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24 alternatives to Kooba

An interactive graph for finding new books

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Kooba launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Kooba, an interactive graph for finding new books▲145

   2017 · koob.jake.run · its alternatives →

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   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 →

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   Crunchbase 2.0▲116

   The Business Graph

   2014 · crunchbase.com · its alternatives →

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   Kadaxis▲61

   Machine learning technology to increase visibility of books

   2016 · kadaxis.com · 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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   Glose▲241

   A next-generation social reading platform for ebooks

   2014 · glose.com · its alternatives →

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   Node: Up and Running▲72

   Ebook for building scalable apps with Node

   2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →

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   Chartcube for Web and iPhone▲78

   Data presentation and collaboration

   2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   The Sketchbook Project▲87

   A crowd-sourced library of Sketchbooks

   2014 · its alternatives →

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    Addr▲98

    A collective and annotation-focus ePub reader

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Chartcube▲96

    A new way to see and share data - on the iPad

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Data Analysis with Open Source Tools▲69

    How to think about data

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    BookVibe▲78

    Helps you find new books by mining your Twitter stream

    2014 · bookvibe.com · its alternatives →

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    Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success▲56

    A classic book for web analytics geeks

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Zillabyte▲87

    An API for analyzing the world's information

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Bookbot▲61

    Discovery tool from /r/fantasy community recommendations

    2016 · bookbot.io · its alternatives →

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    Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph▲153

    The network graph that holds all the wonderful reads I've ever found on the internet.

    2022 · prashantbarahi.com.np · its alternatives →

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    Starting + Sustaining▲92

    A guide to plan, launch and run a web app

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Dark Net▲62

    A revelatory examination of the internet

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Blookup▲70

    The book of your blog

    2015 · blookup.com · its alternatives →

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    Litographs Book Club▲84

    Thoughtful book recommendations from indie booksellers

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Podcast Universe▲111

    Visualization of podcast networks

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    for / with / in▲54

    Experiments and conversations about design in the browser

    2015 · htmloutput.risd.gd · its alternatives →

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    Our World In Data▲102

    A web publication showcasing empirical research and data

    2016 · ourworldindata.org · 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 →