[costcofries]

Very neat, about time someone tried to disrupt goodreads. Here's some thoughts:

- Get people to create a bookshelf as part of the onboarding experience, even with just a few books that they are reading, or have read. What you'll be able to do is instantly provide some recommendations. Finding new books is hard! You have a nice opportunity here to drive really valuable recommendations. Amazon doesn't know what's on your shelf, they know what you've bought or "saved" to buy, this is important.

- Get influencers to upload photos of their bookshelves and do the leg work of digitizing them. Heck, maybe even make this a feature and auto-magically digitize your users' bookshelves for them. Or even better, do some research and figure out what vertically specific influencers are reading, then manually create those bookshelves and accounts.

- 10% affiliate fee is not going to be enough, you need to figure out a much better way to make money, this will be your hardest challenge.

GL