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@jordan__hughes This is fantastic! Can’t wait for the newsletter 🎉

@haydenbleasel Thanks man – I've been meaning to add your books!

@jordan__hughes Hi Jordan, first of all kudos for your hustle, and your product looks amazing. I am documenting journey of makers, creators, entrepreneurs through out the world. The goal is to do a short interview, capture it in video, and let it out to the world, so that others can get inspiration. And also to get an acknowledgement, for you, and for your hustle. I would like to request you to email me, so that we can schedule some time, at tellmeaboutit510@gmail.com . Thanks, and good luck! Subodh

@jordan__hughes incredibly well done on all fronts - design, implementation, affiliate model - Good Books feels authentic.

@gmail @subodh__ Thanks for the support! You can reach me anytime via hi@jordanhughes.co 🙂

@annaqcheng Thanks Anna 🤗

This is a great project!

I often choose interesting books from various tops, but most of all I like fantasy about superheroes and detective stories. I also find popular science literature and books on business topics useful. But in order to read them, I need to have free time, the opportunity to concentrate and delve into reading. While books like the Cradle Series relax me. I think many people have the feeling that they want to choose a book to suit their mood. Therefore, I hope there are books on various topics in your collection so that everyone can find something interesting for themselves.

@callmevlad @bryantchou @jordan_hughes1 @scottmathson Automating this further would be the dream! I've added a submission form to the site which is a baby step towards that. At the moment, I've just hacked together a mega Airtable which batch imports 90% of the manual work straight into Webflow's CMS. I'd like to explore taking this a step further and automate changes using Zapier or similar... I haven't had any experience with this before. On the community front – that could be the next evolution! I'm exploring what's possible with MemberStack to see what's possible with nocode solutions at the moment. Really appreciate the feedback! 🤗

@jordan_hughes1 solid setup - great you’re making use of these tools for quick MVPs, further validation, and iterate and rework later. Let me know if you want any insights on custom development/code approach - happy to help and answer q’s. Solid launch day, congrats!

@jordan_hughes1 and for what it’s worth: I see a big opportunity beyond the affiliate model, too. You’ve consolidated hours upon hours of podcast interview book recommendations and other sources into a dataset here that I know other publishers and creators could and would love to utilize! Very marketable API here!

@abityastunggal Thanks legend!

@ali_malek Iron and oak

@mhadidg These are awesome suggestions, thanks Mustapha! I'm chipping away at adding the Goodreads links – I hadn't considered pulling in the scores/page count as well 🙂 Thanks for the feedback!

@chris_wray Thanks Chris! Hope it's useful

@jordan__hughes I think it will be. Also, love Webflow. And the designer on this is really gifted! I wish I was that good. (:

@chris_wray Webflow is 🔥🔥

@dansiepen Thanks Dan 🙌appreciate the early feedback!

@abrar_latif Thank you !

@onur_ekinci Thanks Onur! Appreciate the support man ✌️

@marie_dostoewskaya Great to hear you found it helpful 😊

@zellersamuel1 100% agree. Thanks for the feedback! It's on the roadmap and will probably end up being a mix of both at this point

@jordan__hughes Superb! You get my upvote. I have a book published since 2018 by an indie publisher that is selling very well, unfortunately the publisher is not getting much from Amazon sales. A few more % of sales towards indie bookshops and publishers can really make a difference. All the best for your project!

@zellersamuel1 +1 on this. We need to support small business owners now more than ever.

@coolnalu thanks Terry! I got a little obsessed 😅

@davidoudiette Hey David, thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree that we could all do with less of the same book recommendations (I've lost track of how many times people have asked me if I've read Sapiens). Even though I'm adding a diverse mix of people, there's always going to be a bunch of books that people recommend time and again. For those who aren't as well-read as you, they may find this valuable and may have never heard of many of the books in the top 100. For those who have checked out all the classics, I've added "curated" top lists to keep things interesting. The intention with these lists is to recommended books that people may not have heard of before and aren't as widely recommended. My most recent list on design books features mostly books with only 1-2 recommendations on the site, sometimes none: https://www.goodbooks.io/blog/es...

@jordan__hughes Hey there Jordan! Yeah, guess I'm getting a little annoyed at the never ending list of reading recommendations with Sapiens / Thinking Fast and Slow / etc. I've read them. They're decent books. Not sure either of them will stand the test of time. They have all the ingredients of flash-in-the-pan literature. What you're converging toward here is also what I found lately to be the best source of recommendations: something like Fivebooks.com. Someone who's a specialist about a given topic lists their 5 (not 10, 20, 500) top books in that domain. That's highly specialized and curated information. I think that's the right direction to go in. Fewer books, longer explanations about *why* they're the right one (i.e. what do people who are the best in that domain look for, what constitutes a good book), and also explaining why other books you might consider have *not* been included. That's a much deeper and more efficient way to orient yourself when trying to pick books.

@lucas_le_ray 100%! I didn't think of this and it was mentioned earlier. Going to add it to the list 😊

@liching_hoe Appreciate the feedback! This project started with me trying to curate what books I'm reading so it's great to hear you found it helpful 🙂

@jordan_hughes1 @vishipedia Awesome! Thanks for the support 🤗

@vhpoet Thanks Vahe! Love your site as well 🤗

@dhvanilp @weirdowizard Thanks Darshan – big fan of productdisrupt.com also! I tried to automate/script as much as I could but there's still a LOT of manual work, unfortunately. Usually I follow a process of a) search for obvious interviews/recommendations that they've made publicly; b) search through their twitter feed; c) reach out to them directly (if I think they may respond). Two interesting insights – of the thousands of books on the site, the top recommended books only have 20-30 recommendations so there wasn't as much correlation as I expected! And only about 30-40% of the people I reached out to responded to be included in the project and get a backlink which I didn't understand...

@dhvanilp @jordan__hughes Thank you for your kind words. I understand, not everybody is going to respond. But I like how you've approached it, keep up with it. I'm definitely going to share this in the Product Disrupt Newsletter.

@dhvanilp @weirdowizard Awesome, thanks for the support! 🤗