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Re:Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did thin... by simplydt on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @01:51PM (#18401226)
At https://www.chessable.com we manually, line by line, imported a full chess book to our digital format! Takes ages... later, after some validation, we built a tool that automates most of this.
Re:Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did thin... by dmurray on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @04:37PM (#18402620)
Interesting, I expected this was a manual process. After all, the author has to manually write it the first time round, and inputting the moves takes only a tiny proportion of the time spent writing a chess book. And there are only (a few dozen? A hundred?) books that have been ported from hard copy to Chessable, so there isn't a huge degree of scale.