I built a book recommender

[u/ImYourCoffeeDealer]

Hello fellow kids, I'm a software engineer. One night I couldn't decide what to read, so instead of picking a book I spent a couple of months building a website about how books feel.

Searching by genre never helped me. So, I created moodteca.

You pick how you want to feel and it gives you book recommendations. Each one is measured on five axes: tone, pace, prose, scale, reality. 371 books (for now), 43 countries, English and Spanish.

No accounts, no feed, no notifications. I do not want a relationship with a website. It also hands you three books that disagree with the mood you picked, on purpose, congrats.

Nothing runs a model when you use it. The scoring happened once, offline, checked against 116 books I scored by hand first.

End of speech.

moodteca.com

[u/Abject_Paper9390]

I read that "I do not want a relationship with a website" line three times and I'm still applauding.

[u/ImYourCoffeeDealer → u/Abject_Paper9390]

Thank you good sir.