The goal isn't to be another reviews or ratings site; that's been done before. The goal is to leverage the power of your personal book community to help you better decide what to read next. Drop book recommendations to each other, post about books to your feed and engage in discussion, see what your friend's favorites are by viewing their top 10 favorites shelf, etc.

But that is not an alternative to Goodreads' public view. It's only a copy of Goodread's social system.

Why are you more trustworthy than Amazon with my book reading habits?

NOTE: Your IP address for booqsi.com appears to be run on ... AWS ... seems ironic or shady, can't tell which.

Are you purposely trying to be in bad faith? It's fine to give ideas and suggestions, but you are being VERY antagonistic. They are using Heroku FFS, this isn't a "shady" service because of that.

You are very trusting of random people on the internet.

There is no evidence to support the claims this person makes that it's not a part of Amazon itself. (I don't believe it it is a part of Amazon either, btw) It's a huge en devour to make a social network and it's got a slick interface and design.

My gut says this is not a one man show (he says "we" alot), they have _legal_ pages on their site (evidence of their priorities?), but no details on who they actually are on their about page, (lowers my trust factor by a lot) unlike a lot of other projects around here.

So, there is more evidence to support skepticism than there is to support carelessly believing some marketing blurb.

(edit: for clarity)

Yeah, we're using Heroku, which host all of their own services on Amazon's EC2 (meh), which was an unfortunately short-sighted tech decision early on that we're looking to remedy. We're hoping to transition to Azure or Google Cloud. Any recommendations?

I'm a happy fly.io customer. For small projects (i.e. you don't need 100 servers), I find them to be way better than any of the enterprise-focused players. They're like Heroku if Heroku had continued innovating.

You can quite reasonably want to be independent of Amazon-the-online-retailer while being agnostic about cloud service providers. Speaking personally, I very much want local bookstores in my neighbourhood, but do not care whether there is a cloud data centre in my city or province, or which one it is.

Double ironic when the creator is saying things like:

> "... having Booqsi be independent of Amazon was one of the inspirations for wanting to build it in the first place"