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24 alternatives to Kadaxis

Machine learning technology to increase visibility of books

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Kadaxis launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1KA
   Kooba, an interactive graph for finding new books▲145

   2017 · koob.jake.run · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Kooba▲141

   An interactive graph for finding new books

   2017 · its alternatives →

3. 34H
   40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning▲1,359

   2021 · hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Machine Learning▲77

   A visual guide for beginners

   2017 · its alternatives →

5. 5IM
   I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o▲285

   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 →

6. 6TH
   The Hawaii Project – A personalized book discovery system▲32

   2015 · thehawaiiproject.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Machine Learning Flashcards▲101

   300 digital flashcards

   2017 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Addr▲98

   A collective and annotation-focus ePub reader

   2014 · its alternatives →

9. 9BM
   Books2Rec – Machine Learning Meets Reading▲7

   2018 · books2rec.me · its alternatives →

10. 10
    BookVibe▲78

    Helps you find new books by mining your Twitter stream

    2014 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Shelf Joy▲126

    A Facebook bot to deliver hand-curated book suggestions

    2016 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Predictive Analytics▲63

    The power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13AS
    A Speed Reading Bookmarklet▲99

    2014 · gun.io · its alternatives →

14. 14KA
    Klipbook, a new online bookmarking tool▲18

    2013 · klipbook.net · its alternatives →

15. 15
    WhatTheFIsML▲110

    An illustrated guide to understanding Machine Learning

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Data Analysis with Open Source Tools▲69

    How to think about data

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17SF
    StumbleUpon for books▲37

    2013 · stumblary.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Bookbot▲61

    Discovery tool from /r/fantasy community recommendations

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Wikinomics▲59

    How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20GA
    Geekmarks: An Open-Source, API-Driven, Geeky Bookmarking Service▲96

    2017 · dmitryfrank.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Deep Learning▲67

    The textbook for modern machine learning

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories▲72

    The card sorting method for understanding ideas and content

    2016 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Bookup▲76

    Hookups for books!

    2017 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Data Science for Business▲68

    Data mining and data-analytic thinking

    2016 · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →