We’ve been experimenting with a recommendation engine for a few weeks now, and recently we made it available to everyone! This has been an interesting project for us because it was our first experience with machine learning. We had a lot to learn, and will definitely continue to learn more as we improve the engine over time. How does it work? Our recommendation engine looks […]
One of the first features I built for Bookhype was the ability to follow a series. This was important to me because it’s something I’ve been trying to do already on existing platforms, and I thought it would be amazing for Bookhype to do it properly. On Goodreads I have a shelf called series-to-continue. Any time I decide I want to “follow” a series, I […]
Settling on features for Bookhype has been an interesting challenge. I was constantly asking myself, “What do people want?” or “I know people want this, should I do it?” or “But I know some people DON’T want that, so what do I do?” One example of such a feature was supporting multiple editions of the same book. I knew right away that I wanted to […]
