Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets

1. I can’t find a way to add the date or month when I finished the book. I mean, I tried adding books I read this year, but all the books are recorded as “read” in the current month.

2. I can’t find a place to add the start date and end date for reading a book, but I do see an “average time to complete” data. Do we need to add “custom fields” to make this work?

Good: 1. I’ve been manually trying to do this over a spreadsheet and run a data analysis at the end of the year. Thanks for making this. My manual work https://www.prasannakumarr.in/books-read-2018

2. Multi-currency support is great

3. Adding custom fields is also great.

Great work overall!

My only qualm is that I’ve tried many of these apps that got introduced on HN. But most of them end up getting shut down and become graveyard projects. I want to make sure the developer is serious about its future, especially at the time of vibe coding adventures. I want this to be like a https://www.monicahq.com/, small but still profitable.

Thank you for your comment and for raising the issues.

When you set the book status to 'Read', an edit pen appears to the right of it (in the same area where you set the status), which you can click to edit the start and finish dates. Please note that when you set the status to 'Read', it's assumed that you've read the whole book, and this is added to the 'Pages read this month' statistic. Conversely, when you set the status to 'DNF' (Did Not Finish), you can set start and end dates again using the edit pen, as well as providing a progress update, i.e. how many pages you read before stopping.

I've been dedicating my time after work to this project for several months already, and I plan to continue doing so for a long time. I'm going to use it a lot personally too, so that's a big part of my motivation, to be honest.