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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:14PM (#49686903)
I’ve been working on Pick Up, a reading companion I built to make tracking books feel a bit more personal and fun.

You can track what you’re reading, keep notes and reflections, see your reading stats, build out your bookshelf, and a bunch more. Over 4k monthly active users.

Been building it solo & adding features based on what readers ask for.

https://pickupreader.com

Nit - the UI glitches/flashes as I scroll the page.

Show HN: Why aren't popular book trackers offline-first?

It was 9 am on the train out of London St. Pancras and I had just finished the last chapter of a book I had been reading for weeks and I tried to log it on that rain forest app (you know which one :D) & it just kept spinning due to no signal and then the Software Engineer in me thought - I just want to note that I finished a book, why does it even need the internet?Then I started building...

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Re:Show HN: Eyeball on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:41PM (#48374385)
Super cool stuff!
Re:Show HN: Nibble on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:40AM (#48135242)
super cool!
Re:Learning Software Architecture on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:20AM (#48107911)
Thanks for sharing! Really agree with #2 even though ultimately - we can only minimise rather than totally eliminate.
Isn’t it more of “emotional” design than “addictive” design?