Finishing my first big hobby project. Anyone can post and vote on Audio Books

Re:Finishing my first big hobby project. Anyone can post and... by AudioBookReview on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:09PM (#18180890)

I read HN everyday and really look up to you guys, this is my first "big" project and would really like to ask for any feedback.

Like the saying, "any project with a database is a database project" this has been the same. I have a huge database of audiobooks and related data. My goal is that each audio book will be a post on the site, then the home page, (it is sorted by number of up-votes) is essentially a long term (semi-permanent) ranking of peoples favorite audio books.

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Re:Finishing my first big hobby project. Anyone can post and... by gus_massa on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:44PM (#18181045)

Sorting only by upvotes will make some "classic" books be on top forever. You need to add some variation to keep the front page fresh. In HN the algorithm is essentially upvotes/age^2, so new post have a chance. (Actually, its upvotes/age^1.5 or 1.6 or some other magic number. You have to tweak it until the result looks nice.)

And you can add some other orders like https://news.ycombinator.com/best or https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%20&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p... if you want.

I agree with btian that it's a bad idea to link to pirated versions of the books. The copyright holders may not find the disclaimer at the bottom relevant.

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Re:Finishing my first big hobby project. Anyone can post and... by just_one_time_ on Sunday October 14, 2018 @03:26PM (#18214668)

Thank you for that.

I thought a lot about ranking and hope that site can be a semi-permanent ranking of the internet's favorite audio books (right now it seems to just be a joke about keeping Broke Back Mountain at the top of the hopepage).

What do you think about this idea, like wikipeia for audio books,.

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