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Hardcover

Social discovery for serious book lovers

4.9•22 reviews•

428 followers

Social discovery for serious book lovers

4.9•22 reviews•

428 followers

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Social Networking

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Hardcover is a social network for people to track what they read and want to read, make lasting connections with other readers and find life-changing books. We're anti-Amazon, pro-author, actively pursuing feedback and just getting started. 📚

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Hardcover Launches

Hardcover Discover, track and read life-changing books

Launched on September 30th, 2023

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4.9

Based on 22 reviews

Review Hardcover?

Hardcover is praised as a promising alternative to Goodreads, with users appreciating its user-friendly interface and robust features. Many reviews highlight its potential to improve upon Goodreads, with a focus on community engagement and feature development. Users commend the app's AI tools and social feed system, which enhance the book tracking and discovery experience. While some minor bugs and performance issues are noted, the overall sentiment is positive, with users excited about its ongoing development and potential to become a leading platform for book lovers.

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This is the 2nd launch from Hardcover. View more

Hardcover

Discover, track and read life-changing books

Hardcover is a social network for people to track what they read and want to read, make lasting connections with other readers and find life-changing books. We're anti-Amazon, pro-author, actively pursuing feedback and just getting started. 📚

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Hardcover

Maker

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Hi PH crew, I'm Ste I've been working together with Adam on Hardcover for the past 2 years. 🫡 Very eager to get this in front of the eyes of all readers everywhere. No matter where you are on your reading journey, check us out! Hardcover is optimised both for huge libraries of 1,000s of books, and readers just starting their journey. It's also great for book discovery via our OpenAI integration and feed where you can see what others are up to (spoiler: reading). Our vision is to become not only a valid G**dreads replacement (which we might already be) but also a functional operating system for the book industry. When we began working on this project, we had little idea about the magnitude of the problems readers, writers, publishers, and everyone in the book space were facing. When you think about it, books are still the main vehicle for new ideas and stories. And right now the fate of the whole ecosystem depends on a few large companies. That have been doing good work in the past, but not an amazing job lately. Hardcover is part of the shift to something new. In the meantime, it's a great place to build your library. Maybe even follow other readers. I've also personally found it to be a great escape from all the noise on other social networks. Building a library and seeing others post their updates is always surprisingly calming. If you sign up, let us know how it goes! ✌️

2yr ago

Scade.pro

@stelofo As a former literary scout I am super excited to see book apps here. I wish you the best of luck! I signed up, the app looks great 😍

2yr ago

Hardcover

Maker

@nastassia_k Thanks so much for the support! That sounds like an amazing job. In the next updates, we have lots of plans for tools that make the job of authors and publishers easier. Would be very interesting to hear about the ins and outs of what being a literary scout means. Let us know if you bump into anything and send any feedback you have our way 🫡

2yr ago

Scade.pro

@stelofo thanks, Ste! I will share my feedback later. And I will share your app with my colleagues as well ☺️

2yr ago

Ardalan Pouyabahar

Pacely.dev

@stelofo congrats! this is a genuine product. beatiful branding and very nice idea. the pricing model is a bit strange though. have you guys decided about this model based on any user data?

2yr ago

Hardcover

Maker

@stelofo @ardalan_pouyabahar Pricing has been a tough one for us. All of our competitors, including the big name in the space, all are mostly free with potential premium features. We went that route as well, but I think we're still trying to figure out what the top draw would be that someone would pay enough to support us. We have some longer-term plans to generate revenue from authors and publishers. The Supporter plan we have now is mostly around helping us get there.

2yr ago

Hardcover

Maker

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👋 Hi Book Friends! I'm Adam, the founder of Hardcover, and I'm excited to share our newest version after over two years of building a community, a website, and iOS & Android apps! During that time, we've talked to hundreds of readers about what they want in a book tracking and social platform. We've listened to their feedback, tested and iterated constantly. We believe we've created a book space that feels as warm as a familiar library but as exciting as a midnight book launch party. 🥳 Here are a few of my favorite things you can do on Hardcover: 🔍 Find books - Search for books you know of, check out trending books, explore lists and prompts to find hidden gems, review your recommendations, stumble on friends reads in your feed, or browse all book by genre, mood or tag. 📘 Decide what to read - Besides all the book facts you'd expect to see, we show you a personalized Match Score from 0% to 100% for each book based on your reading history. You'll also see ratings & reviews from readers you follow and readers most similar to you. 📚 Track your reading - One place for every book you want to read, have read and more. You can set your privacy level to public, private (for a 🌶️ book?) or friends only. Use Airlists (our version of Airtable for Books) to further organize your library. ⭐ Log your reads - Rate and review books on a 5-star scale with half-star increments. Showcase your favorite books on your profile at hardcover.app/@username 🏁 Read even more - Set reading goals and explore your reading stats through charts and data visualizations to help keep you consistent and understand your own reading habits and tastes. ♾ AI librarian, Bookle game, referral program, Goodreads/StoryGraph importer, GraphQL API, light/dark modes, an active Discord and so much more! This is a bootstrapped passion project by a small but dedicated team working in public with the book community. We absolutely love this space and will be around in the comments. We'd love to hear what you think! 🙌 Join our community and be part of Hardcover's journey!

2yr ago

Cassidy Williams

Ductts

🔌 Plugged in

Congratulations team, I've been following for a little while now and it's so exciting to see this launch finally happening!!

2yr ago

Hardcover

Maker

@cassidoo That means so much, thank you Cassidy! Especially from someone who's made me smile so much with your content. Thanks for following us along on this journey. 🙌

2yr ago

SO nice. Finally, a Goodreads replacement. Really nice UI, fast and way easier than Goodreads. Recommendations will get better as more users get on. I only wish it could connect with my Kindle and automatically mark things read for me, but that's not their fault.

2yr ago

Hardcover

Thanks for the review Elyse! Syncing Kindle is something on our list of priorities. It's a very tough technical integration apparently (maybe on purpose), but we've got some things we're trying out to see if we can make that happen. Will keep you posted on how that's going.

2yr ago

Hernando Agudelo

Better alternative to GoodReads and it's just started.

2yr ago

Hardcover

Thanks Hernando! Very happy to hear about every reader who finds us good enough to make the switch from GR.

2yr ago

Deep Work Stats

Fantastic website and app for super readers! Already better than Goodreads :)

2yr ago

Hardcover

Thanks for the review, Ben! We're out here making that happen 🫡

2yr ago