1. Been thinking about doing book reviews on the blog actually. Any tips/ideas for crowdsourcing it and getting the community involved? Maybe I'll try using the forum for that.

2. Will try to do updates every few months or so in the future, don't want the interviews to get stale!

hey courtland, another big fan of indiehackers here. keep up the good work! Consider this suggestion as my form of paying it forward. ;)

Don't do book reviews and the value of your site is in the data. What you should do is, for every interview, add a question in the form of "what books do you read" or "what do you recommend people should read?". Then for every book listed, add an amazon affiliate link (don't forget to be transparent about this - honesty is the best policy!) so that it provides some revenue and diversifies your income.

Now here is the kicker -> Add every suggested book as a data point and collate it all into a table(s) as a separate page on indiehackers! You can use all sort of filters such as number of times suggested, genre based on founder types, etc. For the sort of audience you have, there will be very interested in the number of times a book has been suggested rather than the book review itself.

Hope that helps. If you need a sounding board and perhaps a hand, my email is in my profile.

Agreed. This is a good outline for integrating books smoothly into the site. Moreover, this could be expanded to other types of products like useful (actually used) tools/resources: hosting companies, billing automation systems, analytics software, etc. Many of these will also have affiliate link programs and/or can be approached for paid sponsorship deals. Considering the site's growing traffic it could bring significant money while serving relevant ads.

This is what I have seen on a lot of sites that have a podcast. Specifically the Tim Ferris podcast page.

I did it where I correlated the recommendations across all of the entrepreneurial podcasts I listen to:

http://blog.startopz.com/recommended-books-entrepreneurial-p...

this might be relevant here - https://www.highlyreco.com/

Have you seen this? - https://www.highlyreco.com/

You may want to disclose that this is your site before you post it in multiple places on the thread.

sorry.. thanks for the tip.. Will definitely do that next time..

disclosure - one of the makers here..