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Products that do what isbn.tinynews.org does

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   Hardbound 3.0▲739

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   DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers▲571

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    Writebook▲333

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    Paperback▲151

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    Article Summarizer by TinyQuiz▲115

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    The missing link of a bookstore's tech stack▲95

    Hi HN! I built Bookhead because I used to work as a bookseller and I wasn't happy with the software options when I decided to sell my own collection online (with the hopes of one day growing so I can open my own brick & mortar). So I decided to make my own bookselling app...a classic hacker distraction. Bookhead has two main parts: 1. an inventory management app that allows a bookseller to list their books anywhere they want to sell books (like Squarespace, Biblio, eBay, Shopify (coming soon!), etc) 2. an e-commerce platform with a CMS for selling books and letting a store control their…

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    100 Million Books▲186

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    2017

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    DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books▲124

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    ISBN Data as a Service▲19

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