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24 alternatives to I developed a website to find books similar to my kid's favorite

I built this ReactJS/Ruby on Rails single page web app out of personal need. My son wanted a book like “Curious George” but I didn’t have a good way to find one. The tool allows you to flip through pages of books for online previews.

This is a web application that helps parents find children's books similar to their kids' favorites. Built with ReactJS and Ruby on Rails, it lets users browse books and flip through online previews to preview content.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I developed a website to find books similar to my kid's favorite launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hi everyone, For the past couple months I've been working on a website with two main features: - https://book.sv - put in a list of books and get recommendations on what to read next from a model trained on over a billion reviews - https://book.sv/intersect - put in a list of books and find the users on Goodreads who have read them all (if you don't want to be included in these results, you can opt-out here: https://book.sv/remove-my-data) Technical info available here: https://book.sv/how-it-works Note 1: If you only provide one or two…

    Nov 2025 · book.sv · its alternatives →

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    An illustrated storybook teaching Ruby to kids

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to share a project that I've been working on designed to help young kids go from reading single words to reading whole books. My husband and I started spending a lot of time teaching our 5-year-old (Alex) to read because our school district is exclusively doing remote learning and I was skeptical that he could learn to read over Zoom. We used flashcards (which Alex found boring) and then combined them into sentences (which Alex found interesting). But the sentence approach requires a lot of arranging pieces of paper and remembering which words you are working on. So I developed…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations. The plot was sourced from a group of friends.

    2023 · adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Magical AI-generated picture books, personalized for kids

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…

    2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →

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    Every child's personal storybook

    2023 · mystorybooks.fun · its alternatives →

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    So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before. I've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions. Some people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.

    2023 · konjer.xyz · its alternatives →

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    The ultimate beginner's guide to search engine optimization

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Adventures in coding

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Hands-on introduction to making a web app using React.

    2016 · hackingwithreact.com · its alternatives →

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    Design and develop astounding animated web applications usin

    2015 · packtpub.com · its alternatives →

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    Search free e-books by time-to-read from Project Gutenberg

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Help kids & parents find age suitable books w/ library links

    2023 · bookvine.io · its alternatives →

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    Shelf Joy▲126

    A Facebook bot to deliver hand-curated book suggestions

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The world's first children's picture book on SEO

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated books for curious parents

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Helping Libraries give children books & apps recommendations

    2015 · saclibrary.beanstack.org · its alternatives →

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    From the creator of Bootsnipp.com, Laravel-tricks, MyMapList.com and more websites. Are you good at building all things back end but […]

    2014 · maxoffsky.com · its alternatives →

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    Bookpin▲73

    You see a book you would like to remember? Bookpin it

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Avoid over-toying: Reverse registry for children’s books

    2016 · its alternatives →

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