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vhpoet | 1 year ago | on: A.I. Therapist: Yay or Nay?

I'd be cautious about providing direct solutions, but generating and asking questions using AI, based on the context the user provides, could potentially help them see their issues from different angles and possibly uncover blind spots. This is what I've been doing at https://www.deepwander.com

vhpoet | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?

I've been juggling side projects while working full-time as an engineer for the last 15+ years. Most of these projects tanked, but a few have started to bring in some side income. About 6 months ago, I went fully self-employed. I'm not at a Silicon Valley salary range yet, but I should hopefully be there in a year or so.

Main income builders: - https://www.deepwander.com - https://www.readthistwice.com - https://www.iso100mm.com

I've got a background in B2B and product development, and I don't think it would be too hard for me to raise some capital, but I'm intentionally choosing the indie/bootstrapped route as I want to maintain my relaxed lifestyle and have complete ownership and freedom over what I work on and how I do it.

I also enjoy working on B2C way more than B2B because I like seeing my impact on an individual level. But I digress. :)

vhpoet | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Semantic search for books based on Open AI Embeddings and Pinecone

I've created a little tool to do a semantic search of the books on Read This Twice. I'm using Open AI embeddings to create vectors from the book descriptions and user reviews, which I then store in Pinecone. Whenever a user makes a search request, it's vectorized and then used to search Pinecone.

vhpoet | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

Have you seen this? https://www.readthistwice.com/libraries

vhpoet | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

There's a less social version with private bookshelves here https://www.readthistwice.com/libraries

vhpoet | 4 years ago | on: Why has no one made a better Goodreads

Have you seen https://www.readthistwice.com ? (fyi, I'm the founder)

vhpoet | 4 years ago | on: Why has no one made a better Goodreads

Have you seen https://www.readthistwice.com? (fyi, I'm the founder)

vhpoet | 4 years ago | on: Why has no one made a better Goodreads

Have you seen this? https://www.readthistwice.com/libraries

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber

One great way to find books to read is to see what people you look up to recommend. I've built a service that scans twitter for book recommendations from ~2000 thought leaders. https://www.readthistwice.com/people

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Digital Tools I Wish Existed

I'm currently working on your second need for book log / recommendations. So far we've managed to compile the biggest book recommendations database from celebrities / smart people on twitter. You can already save these books to your reading list, but it's not too sophisticated yet. https://www.readthistwice.com

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end

A shameless plug here, I've been working on a web app to tackle a small part of the issue here. Showing contextual recommendations from 1300+ leaders with verified quotes https://www.readthistwice.com

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: I Want to Fix Goodreads

I'm trying to tackle a small part of this by building https://www.readthistwice.com which gives contextual recommendations from 1300+ leaders. What I mean by contextual in this case is every recommendation comes with a verified quote from the recommender on why they recommend the book.

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: A compilation of cybersecurity book recommendations from 25 articles

See the full list at https://www.readthistwice.com/lists/best-cybersecurity-books

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design?

I analyzed 24 blog posts on API design (rest/graphql/rpc) and compiled a list of the books they recommended (sorted by the most popular ones first) https://www.readthistwice.com/lists/best-api-design-books.

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter

Thanks for your help! Reading the article now.

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter

That'd be super cool, sending you an email.

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter

What do you mean by "that's where the real money is"? I'm already building an email list, but not sure how exactly you propose monetizing it.

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter

Hey, thank you! Not to discourage you or anything but monetizing with affiliate book sales is a loong long way to replace a full time job. This post got to the HN front page (first time for me) and I'd be happy to make $15-30 today.. and this is the best day with thousands of visits. I started and continue working on this because it's a passion. I love books and I love seeing people buy books because of something I made. Good luck!

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter

hahah thank you! definitely check out their API, it's a bit messy, but works.

vhpoet | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter

In reality tho, there's a lot of manual work involved haha. Thank you! I get the images from Amazon api https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/.