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Re:So you launched your startup here first (last week, month... by davidw on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @04:30AM (#267308)
Squeezed Books isn't getting much traction, unfortunately. I've moved on to other things for the time being, and revisit it every now and then to make tweaks or otherwise improve it. Even the contest I'm running hasn't had any takers... ok, a free book isn't the millions of dollars Google can offer, but a free book for typing a sentence or two is still a good deal.
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Re:So you launched your startup here first (last week, month... by nike on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @06:58AM (#267368)
Have you seen getabstract.com? They are pretty successful from what I've heard, but their model is different from yours.
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Re:So you launched your startup here first (last week, month... by davidw on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @07:00AM (#267370)
Yeah, I've seen most of the other sites doing similar things. My idea was to try and 'fly under the radar' by having something that's probably not as high quality, but far more open. Hopefully this would facilitate discussions of the book in question, which is something I think that could be just as educational as the summaries themselves, even high quality ones.
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