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by jordanmessina 4902 days ago
Very cool. Somewhat similar to my book discovery app http://quotab.ly (discover via random quotes). Where did you end up getting your data? Did you scrape Amazon or are you using their API?
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hmason 4902 days ago
Both, actually. The API is too slow to use live for this app.
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jordanmessina 4902 days ago
Nice, any plans to do more with it?
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hmason 4902 days ago
Yes! This was really just to establish the base case -- is randomly 'walking' through all books available interesting?
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