Posted by roansh 18 hours ago
It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page.
To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc.
It counts mentions, so it's not perfect (praising a book and trashing it both count). If your favourite book is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me.
My favourite part of Startup School is when people ask you what you're working on, and then their profile and application can change.
Edit: Changed it to "mentioned by"
"Most recommended" can stay as it is
and then a new "Top all-time" should be a weighted sum of recommendations plus mentions with recommendations getting a higher weight (obviously) … l33t c0d1ng sk1llz for deducting negative mentions (as in "awful book", "do not recommend" etc)!
Why would we want to forget such an example?
Claude can turn something like this around in less than a day.
1. youtube 2. books 3. podcasts 4. blogs 5. articles 6. etc...
It seems like it didn't pick up media recommendations all that well, huh.
Heavily curated like this is one direction. Micro consumables (ala tiktok) supporting more impressions is another.
Also, clicking the link "On "...."" it doesn't bring to the exact comment, only that thread or topic, so you need to search for it. It could bring directly to that comment.