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Re:Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs on Sunday April 20, 2025 @08:19PM (#43747550)
As a feature within our app, probably Q2/Q3 this year; we want to finish backfilling historical books before turning actual notifications on

As an API for you to query yourself for free, not for a while (but on the long-term roadmap!)

Re:Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs on Sunday April 20, 2025 @07:55PM (#43747445)
we built this "work-level" catalog at Margins [1] -- 12mo+ of work -- book data is the messiest data I've worked with in my 10+ years of building things with data

[1] iOS app to track and discover books: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737528718

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Thursday April 03, 2025 @01:51AM (#43565261)
:) hmu at [email protected] with any questions or feedback!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @06:57PM (#43562745)
Margins (https://margins.app/) | iOS (Bay Area-based), Backend/Data/AI (Remote within US) | Full-time

We're building the killer app for books. We launched on Christmas Eve and hit 100k users; now we're hiring:

1) a Bay Area-based iOS Design Engineer 2) a Bay Area-based iOS Engineer 3) a Backend/Data/AI Engineer

to help win an Apple Design Award and build the best catalog of book data in the world, respectively.

If "craftsmanship" and "books" resonates, send a description of some things you've worked on to [email protected]

More info: https://margins.app/jobs

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:22PM (#43528302)
We're building the killer app for books

Starting with a native iOS app to to track and discover books [1]

Focusing on notetaking and cozy social this year as we try to grow from 100k to 1m+ users

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737528718

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025) on Monday March 03, 2025 @03:08PM (#43246070)
Margins | [Backend, Data, iOS] | REMOTE (SF Bay Area preferred) | Full-time

We're building a home for readers online, starting with an iOS app to track and discover books: https://margins.app/download

We just went from 0 to 100k users in 2 months, raised a seed, and are now hiring 2-3 more engineers. If "craftsmanship" and "books" resonates, we'd love to chat: [email protected]

SwiftUI, TypeScript, some Python, GraphQL, Postgres, Supabase, Vercel

Ask HN: Tips for iOS ASO?

I just launched my first iOS app (an app to track and discover books) on the App Store as a public beta.What's worked for you in terms of app store optimization?I've personally almost never discovered an app through the App Store itself, so I'm skeptical, but several friends have sworn by it as a growth channel.

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Where are the benchmarks that show <1ms p99 overhead? That seems intense to me.
Re:Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o on Saturday September 07, 2024 @10:12AM (#41474049)
Check out the OpenLibrary Covers API: https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers