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Community-curated modern library 🎙 📚 🎥 What do you think?

by Alican Vergin

I would love to hear your feedback on what works and what doesn't. Pull no punches, please 🙂

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Alican Vergin's avatarAlican Vergin
on April 28, 2020
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    Here are my punches :)

    The top of the page made me think the site was going to be curated popular books and movies but as I scrolled down it seemed to be mostly popular tech bloggers and other personalities.

    I really like the concept of community curated collections of content, but I already feel saturated with blogger content from other sources like hacker news and Twitter, so the examples shown were less appealing.

    Hope that helps!

    READMEmoney's avatar READMEmoney
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      I'm here to take the hits =) And thanks for the feedback!

      How can I convey the message that the site:

      • Includes all sorts of authors, speakers, podcast hosts & guests in addition to tech bloggers (perhaps I can modify the list of creators appearing on the landing page to cover a greater diversity of people and roles)? And allows an easier and structured discovery of resources and recommendations by creators, organized by topics, compared to twitter or hacker news?
      • Includes podcasts, articles, videos, etc. (essentially all types of media)? I tried to convey it both by mentioning them explicitly in the tagline and placing relevant icons underneath.

      I would love to hear your thoughts on these. Thanks again!

      Alican Vergin's avatar Alican Vergin
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        I did actually understand clearly that it was all types of media, so that's great!

        But "library" evoked mostly commerically sold books and movies for me, and was reinforced by the book and movie icons (the text did not show on mobile). Maybe there's someway to emphasize "online content" more?

        More diversity of ideas on the homepage would definitely help. I was getting a strong "internet personality" vibe. I think if you had some "interest" selector using the standard genres you see on other apps "Art, History, Relgion, Science, Tech", etc that would also help

        READMEmoney's avatar READMEmoney
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          Thanks for the great feedback!

          1. I'll try to make the text appear with the icons on mobile (I think not losing their explanatory power makes sense). I'll also try to think of a better way to emphasize "all media types".
          2. "Interest selector" is a great idea! I think I'll use it both for "creators" and "collections" sections so that people can get a quick teaser for those sections depending on their interests.

          Thanks a lot.

          Alican Vergin's avatar Alican Vergin
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