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Hardcover
Company blog · hardcover.app/blog · on HN as dyogenezculture
Hardcover is the company blog at hardcover.app, writing about culture. Since 2021, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Show HN: Hardcover – Letterboxd for Books”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hardcover as a Goodreads alternative for tracking books, often praising its interface, community and responsive team. Many comments only list it among other book sites.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We're a social network for book lovers to find life changing books, track what you read & want to read, and connect with passionate readers.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Hardcover – Letterboxd for Books6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-10-02
- /4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-07-29
- We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-02
What Hacker News says?
I'm not into the social aspect, so Goodreads was never an option, but Hardcover[1] seems like a pretty good alternative. [1]: https://hardcover.app
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on “Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model”Submitted We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails as a story · 523 points
HN discussionI was looking into this space the other day, and the number of options has been growing. By my record there is: - https://www.goodreads.com - https://thestorygraph.com - https://fable.co - https://hardcover.app - https://joinbookwyrm.com I was actually trying to determine the best free source of metadata for books. I was hoping for something like MusicBrainz. The best I could find seemed to be https://openlibrary.or…
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on “Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative”Submitted We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency as a story · 147 points
HN discussionHardcover may be worth a try: https://hardcover.app/askjules
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on “Transformers in music recommendation”Submitted How We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ruby on Rails as a story · 9 points
HN discussionhttps://hardcover.app/
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on “There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternative”Submitted We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and in Love with Ruby on Rails and Inertia.js as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWith books, I really don't view anyone as a competitor; the goal should be to help readers find books, as they are the closest thing we have to magic. Five Books is doing great work, as is https://hardcover.app/ and https://app.thestorygraph.com/ . The more book websites we have in the world, the better the world; each one is doing things uniquely. I am super lucky to have a small part-time team that helps make the…
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on “Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore”Submitted Show HN: Hardcover – Letterboxd for Books as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI’m using Hasura for the first time for my current startup, and it’s been a game changer for speed so far. What I’m loving most about it is how is changes the team schedule. Let me explain. Usually, we’d prototype out what we wanted to build, verify with users, then create the overall data models. For every single new feature, we’d create API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) and then the front-end. With Hasura (or Supaba…
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on “Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0”Submitted Airlists: Airtable for Your Books as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor other ways to sync status/mark as reading, you can checkout [hardcover.app]( https://hardcover.app ). My wife found it as she is also very interested in divesting from Amazon. I found a [Koreader plugin]( https://github.com/Billiam/hardcoverapp.koplugin ) as well
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on “Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks”Submitted The Perfect Startup Tech Stack? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou want https://hardcover.app/ .
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on “Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction”Submitted Show HN: I built a trending books by month Bump Chart with Hardcover data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not logged in to https://hardcover.app/ right now, perhaps someone can confirm if it allows logging multiple reads.
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on “Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction”Submitted Hardcover Report for January 2025 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGood job! I wonder if you could develop this as an add on to Hardcover.app - you could fetch people's books, images, and display the bookshelf. All the data seems to be there: https://hardcover.app/@BenHouston3D/books/read?order=owner_l...
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on “Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code”Submitted $9,207 Spent, 400 Users: 8 Lessons From Hardcovers First Year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor what it's worth: I'm finding the general community vibe, as well as the features, to be better over at https://hardcover.app
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on “StoryGraph is the Goodreads alternative worth switching to”Submitted Hardcover.app's 2024 Year in Books as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://hardcover.app is another choice. It's the one I've been using since right after the second Trump inauguration when I decided to "de-oligarch" as much as possible.
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on “The Perils of ISBN”> why isn't there a letterboxd for books There is. https://hardcover.app I used Letterboxd a lot before kids. I used Goodreads until the Trump inauguration when I de-Amazon'd myself as much as possible (Amazon owns Goodreads). I switched to Hardcover, which is a much better interface. There are ways to improve, but overall I prefer it over Goodreads.
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on “The Perils of ISBN”I like https://hardcover.app and the team behind it is really responsive to the community
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on “Craig Mod built his own Good Reads”I missed this when you posted, but I'd love for you to check out Hardcover! ( https://hardcover.app/ ). We do exactly what you described - recommending books based on collaborative filtering and comparing your tastes with similar readers. There are a few ways we make this available: • We calculate a "match score" from 0% to 100% for you with each book that we can. A score of 100% means we're pretty sure you'll rate…
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on “Ask HN: What app do you use for book recommendations?”Yep, there are a lot for book tracking. Most people don't like Goodreads for anything except book tracking; I've interviewed a ton of readers for my website and haven't found anyone positive about the book suggestions yet... I think the best for replacing Goodreads book tracking functions are: https://hardcover.app/ https://app.thestorygraph.com/ Story Graph is the lending contender as they are quite popular. I'd lo…
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on “Ask HN: Alternatives to Goodreads?”
