@clemkn that seems very rude to me to describe this project as a "bad" copy; in fact this site seems like a nice design and minimalistic. You should also appreciate that your site doesn't seem to be being updated - you still only have 6 authors even a month later.
The fact is that collecting books of famous entrepreneurs is not an original concept; rather than trying to claim that someone shouldn't compete with you and describing their work as "bad", I'd suggest contributing more effort towards your project to make it succeed more. On the internet, there are many competing projects taking similar approaches (see Digg, Reddit, Voat etc); what defines which one succeeds comes down to many factors: e.g. who can keep their servers up, who can keep innovating, who can create a sense of community etc. An idea is worthless, it's all about execution.
@_jacksmith I know an idea is worthless blablabla... we have the same readings. I congratulate him, same design and no source. Also, he simply took books already on Bookstck without add others. While if he had tried to find, he would have found a lot (I hadn't put everything). Well played!
@clemkn in fairness, checking again on my desktop; you are right that it's not cool that the starting book collections are quite identical to yours (same authors and books), it should have been easy to find others. @maurosicard do you have any comment ?
@_jacksmith@clemkn Before Bookstck was launched, I was also planning and prototyping Bookicious.
When It launched, It helped me a bit of research, so thats true I took some books from there. Anyway, I added another collections too, and this week I was going to submit even more.
If its true Bookstck helped me to save time on research, I am not trying to copy it. Sorry If you feel like that, in this moment I am improving collections and adding more books so you won't feel its a copy.
P.S.: I am adding the sources right now so give me some minutes and its done :)
@maurosicard@clemkn I hope that you can both maintain your projects. Mauro's angle seems that there are lots more collections being added fast. Clément - your one seems to showcase individual books better (which I also think is interesting - which books multiple people recommend etc)
This seems like a very nicely designed site and it's always very interesting to see which books prominent people recommend. @maurosicard : where did you source the book recommendations from? Is it just like personal blog posts etc where these founders have mentioned liking these books?
@_jacksmith Hi there Jack, thanks for the comment!
I found recommendations mainly in blog posts and tweets. As I plan to add more collections, I am thinking in sending out an email to some entrepreneurs asking for their recommendations.
@maurosicard awesome! maybe something for later; but it'd be also cool if you could pull in what the person had said about them.
e.g. here: http://abovethecrowd.com/2015/07...
Bill Gurley says:
"Last year I was turned on to an amazing book by Jonathan Gottschall titled The Storytelling Animal. Gottschall explains how storytelling plays a critical role in each and every human’s life. The purpose of a presentation deck is to enable entrepreneurs to effectively tell the story of their business."
him saying it's amazing could sway me more than if he just thinks it's pretty good.
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