Hookread
Stop judging books by their covers
What it does
Discover your next favorite book through anonymous sneak peeks where the story speaks louder than the cover. A "blind reading" platform. Read engaging book hooks without knowing the title or author. For readers- Find your next obsession based on the quality of the writing, not the fame of the author or the beauty of the cover. For authors- Reach new readers by letting your writing speak for itself. Build your audience before you even publish.
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Last year, I was running an independent marketplace for ebooks (similar to Smashwords), which failed. After its demise, we took a long look at ebooks and decided rather than competing with Amazon and iTunes, we should focus on solving a more pressing problem most authors face: how to get their books noticed in the first place. The result is BookHunch, which is an attempt to mobilize people via social media to read, review, and create buzz about a given book. That's the quick summary, but there's a more detailed history on my blog, as well as a preview article on the Digital Reader blog. We…
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Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code. Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual labor than I'd hoped! I wrote a deep dive on the workflow and some thoughts about the future of AI coding and creativity: http://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc
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