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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Sunday April 27, 2014 @04:41PM (#7656764)
Thanks for the heads up, I'll look into it
Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Sunday April 27, 2014 @03:52PM (#7656534)
Hey, what's your email address?
Re:IRC network for web and mobile devs on Monday August 26, 2013 @06:14AM (#6276107)
#chatwebdev is an awesome IRC channel
Re:Show HN: Contacts finds email addresses on Sunday August 25, 2013 @10:03AM (#6272019)
Looks awesome - good luck :)
Re:NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars on Thursday August 22, 2013 @09:11AM (#6256858)
Would I be correct in saying this is now used on YouTube?
Re:Open Source Google App Engine Clone on Sunday August 18, 2013 @03:19PM (#6233788)
It's sponsored by Google (check the footer of README.md)
Thanks for the reply

We validate ISBNs on our automated cataloguing feature.

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I definitely think that would be a sensible pricing model. I'll certainly look into it. Thanks for the suggestion :-)

Send me an email at [email protected] and I'll see if I can sort something out.

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We use a combination of international book databases and have a 98.5% accuracy rate.

Thanks :-)

At the moment it is targeted towards physical book collections, but we're currently working hard on eBook integration.

My story:

I founded this a couple of years ago because my school (I was 11/12 at the time) had recently purchased a library system which was horrible and ugly. I thought it could be made much better, so I coded for months on end to get this product working.

I submitted this to a TV competition on national TV and got the opportunity to pitch this product in front of 500,000 viewers. I received a bursary of €2,000 from the show and used that money to grow the business.

Currently the business is thriving and is growing rapidly.

I'd really appreciate any feedback you might have.

Thanks, Shane