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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you!
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by vhpoet 6y ago
It was both. Started as a side toy to solve my own need, but the monetization potential got me to spend so much time building it.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you so much!
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by vhpoet 6y ago
It's actually a pretty boring technology. The script looks for some keywords in the tweet (replies included), and then we manually go over the potential book recommendation tweets. It does not include screenshots. I removed "every
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Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter(readthistwice.com)
192 points by vhpoet 6y ago|76 comments
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Please let me know if I'm missing an important book. The list has the top rated books first. American Kingpin by Nick Bilton The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Masterin
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Show HN: I've compiled a list of books on cryptocurrencies(readthistwice.com)
8 points by vhpoet 6y ago|1 comments
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Here's the list How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie 1984 by George Orwell The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F ck by Mark Manson The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger To Kill a
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Show HN: I've compiled a list of the top books for men according to 56 blogs(readthistwice.com)
4 points by vhpoet 6y ago|1 comments
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you! And yes, that's a good point, I'll see how I can fix that.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
haha yea I saw that, looks really good. thank you!
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Yes, the descriptions are generic book descriptions and not specific to this list, but the list itself is curated. I see your point tho, you'd like to see context on why we selected these specific books.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
We don't usually include recommendations that look more like a promotion than a recommendation, but he does explicitly recommend most of these books and it wouldn't be fair for us to decide which ones he actually did read.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
I was actually deliberate about adding these people. The mission here is to make people read more and some people might not be impressed by what Alicia Keys, Emma Watson or Taylor Swift have to recommend, but there's an ocean of teens
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Hey, thank you! It's built on react and node. I fetched the titles from Amazon, but there's some manual work involved cleaning them up. I'd love to be featured on https://hackerspad.net . Thank you!
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Yup, https://readthistwice.com/lists/most-recommended-books
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Show HN: I compiled book recommendations from 1300+ leaders(readthistwice.com)
38 points by vhpoet 6y ago|14 comments
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thanks, added The Circle. I'm sad it looks like a blog-spam to you, this list was shaped after a big discussion we had on reddit. I'd appreciate if you could point out a specific book that doesn't fit thematically or at least
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31 Books Like Ready Player One(readthistwice.com)
4 points by vhpoet 6y ago|7 comments
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68 Books on Chess(readthistwice.com)
2 points by vhpoet 6y ago|0 comments
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by vhpoet 6y ago
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Mastering Ethereum by Andreas M. Antonopoulos The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin Masteri
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Top 57 Cryptocurrency Books(readthistwice.com)
1 points by vhpoet 6y ago|1 comments
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Every book Naval recommended (including quotes from him)(readthistwice.com)
2 points by vhpoet 6y ago|1 comments
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by vhpoet 6y ago
It does, you can see underneath the book description all the other recommenders. Thank you!
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you! Designed and coded myself.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
I started a book recommendation website https://readthistwice.com/
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by vhpoet 7y ago
Thank you! Yea, it's hard to fully automate it. I have people helping me source and clean up the recommendations.
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Show HN: I compiled lists of book recommendations from people we look up to(readthistwice.com)
17 points by vhpoet 7y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Book recommendations from the top leaders(readthistwice.com)
2 points by vhpoet 7y ago|1 comments
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by vhpoet 7y ago
I'm working on https://readthistwice.com A book recommendation website (side project) where I compile verified book recommendations from the leaders in their fields. The product was #1 on Product Hunt a few days ago. Focusi

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