 like this one: http://hn-books.com/v1Main.htm#Q=1&Q2=1 http://hn-books.com/v1Main.htm#Q=1&Q2=1
- DanielBMarkham 14y agoI'll be danged. They sure don't do they? The whole website is static, a templating engine which runs in f# on mono generates it. I haven't rebuilt the side in, gosh, a year? Two? Looks like I had some bad data. Thanks for the heads-up. Note that you can still use the "AnswerQuestions" page to create your own book lists and share them. So, for instance, if I wanted to give you my top 3 books for smart people, I could link like this: http://www.hn-books.com#B0=29&B1=161&B2=133&BC=3&E0=1&EC=1&FC=0&QC=0&Name=Daniel http://www.hn-books.com#B0=29&B1=161&B2=133&BC=3... So the home page is working. Must be something else. Thanks again.
- Udo 14y agoAnytime :)
- spangborn 14y agoSweet! I wonder if there's a way to gauge public opinion on these links - one of the apps obviously has some awful reviews on iTunes (Vapor). It'd help keep people away from apps that are doing malicious things like stealing contacts and uploading them to their servers. A link to where the item was mentioned would be cool too, in addition to popping up the mention.
- raimonds 14y agoThanks for your feedback! "# mentions" is actually a trigger for pop-up that has a list of links to stories/comments item was mentioned in.
- ivzar 14y agoGreat site. Add tweet/fb share buttons to help others find it.
- raimonds 14y agoThanks for your suggestion! I have a tweet button but it's only on "# mentions" pop-up.
- ChrisNorstrom 14y agoHmm... Well I don't have a book but I did launch a premium 15x25 square-less wall calendar. It's at it's lowest price $6.99 since calendar buying season is over and I'm overstocked by 200. So it's quite a good deal considering similar calendars are $15 at Staples, OfficeMax, & OfficeDepot. https://dayonepp.com/products-page/product-category/calendar-with-shipping-correctly-calculated/ https://dayonepp.com/products-page/product-category/calendar...
- ChrisNorstrom 14y agoOoooH. I thought the HN store was a collection of products / books that HN members have MADE or WRITTEN. I didn't realize it was just a curated list. Nevermind about my calendar then.
- raimonds 14y ago> products / books that HN members have MADE or WRITTEN That's a great idea for a service.
- javadi82 14y agoIf it is OK, could you please describe at a high-level on the de-duplication involved in mapping the following 3 links to a single book - a) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=836633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=836633 b) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1527084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1527084 c) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1718951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1718951 because the amazon links contained in the HN comment links are all very different but still point to the same book - "Javascript: The Good Parts".
- Splendor 14y agoOff-topic, but I just wanted to let you know that I use another one of your sites (Lessmeme.com) everyday and I think I'm in love with you.
- raimonds 14y agoWow, thanks, this is very encouraging!
- thehodge 14y agoWould be great if you could also add links to audible, I'm always looking for hacker recommended audiobooks