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24 alternatives to The Hawaii Project

Personalized Book Discovery via the leading web tastemakers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Hawaii Project launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   The Hawaii Project – A personalized book discovery system▲32

   2015 · thehawaiiproject.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Kooba▲141

   An interactive graph for finding new books

   2017 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   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 →

4. 4
   The Infatuation 2.0▲189

   A restaurant finding app built for the web

   2016 · theinfatuation.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Ph▲106

   An open source mobile web app for Product Hunt

   2014 · ph.bram.gg · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The Sketchbook Project▲87

   A crowd-sourced library of Sketchbooks

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Shelf Joy▲126

   A Facebook bot to deliver hand-curated book suggestions

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Kadaxis▲61

   Machine learning technology to increase visibility of books

   2016 · kadaxis.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   The Phoenix Project▲61

   A novel about IT, dev-ops, and helping your business win

   2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →

10. 10KA
    Kooba, an interactive graph for finding new books▲145

    2017 · koob.jake.run · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Analyse Asia - 62: Product Hunt with Ryan Hoover▲88

    Ryan Hoover shares the story Product Hunt with Asia

    2015 · blcw.me · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Contentacle▲114

    A simple new approach to content planning

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    iAuthor▲9

    Book discovery as nature intended

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Oyster Books (web client)▲92

    Introducing the Oyster Web Reader

    2014 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Starting + Sustaining▲92

    A guide to plan, launch and run a web app

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    WikiMentions▲69

    Discover people, books and videos based on mentions.

    2016 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Curator▲95

    A visual notes app for iPad

    2014 · curator.co · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Glimpse▲70

    The Diagnostics platform of the web

    2015 · xcor.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Web App Success▲73

    Creating web apps? This is for you.

    2015 · fivesimplesteps.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Community Building on the Web▲86

    Secret strategies for successful online communities

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Zillabyte▲87

    An API for analyzing the world's information

    2014 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Designing the Invisible▲69

    Create great web experiences

    2015 · fivesimplesteps.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Envisioning Information▲87

    A remarkable range of examples of visual thinkinking

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Winning with Data▲64

    Transform Culture, Empower People, and Shape the Future

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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