Craig Mod built his own Good Reads

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• https://thestorygraph.com is another alternative
  by SkepticMystic
• Doesnt seem to overlap with good reads at all?

  I find goodreads sucks at book recommendations, but excluding the books that some random twitter replacement didnt read doesnt seem like its going to make it good at book recommendations either.

  Goodreads however remains fun for keeping me accountable with my reading goals, and nothing else has replaced that.

  DCC - Yeah this isnt great. Yeah the litrpg genre was infested from the beginning with 20booksto50K people, and then LLM people.

  by protocolture
• It’s for his paid community. If you’re in the community, then it’s not a random community and you will have shared interests - and community.
  by wahnfrieden
• dungeon crawler carl is a great series. never read a litrpg in my life and i probably won't again but DCC is really fun. and calling it amenable to LLM is pretty reductive in a stupid way as the book absolutely could not be written by LLM
  by iamanllm
• Title: Go Knicks, A Better Goodreads, 'Cheap' Killer Films
  by gnabgib
• If it's only for tracking books you really liked, it's not a Good Reads replacement.
  by loeg
• Someone might have said similar about (Systrom's version of) Instagram: if it's only for photos, it's not a Facebook replacement.
  by keane
• Who?
  by lol8675309
• author at Random House, angel investor, expert on publishing and digital books, former product designer at Flipboard: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=craigmod.com https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=craig+mod
  by keane
• This link is more informative.

  https://craigmod.com/roden/102/#the-good-place

  Craig Mod is an interesting example of someone who makes a living online through "ethical" content production.

  by tolerance
• From that link... if only Craig knew the difference between 'tenet' and 'tenant'.
  by mjcarden
• He is also a damn good writer, and it’s fine if he makes money with it. I loved his free posts so much that I bought his book, and it was also excellent.

  This website can be incredibly hostile to creatives having an income, at times.

  by nicbou
• I kinda like this guy's post with the quotes and references. It's pretty dense with interesting stuff.
  by hombre_fatal
• Specifically for his private social media that’s a benefit for his paid subscribers. 5 or 6 days of a few hours a day, with Claude.
  by natbennett
• If you want a non-corporate alternative to Goodreads, there's a Fediverse one, BookWyrm: https://bookwyrm.social/

  (I don't know how many people are using BookWyrm, but Goodreads itself seems half-abandoned. Maybe most of the publisher attention is on TikTok influencing now?)

  by neilv
• I like https://hardcover.app and the team behind it is really responsive to the community
  by KPGv2
• This looks rad and very user drivrn.

  I've been tracking with bibliocommons through my local library, but it has it's flaws. I can add books that any bibliocommons library has indexed, but there's no convenient way to search outside my library.

  by NathanielK
• Thanks, this is neat. Goodreads seems to be get so little development attention these days that it's a miracle it still runs.

  Interesting choice by BookWyrm to hide review ratings by default. I like it — I always felt that on Goodreads literature that's a little more challenging to tackle is reviewed very unfairly compared to easy-to-digest-but-content-light popular books or pulp fantasy. Making the default to have users read the contents of a review instead of glancing at an aggregate number seems like the right answer.

  by brandur