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Products that do what Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads does

1. 1AB
   All books mentioned on the recent Ask HN best books thread▲9

   I spent a lot of time going through the recent thread: Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432) so I made this website to browse through it later and get the books I want from Amazon. It gets the comments using the HN API, uses the Open AI API to extract book names, and then the Amazon API to find the book on Amazon.

   2024 · hnbestbooks.pages.dev

2. 2NS
   Not sure what to read next? Here's a list of most mentioned books on HN▲14

   2012 · hntopbooks.com

3. 3QA
   Q&A for HN users▲142

   2012 · askolo.com

4. 4FH
   Find HN threads about the page you're browsing▲260

   2020 · github.com

5. 5
   Ask Me Anything Book▲128

   A collection of the best reddit AMA's

   2016

6. 6HR
   HN Recommended – a curated list of HN commenters' opinions▲7

   2020 · hnrecommended.com

7. 7BD
   Booknshelf – Discover great books on different topics▲89

   2017 · booknshelf.com

8. 8AH
   A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications▲275

   2018 · upvote.pub

9. 9
   ParrotRead▲89

   Book recommendations from people you follow on Twitter.

   2015

10. 10RA
    Readow.ai – Book recommendations provided by AI▲43

    2021 · readow.ai

11. 11
    Readingstash▲148

    Tinder for books

    2015

12. 12
    Which Book Should I Read?▲104

    A recommendation tool to find your next book

    2017

13. 13
    Rocket Reads▲147

    A simpler alternative to Goodreads

    2015

14. 14BR
    Book Recommendations Curated from Tweets▲12

    2019 · bookschatter.com

15. 15
    Litographs Book Club▲84

    Thoughtful book recommendations from indie booksellers

    2015

16. 16
    Without Permission▲147

    Lessons learned from reddit, hipmunk & YC - in book form!

    2014

17. 17
    Shelf Joy▲126

    A Facebook bot to deliver hand-curated book suggestions

    2016

18. 18RS
    Reddit’s favorite learning books, from 3.5B comments▲69

    2017 · redditfavorites.com

19. 19RM
    Reclist.me – Share your favorite books, podcasts, newsletters▲69

    2021 · reclist.me

20. 20EB
    E-Book Site for Classics▲94

    2017 · bookeyes.co

21. 21SP
    Summarizing popular HN articles▲19

    2011 · skimthat.com

22. 22MB
    Mutual book recommendations from top visionaries▲6

    2016 · mutualreads.com

23. 23
    Limk▲66

    Smarter Content Recommendations.

    2014

24. 24WC
    What3Books – Custom recommendations from multiple books▲7

    2021 · what3books.com

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