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What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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mattkevan ◴[] No.41343107[source]
I’m working on a collaborative ebook reading app. The idea is that you can create a reading group, invite people and then share comments and highlights and see each other’s reading progress.

It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while, for example to read a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there’s lots of other possibilities including author reading parties, proofing and education. Got the basics of it working now, need to polish the UI and add the commenting and highlighting features.

I’m using Next.js and Supabase, neither of which I’ve used before so it’s been a fun but often frustrating process. Claude has been an amazing assistance, fixing my mistakes and countless type errors.

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1. pmarreck ◴[] No.41347001[source]
good idea!

feature idea- you can see the reading progress of everyone in the group to sort of apply some passive social pressure to catch up if you're behind

then again, not everyone might be willing to do this since the book club might not all be about actually reading the book for them