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Show HN: Temple.io – Read, annotate, and search popular religious texts
- adammichaelc 11y agoJust curious; what did you use to build this?
- pejrich 11y agoRuby on Rails, Bootstrap, some python for scraping data.
- atonse 11y agoFascinating - what I'd love to see is the debate (probably in annotations) vs how verses are interpreted.
- interneteur 11y agoYeah, still trying to plan out some of the UX.
- pudo 11y agoYou must find some way of doing A/B testing ;)
- interneteur 11y agonote :)
- jspdown 11y agoGreat service! I'm really curious to see how the community will interact with it and if serious debate will be discussed.
- pejrich 11y agoThanks! We are working on getting more texts, versions, and translations. We also need to work on getting more user interaction and growing a community.
- petrock 11y agoLove this idea. Might be time to read the Book of Mormon. Also, consider giving an example of what an annotation might look like or what it would say.
- ellisonf9 11y agoWhy the King James version??
- pejrich 11y agoIt's the most popular version. We are working on getting more versions up!
- machinshin_ 11y agoHow about having the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit (and preferably for me) transliterated Sanskrit (since much of the beauty comes from how it's sung)?
- interneteur 11y agoOur top priority right now is to get as many of the languages available up :)
- arfar 11y agoTotally minor point. When you're searching something that doesn't bring up any results, it's just a blank page. It should say something like "No results found" or similar.
- interneteur 11y agoThank you, missed that
- joshstrange 11y agoVery nice clean and simple interface! I'm not religious but this is a pretty awesome reference to link to for use in discussion online. It would be cool to be able to link parts of the text to others and even cross text (to allow for users to link similarities).
- pejrich 11y agoWe would like to implement something like this in the future. A lot of our ideas require building a community first. It's just the two of us, so we need help from the community to improve this site as a resource.
- sandmansandine 11y agoIt seems like the search queries against all books, it would be nice to only query the text you're on (or maybe just a checkbox). Very cool though!
- interneteur 11y agoStill have to work this out. There might be some benefit to actually letting users know the verse or parts of verse they are looking for is also similar to other texts. Still not sure though. But thank you for the point.
- zqfm 11y agoVery cool! I had an idea some time ago to create something like hyperpolyglot.org but for philosophic / religious ideas. Any plans on doing something similar?