I'm a huge fan of Literal! I've been looking for a way to move off of Goodreads for years, mostly because I'm convinced it hasn't been updated since I started using it in 2007. Literal had all the features I want - easy import of my Goodreads books, a great API, and a way to embed what I've recently read on my own website (at one pointed I'd written my own script to do this, but this was far easier). It's also really cool to be able to see who has decided to read a book based on your recommendation.

Signed up and digging it already.

I'm a long time user and 💚 Literal. Great for keeping track of one's library and wishlist, for discovery, and for sharing books with one's bookclub.

Hey folks! We'd love to connect with you all in there, so drop your username below. You can find me at https://literal.club/stockmarr

Best thing for me is that you can snap a picture of a page and save whatever section, sentence, paragraph as a "moment". I love that feature!

This is amazing! Congrats on the launch. Out of curiosity - how do you make money to fund the app? Doesn't seem like there's any pricing on the website.

I've been using Literal for a few months as a beta user. Such a good alternative to Goodreads is long overdue. I am especially happy that the team quickly responded to my feature request and introduced an embeddable bookshelf widget. Congrats on the official launch!

I really appreciate this elegant app after using the beta already for months. Meanwhile because of the amount of the reviews and book collection, I am also using goodreads. Here I have several wishes for the app: - sync with goodreads latest activities (instead of always importing from scratch) - sharing local physical libraries as community event (would be great to mark people's fav library) - for the cozy margins, would be also cool to increase the font a bit (always feel that the cursor have to travel extra miles to reach the button e.g search field. #fitts'law) - would be cool to also select 3rd party book review source (google, goodreas, amazon, or douban book) Congrats for the release and good luck replacing goodreads.@pietterheyden

Hey guys! Love your work! What do you reckon are best tips for finding Literal peeps with similar taste to you? Can you upload massive GR libraries as well now too? Andddddd what is the hottest requested feature coming soon? I am https://literal.club/Gilly!!!

The only “social” app that I keep on my phone.

Hey everyone & thanks @ellenchisa for hunting! One year ago, we launched Literal on Product Hunt. It’s been a wild ride since then. Our invite-only community continued growing while we built our the foundation of our platform and worked our way down a never-ending list of features. After tens of thousands of invites sent and after one year of assiduous work, we are once again inaugurating a new stage in our development: Today we are finally opening the doors to the public. Here’s a quick overview of what we’ve worked on in the last year, in no particular order: - iPhone & Android app 📱 - Book clubs 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 - Personalised book recommendations 📚 - Reading goals and reading progress 🎯 - Direct messaging 💬 - Literal Librarian 🏛️ - Barcode scanner 📷 - Public API and website widget ⚙️ - Dark mode 🌓 - and many others... We believe that readers are non-homogenous and cannot be treated en masse: a book may be terrible for some, while at the same time incredibly great for others. And we have built a platform that celebrates this type of diversity. Rating averages are the opposite of what Literal stands for. Instead, we have built a space where you can get nerdy about the things you find exciting. Thank you for your ongoing support and continuous ideas and feedback. Without you, Literal wouldn’t be what it is today - a home for every reader and a space for every taste, the more niche the better. We’d love to hear what you all think and are happy to answer any questions. Piet, co-founder of Literal

Looks really cool, eager to try setting up the book club for my community.

For the past year, I am reading the books discussed in Literal club. I am very happy it’s finally open to all users. All the best! 🔥🔥🔥

Excited to give Literal a go. I never got into Goodreads. Even after the more recent facelifts, it still looks outdated and needlessly complicated. Literal, design-wise, appears perfect. And you even have an embeddable website widget?! What am I gonna do with my own now? 🤨

Congrats on the launch team, exciting stuff!

AWESOME💛

Never been more excited to discover a product! Since I started using Literal the team has continued to make significant improvements every month. At this point, it can fully replace Goodreads for me, no small feat, and it's even better and cleaner! The team is amazing and they truly listen and respond to feedback. And the Literal community is truly great.

This looks really cool. I am a Goodreads user and would consider switching. I agree with the comments below that Goodreads probably hasn't been updated or added new features in a while... but do you have a quick resource where I can see the benefits of Literal vs. Goodreads?

Love it. Congratulations on the launch @pietterheyden. I am sure it would help me be consistent with my reading :)

@pietterheyden Having never been a user of Goodreads, I did build out my own reading library in Notion. I'm very excited to check out Literal 2.0 as it ticks every box that I've been looking for!