Dec 5: Our reading choices change based on our mood 💆♂️. What if Goodreads understood that?
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Dec 5: Our reading choices change based on our mood 💆♂️. What if Goodreads understood that?
Storygraph: An app for you to track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood and your favorite topics. Reddit certified ✅
Featuring an Indie app today. If you're planning to set a 🎯 reading goal for 2022, this one's for you.
A. The Problem and The Pitch
How do you keep track of the books you read? 📚
You've probably heard of (the Amazon-owned) Goodreads. But if you're like one of the thousands of people on this subreddit question, you're not satisfied with its dated and clunky experience 😩
Reddit power users are opinionated. And when they coalesce around a topic as passionate as reading, you take notice. Storygraph has 20+ rave reviews throughout this discussion 🤯👇
TL;DR: Storygraph is an app for you to track your reading and choose your next book. With a minimal, easy-to-use experience ✨
And yes, you can import your Goodreads progress. In a jiffy.
B. What's special?
It lives up to the expectation of what you'd expect of a book tracking app in 2022. Without any frills 🤩
😎 Minimal design: No frills design ensures the website real estate is reserved for the essentials. All the way from the onboarding experience to the homepage. No ads too!
🥸 Focus on your 'reading mood': Storygraph understands that you might be a widely different reader depending on your mood. And this theme is apparent everywhere - from the onboarding survey to the way you review a book
A short onboarding survey to help with your book recommendations ⭐ Thoughtful rating system: Not only does Storygraph allow you to rate in half and quarter stars but it also showcases book reviews in a more useful way. It displays 'mood labels' first and then the overall rating at the bottom.
Book reviews start off with the ‘book moods’ on top and flow down to the character details in the book. The overall rating comes at the last. 💌 Built with the community: The advantage of being an Indie business is that you're more connected with your users and can iterate rapidly. The option to mark books as 📕'Did Not Finish', 🧗 create and join reading challenges, 📈 view fun reading stats, and 🤝 interact with similar users are just some of the key highlights
C. What's more?
🎬 If you like Storygraph, you should absolutely try Letterboxd for movies!
📊 Storygraph has detailed stats that you can share! (Unlike Goodreads)
Why should Spotify have all the fun?
D. What’s next in the 🗓️ App Advent Calendar?
⚡ Dec 6: Blazing fast universal search (Smart spotlight search for the web)
🤯 Dec 7: Notion for presentations (A presentation format for modern teams. No design skills required)
⏳ Dec 8: Your personal assistant for tracking time (Don’t let WFH wear you off!)