viking2917

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Founder of Bookship, a Social Reading app. We also make The Hawaii Project, a book recommendation engine. Startup junkie. reader of good books. tweeter of good music. Local search and travel startup vet, previously ceo and co-founder of goby, a recommendation engine for exploring things to do in your free time.
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Comment · 1 year ago
I updated the app to allow manual add/delete of pages. Then tap the page and do New Image to upload per page. Thanks for the feedback!
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks! I have not tried anything other than English, not sure how good the LLMs are for that. Did you use Tesseract or Gemini?

Once the page structure is set up from the images (via the directory upload), you can upload new images for each page, but I didn't include an option to just create all the pages manually. It's a good idea. Going to add that...

Comment · 1 year ago
coincidentally, posted this over on Show HN today. OCR workbench, AI OCR & editing tools for OCRing old / hard documents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976450. Tesseract works fine for modern text documents, but it fails badly on older docs (e.g. colonial american, etc)
Comment · 1 year ago
Those of us "of a certain age" are grateful not to look at a screen of 30 videos, all of them illegible because our eyes are old :)
Comment · 2 years ago
Depends a bit on what you want to accomplish.

I use Jekyll/Minimal Mistakes/Github pages for product blogs, where I just want to broadcast information or have it available for people to find through search, and where I need to own and brand the domain name itself.

I use Substack for a few projects where I want a stronger relationship with the audience - commenting, automatic email list building and distribution, and easy/attractive formatting. I just keep the Substack free, and don't worry about the domain name (x.substack.com) is fine.

Comment · 2 years ago
Same. The view changing every time I click is very disorienting. and have to zoom back out after every click
Comment · 3 years ago
Love this concept!

Implementation seems a bit erratic, e.g. tried it on the Richard I page (Richard the Lionheart), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England and get most random modern dates of research articles, and virtually none of the basic dates of his life (birth death, etc).

Comment · 5 years ago
Book Roulette is a Chrome Extension that shows you a new, hopefully interesting, book each time you open a tab. It also shows you a few recent articles from around the web that mention the book.

There are a few other Chrome extensions out there that do this. 100 Million Books, for instance, is very nice. The reason I don't care for it is the books are completely random, and often super esoteric.

Book Roulette uses the backed from the book recommendation engine The Hawaii Project which scans over a thousand book review websites to see what people are talking about. Book Roulette pulls from the more popular books on a given day so the results are likely to be topical some way.

Enjoy! (It's free, but the Amazon and Bookshop links are wired to my affiliate account so if you buy I do get a commission).

Comment · 5 years ago
I run a social reading app call Bookship (think, virtual book club). https://www.bookshipapp.com

App Tier on iOS, Android, Web, from a single source built with: Ionic V1 / Javascript

in-app Live Video Chat through JITSI

Deep Linking to app by Branch

Web hosting: EC2/Route53/Cloudfront

Web Analytics: Mixpanel

Server (old school: Mysql/PHP, MYSQL on AWS RDS server, PHP on the web servers @ EC2)

Source code mgmt: Github

IDE: Vs Code/Xemacs

Node + SimplePiE for ingesting and processing RSS feeds mentioning books.

Lifecycle email services through Mailgun.

Lifecycle text messages through Twilio

Blog via AWS Lightsail/Wordpress

Social media automation: Buffer

Comment · 9 years ago
This is pretty cool, actually.
Comment · 9 years ago
Bookship is social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with your family, friends and co-workers. Invite people to read along with you, whether they’re reading via a physical book, an ebook, even an audiobook. Post and react to thoughts, photos/videos, quotes, links and questions, in an easy-to-use chat-style interface. Get notified when others post and share your place in the book with them to stay in sync. Dog-ear passages with a quick photo on your phone, and even have Bookship extract the text from the page you took a picture of.

Thanks! Just launched and would love feedback. iOS and Android. Built with Ionic.

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