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A comment on Show HN: My first side project, streamlined book clubs on Slack.

Re:Show HN: My first side project, streamlined book clubs on... by angoragoats on Sunday February 09, 2025 @09:09AM (#42990784)
Why would you build this on a platform that 1) is mostly used for business communication and 2) requires a monthly per-user payment if you want to see content older than 90 days? Why not make it a standalone tool? Then you could always offer an optional Slack integration for those who wish to use it at work.
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Re:Show HN: My first side project, streamlined book clubs on... by Papamanolis on Sunday February 09, 2025 @09:32AM (#42990910)
Good point! I know there are a lot of book club communities on Discord and other platforms, but we were already using Slack and didn’t want to migrate to another platform just for the book club. It just felt like the easiest way to get started.
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Re:Show HN: My first side project, streamlined book clubs on... by layer8 on Sunday February 09, 2025 @10:55AM (#42991416)
Regarding #2, this book club service will presumably become a paid service anyway, so it’s only a matter of how much you need to pay.
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Re:Show HN: My first side project, streamlined book clubs on... by angoragoats on Sunday February 09, 2025 @11:24AM (#42991620)
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to compare paying an indie hacker for a service that you actually find valuable to paying Salesforce for a text communication tool.
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