Re:Show HN: 73,530 free book summaries in 40 languages (with...
by jazz3020 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:19PM
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Okay, that's fair. It isn't that many, but it's still 10x more than the industry leader, Blinkist, though. A good start.
As a small company, we currently need to sacrifice the first reader's experience for the sake of spreading out the costs over time. But every subsequent read is cached!
Well the most obvious reason is that the summary page would load faster. I clicked on a book summary and it took much longer to render than even a bloated web app usually takes.
73k summaries isn't that many. If your site gets any traction most of those summaries will be hit repeatedly and will have to generate anyway. Creating the summaries in advance would also allow you to test and verify the output, if you're interested in that.