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Hey HN, I know reading books isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly been mine for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, I felt like the online book space was missing a platform that does the book community justice. Goodreads is the go-to "social platform", but if you've been on Goodreads before, you'll probably agree that it's not all that social, and overall not all that exciting. So I set out to build what I personally was looking for (but could never find). The goal: to give the book community a more social and streamlined alternative to Goodreads or StoryGraph. We also felt like…
2022 · booqsi.com
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Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts. I have been using the tool, which I called Artemis, for several months. Every morning, I looked forward to my "morning paper" of blogs I love reading. There are no notifications, read vs. unread states, counts of posts, etc. Only the last seven days of posts are available. The colour scheme is changeable. Dark mode is supported. All popular feed formats are supported. There is no reading…
2024 · artemis.jamesg.blog
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Jul 2026 · readkinetic.com
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Hey HN! I built a little side project I wanted to share. Shelvy is a free, visual bookshelf app where you can organize books you're reading, want to read, or have finished. Sign in to save your own collection. Not monetized, no ads, no tracking beyond basic auth. Just a fun weekend project that grew a bit. Live: https://shelvybooks.com Would love any feedback on the UX or feature ideas!
Jan 2026 · shelvybooks.com
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I built this app because I really enjoyed "Pulse" but I felt it lacked a few things. I wanted a web-based version, I wanted my news articles grouped together by topic, and I wanted an easy way to share with other people. It is early in the site's life, so somethings are missing, including the critical mobile app. If you have any feedback to give, it would be appreciated!
2011 · thread.ly
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Hey HN! I'd love to get some people to mess around with a little side project I built to teach myself DSPy! I've been a big fan of reading fiction + webnovels for a while now, and have always been curious about two things: how can LLMs iteratively learn to write better based on reader feedback, and which LLMs are actually best at creative writing (research benchmarks are cool, but don't necessarily translate to real-world usage). That's exactly why I built narrator.sh! The platform takes in a user input for a novel idea, then generates serialized fiction chapter-by-chapter by using DSPy to…
2025 · narrator.sh
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2020 · bookpub.club
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This weekend wanted to try out the streaming ChatGPT API. As test project, created a simple website, which allows you to create whole books by providing just the title (with optional extra instructions). Given the title of the book, table of contents, chapters and sections with text content are generated. All books are listed on the home page, sorted into topic categories. As a bonus, when reading a specific section of a chapter, you can use the chat interface to ask for clarifications, request more content, list relevant topics, etc. The system does quite well with knowledge based books…
2023 · books-by-ai.vercel.app
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Hi HN, We’ve been building CoLit, a platform for collaborative, community-driven writing. The idea came from a simple problem: me and my friends wanted to write fanfiction together, but no existing platform really worked. We ended up juggling Wattpad, Google Docs, Discord threads, and random notes just to piece a story together. Nothing felt built for actually co-writing. CoLit tries to solve that by making collaborative writing feel natural. You can start a project (story, fanfic, script, anything), and others can add contributions, vote on the next direction, remix stories, or help refine…
Nov 2025 · colit.app
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