How We Reduced a $1,000/month Imgix Bill to $1 using Google Cloud
Switching to a hosted service ended up reducing our image hosting costs to almost nothing.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Report for September 2023
So many new updates this month!
Adam Fortuna
Our Biggest Release Yet! Hardcover v2
A look into what we’ve been up to in the last few months.
Adam Fortuna
An interview with Britt Joiner and her new book about Trello
We, here at Hardcover, always love a good book. And when that book is written by one of our community members, that’s even better.Because the community is one of the things that pushed us to experiment, innovate, and, in the end, do better. That is the case with Britt and her book about being productive […]
Daniel Prindii
Hardcover Report for August 2023
Preparing for our next big release, updates to the book page, new search much more.
Adam Fortuna
8 Podcast Recommendations for Book Lovers
How great it will be to read all day long, discovering new ideas. But life isn’t fair because we have to cook, work and buy new books. Luckily, for those moments when we cannot dive into a book, we have podcasts.From light-hearted conversations, to like talks and interviews with writers, these podcasts are the perfect […]
Daniel Prindii
Hardcover Report for July 2023
We’re preparing for a major launch in the coming weeks! Here’s what to expect.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Report for June 2023
Our monthly recap of popular reads, upcoming book releases, featured prompts, community spotlights and product updates.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #14 – Testing out Search v2.0 on Staging
Search v2.0! Recorded May 22, 2023
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Quarterly Plans for mid-2023
Edit books, select editions, site improvements, book page, search improvements and more.
Adam Fortuna
Want to be a Hardcover Librarian?
We’re looking for the first few librarians to join! Are you up for it?
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #13 – OpenGraph Images
Recorded May 8, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #12 – Designing the Search 2.0 Experience
Recorded May 3, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Building Hardcover: on “good enough” qualitative user personas
Hardcover is self-funded with a small user base, so we don’t have swathes of quantitative data at our disposal. But we still need a shared understanding of the needs, expectations, and behaviors of the readers we’re building for. We still need user personas.
Lily Bradic
Hardcover Live #11 – Designing a Librarian System
Recorded April 24, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #10 – What Does it Mean to be a Book Influencer?
Recorded April 17, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #9 – Designing the Best Book Page On the Web
Recorded April 10, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #8 – Planning the Best Book Page Ever
Recorded March 20, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #7 – The New Book Page
Recorded March 13, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #6 – Ask Jules, Hardcover’s AI Bot
Recorded March 6, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Ask Jules: Your OpenAI Powered Librarian
Jules is here to help you find your next book and answer any book related questions you have.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #5 – Should we create an AI Librarian?
Recorded February 27, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #3 – Discussions? Book Clubs? Comments?
Recorded February 15, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #4 – Updating Partial Progress On a Book
Recorded March 13, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #2 – Mind Mapping the New Book Page
Recorded February 6, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Live #1 – Designing the Book Button
Recorded January 30, 2023.
Adam Fortuna
Making the Most of Stats
How to highlight your book favorites by making the most of your public stats page.
Adam Fortuna
Leaving Twitter?
Thinking about making the move away from Twitter? We’re a much different social network, but here’s what we’re focused on now and into the future.
Adam Fortuna
The Hardcover Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Discovery Flowchart of the 2010s
We lovingly created this infographic to help you find the science fiction or fantasy book from the past decade that’s right for you.
Adam Fortuna
Goodreads vs. Hardcover: Which is Right for You?
A feature by feature comparison of Hardcover and Goodreads with screenshots.
Adam Fortuna
Introducing Airlists: Airtable for Your Books
Airlists are more than just lists: they’re a tool for you to use to find or share that perfect book from.
Adam Fortuna
7 Ways You Can Use Match Percentage To Find Amazing Books Today
Match percentage is a score from 1% to 100% for how much we believe you’ll enjoy a book.
Adam Fortuna
$9,207 Spent, 400 Users: 8 Lessons From Hardcovers First Year
What a year! Here’s a look at everything we learned during the first year building Hardcover.
Adam Fortuna
Books vs Editions: How We’re Organizing Data Around Readers First
A look into how we’re organizing book data at the book and edition level with users first.
Adam Fortuna
Sticker Contest & Beta Release!
Want some nifty stickers? We got you covered.
Adam Fortuna
Next Stop: Beta Release!
It’s finally happening – our beta release is just around the corner.
Adam Fortuna
13 Reasons Why We’re Building a Better Goodreads
Taking on Goodreads and Amazon isn’t something we take lightly. Here are some of the reasons why we believe it’s important.
Adam Fortuna
Introducing Prompts
Prompts are polls. They’re a new way to ask a question where readers can answer to find the best books.
Adam Fortuna
Is Hardcover a Social Network?
After a bunch of discussions with users we have an idea on what the social side of Hardcover will be. Want a sneak peak?
Adam Fortuna
5 Spooky Books to Read This Halloween
Check out 5 Spooky Books to Read This Halloween!
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Internal MVP Released!
We’re working out the bugs and getting ready for a public release! Join our mailing list to be notified first.
Adam Fortuna
Finding Good Books Shouldn’t Be a Slog through the Amazon
Our manifesto.
Adam Fortuna
What’s in a Reading Goal?
We’re trying something different on Hardcover: allow readers to create multiple goals to spark motivation.
Adam Fortuna
Your Book Stats: What Are They For?
Showing the right information about your reading habits can inspire more reading and help you find books you’ll love even more.
Adam Fortuna
List and Shelves and Organization, Oh My!
Book organization is a core piece of any book tracking application. This enables easily seeing books organized in a bunch of different ways. Here’s a look at some of the ways we’re tackling this at Hardcover.
Adam Fortuna
Hardcover Update #2 – What’s Different About Hardcover?
This is an email that went out to the Hardcover email list on June 20, 2021. Join the list to get these when they’re sent.
Adam Fortuna
The Perfect Startup Tech Stack?
Every developer has a tech stack they consider to be the best. Mine has changed over time – and is changing again for Hardcover.
Adam Fortuna
The Startup Blog
I’ve always loved reading blogs and other stories that document a companies founding. We’re going to be doing just chat – sharing what we learn and our progress along the way.
Adam Fortuna
We have a name: Hardcover!
Our list of potential names was… interesting.
Adam Fortuna
Untitled Book Site Kickoff Meeting
It’s official – we have a group working together on this project! Here’s a look at how we’re kicking things off.
Adam Fortuna
I’m Building a Goodreads Competitor out of Spite
It started as a Tweet, moved over to a brainstorm and now it’s actually happening.
Adam Fortuna