Show HN: BestBooks100.com

by seymores on 9/18/2011, 8:15 AM with 15 comments

Hi,

Just thought I want to put this beta site out for public review. It's a prototype of a cms/bookstore engine I am working on using google app engine.

The total work so far is clocked at about 7.5 hours -- using Gaelyk is really productive if you know Grails.

Comments and insights will be appreciated. http://www.bestbooks100.com

  • by seymores on 9/18/2011, 8:20 AM
  • by dorian-graph on 9/18/2011, 12:50 PM

    I'd love it if there was more space below the title image. :P Otherwise, it looks okay. 2 small things that came to mind is the hover effect on the book images and the possibility of having a small blurb in the hover box for each book?

  • by eliot_sykes on 9/18/2011, 4:38 PM

    One thing with top x lists is they can suffer from not showing good older titles in favour of recent more hyped titles. Wonder if there is a way to account for this? So it is a more of an all time top x list?

  • by riffmaster on 9/18/2011, 9:25 AM

    nice ! is there a way for visitors to vote on their favorite books & you order books based on that ?

    maybe even add a few if you missed out something ??

  • by revorad on 9/18/2011, 12:18 PM

    That's a really nice and simple idea. You could turn it into a game, where people vote by bumping their favourite books against others.

  • by smokestack on 9/18/2011, 1:21 PM

    Sorry, I feel like I'm missing something. It's pretty, but is this only Amazon.com's business category sorted by "Bestselling"?

  • by ScottWhigham on 9/18/2011, 12:31 PM

    I see a blank wooden background in FF6 and Chrome 13.

  • by theitgirl on 9/20/2011, 7:12 AM

    the pop-up that shows up when you hover on image is not updating..it keeps showing info of the first book i hovered over.

  • by sek on 9/18/2011, 1:12 PM

    Who has the time to read all that stuff?

  • by rorrr on 9/18/2011, 9:01 AM

    The images are set to

        width="1" height="1"
    So they are not showing up.

    Also I don't see a point to that project. I can just go to amazon and sort the business books by user reviews:

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=n%3A283155%...