Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by odie88 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @10:06AM (#22693660)

MapFilterFold is a side project I’ve been kicking the can on for a while, it started out as a monstrous spreadsheet I maintained for a few months in 2018.

The site uses Amazon affiliate links.

There have been a few similar projects [1] [2] which create lists from links to Amazon and other stores. MFF differs by only using data from Ask HN threads about books and using book titles (or acronyms like GEB or SCIP) since most comments on those threads don’t include links. More about the data can be found on the About page.

This is also my first Elixir + Phoenix project, which was a joy to use once I got moving.

[1] https://hackernewsbooks.com/

[2] https://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by btrettel on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:23AM (#22703592)

Can you change the page titles to be more descriptive? I've bookmarked a few of these pages but had to manually change the titles to have the book title in them.

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by odie88 on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:03PM (#22704057)

Hey! Sorry about that. I pushed out a quick update for individual book pages to be titled {MapFilterFold - Book: [bookTitle]}

Hopefully that makes most of the bookmarking easier. I'll work on a solution for other pages later today!

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by Insanity on Friday March 27, 2020 @06:52AM (#22701814)

This is really cool, thanks for this! A lot of the books I read came from HN recommendations so this is pretty useful to me :)

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