Like, even when you have access to the site's entire API and can write your own client for it, there's still the fact that their recommendations are generally better.
It sounds like an extremely important value-add. There are many sites that I will only use the app for because that is where the recommendations are shown. But to me taking a user profile and an article and spitting out a list of articles seems like magic.
I also find it weird that in 2020 Goodreads is the status quo for book recommendations.
Like, even when you have access to the site's entire API and can write your own client for it, there's still the fact that their recommendations are generally better.
It sounds like an extremely important value-add. There are many sites that I will only use the app for because that is where the recommendations are shown. But to me taking a user profile and an article and spitting out a list of articles seems like magic.
I also find it weird that in 2020 Goodreads is the status quo for book recommendations.