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Show HN: Monthly Readers Club – Develop your soft skills through reading (monthlyreadersclub.com)
2 points by brandedMan 3950 days ago
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Hey HN. I built this to help people read more. Talking with friends and coworkers, I kept hearing about how they use to read all the time, but stopped. I definitely wasn't reading as much as I wanted either. Making time to read is hard after work, other commitments, and trying to have a social life.

To make things easier, I made Monthly Readers Club. You sign up for either a monthly subscription or a "business course" and get delivered a book that fits your genre or topic each month. Spacing a book out over a month is pretty easy and knowing another book is coming next month motivates you to read the current one.

That's the idea anyway. The cool thing about subscription "boxes" is that they have low overhead. If you consider this my MVP, it probably cost me $200-300 and most of that was the LLC registration. My plan is to market to business schools and businesses because books are still one of the best ways to learn soft skills. Any feedback would be appreciated!