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Vahe Hovhannisyan

Personal Libraries by Read This Twice - Organize book collection, create and share reading lists

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A neat new way to organize your book collection, create reading lists with your favorite books and share them with friends, family and the rest of the world.

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Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
People of Product Hunt! Last year you helped me launch Read This Twice with a huge success (product of the day, #4 product of the week and a nominee for the side project of the year). Many of you reached out with a lot of feedback and suggestions, and the biggest ask so far has been the need to save and organize the many books found on the website in personal public and private lists. And so without further ado, I present to you Read This Twice Personal Libraries: A neat new way to organize your book collection, create reading lists of your favorite books and share them with friends, family and the rest of the world. Thanks for all of your continuous support and as always, please let me know what you think about this and if there's anything we can do to improve your experience. 🙏 Thank you! Gracias! Merci! Շնորհակալ եմ! 🙏
Ivanna Wendel
I definitely love your product! Very helpful an easy to use, congrats on the launch and good luck!
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thanks Ivanna!
Nuné Zadoyan
What an amazing platform! Do you also have links to the ebooks in a user's library?
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thank you Nune! Yes, the books all have an attached amazon link.
Gor Nagdalyan
Great product! Love seeing it getting updated with new features, but most importantly (at least for me) it has amazing UI/UX, great job!
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thanks Gor!
Ashot Arzumanyan
Nice idea! Is goodreads integration planned?
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thanks Ashot! Yep, working on it.
Somnath Sandeep
Hey there, @vhpoet The product is great. Being an avid reader, I absolutely love it. Lists really help (both private, and public). This is something Spotify nailed with playlists. It created a new type of listener - one who directly connects with emotions, moods and activities the playlist is associated with. Softening, and easing out the discovery process. I've seen that your recommendations have a label "source". Do you guys curate this manually - gathering sources around the net?
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thanks Somnath! At first it was a fully manual process but now we have a whole system involving machine learning to find recommendations on the net. The final recommendation processing and approval are still done manually. Another similar thing we do are the editorial reading lists: If you take a look at https://www.readthistwice.com/li... you'll see on the right side a mention of all of the blogs/articles these books have been recommended in.
Elizabeth Hakobjanyan
Already moved my lists to Read this twice. The interface is so cool, you want to go to the website and browse it with no specific purpose)) Good luck!
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
wow thank you Elizabeth!
Davit Kirakosyan
Great idea! Congrats! Is there a way to sync my Kindle books to my lists?
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thanks Davit! Not yet, we'll be working on it.
Páraic McLean
I love cataloging my life so this shall be a great addition!
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Perfect, let me know if you have any feedback once you start using it.
Carlo Thissen
Instantly in love with the product, the philosophy and the name. Immediate sign-up 📖.✍️
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Wow thanks Carlo! Let me know if there's anything I can do to make your experience even better.
Aazar Ali Shad
how is it different than good reads?
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
It has similarities, but there are a lot of differences. This is geared more towards sharing your recommendations with people (and the UI/UX reflects that). You can add comments/notes/reviews for each book on each list giving your followers context on why you recommend these books. You can also check which of the top 2000+ experts (we have the biggest thought leaders book recommendations database) have recommended each of the books you add on your lists (and what they said about them).
Mané
love this!
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thanks Mane!
Deep Kakkad
This is beautiful!
Arek Der-Sarkissian
Great product launch, Vahe!
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thanks Arek!
Raphael Tissot
This is nice ! I was thinking of a similar idea for a side project. How did you get so much data and quotes from these famous people ?! Did you crawl twitter or use an existing database ?
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thanks Raphael! At first we would manually find recommendations on the internet from the people we cared about, which then evolved into scanning the net (most of them come from twitter) for recommendations from 2000+ people. It's a semiautomatic process now, with some machine learning to identify recommendations, which is then manually filtered out, processed and added to the database.
Kat Orekhova
I’ve been using Read This Twice for the past year to help me figure out what to read next. Love that it’s curated - great for discovery.
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Maker
Thank you Kat! 🙏
Xiao Jiang
Love the recommendations from famous people, it reminds me of https://www.goodbooks.io/