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#61 – Stats and End of Year Plans

Recorded October 9, 2024• 57m

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#60 – Dashboard & Inertia.js

Recorded October 3, 2024• 1h 1m

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#59 – Building Session – Stats

Recorded September 18, 2024• 1h 2m

Normalizing stats visual language, discussing Cursor for generating code.

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#58 – New Stats (part 6)

Recorded September 11, 2024• 1h 3m

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#57 – New Stats (part 5)

Recorded September 4, 2024• 1h 5m

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#56 – New Stats (part 4)

Recorded August 28, 2024• 57m

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#55 – New Stats (part 3)

Recorded August 21, 2024• 59m

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#54 – New Stats (part 2)

Recorded August 14, 2024• 1h 1m

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#53 – Awesome New Stats

Recorded July 31, 2024• 1h 10m

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#52 – BookTuber Hailey Hughes

Recorded July 26, 2024• 59m

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#50 – Reading Journal

Recorded July 3, 2024• 1h 5m

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#51 – Best Selling Author Dan Petrosini

Recorded July 17, 2024• 1h 6m

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#49 – Stats (cont.)

Recorded June 26, 2024• 1h 11m

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#48 – New Stats & Progress update

Recorded June 19, 2024• 1h 12m

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#47 – Bulk Editing

Recorded May 29, 2024• 58m

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#46 – Ross and Laura From Hardy’s Books

Recorded May 22, 2024• 1h 10m

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#45 – Stats & New Readers

Recorded May 14, 2024• 1h 5m

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#44 – Priorities

Recorded May 8, 2024• 60m

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#43 – Dashboard Widgets

Recorded April 24, 2024• 1h 4m

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#42 – Book Cards

Recorded April 17, 2024• 1h 6m

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#41 – List Progress

Recorded March 27, 2024• 1h 6m

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#40 – Table, Card and Shelf view

Recorded March 20, 2024• 59m

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#39 – Book Discovery

Recorded March 13, 2024• 58m

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#38 – The New & Improved List page

Recorded March 6, 2024• 57m

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#37 – State of Hardcover results

Recorded February 28, 2024• 1h

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#36 – Reading Journal part 2

Recorded February 7, 2024• 1h 7m

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#35 – Reading Journal

Recorded January 31, 2024• 1h 1m

Adam & Ste chat about Reading Journals.

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#34 – State of Hardcover

Recorded January 24, 2024• 59m

Adam and Ste chat about the State of Hardcover Survey

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#32 – Librarian Tools

Recorded January 11, 2024• 56m

Adam & Ste chat with Lead Librarian Jeff about the future of Librarian tools.

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#31 – The Future of Hardcover Live

Recorded January 3, 2024• 57m

Adam & Ste chat about the next season of Hardcover Live and how it'll integrate with the site.

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#30 – Book List Redesign

Recorded December 6, 2023• 1h 15m

Adam and Ste prototype out the next phase of lists.

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#29 – Year in Books Sections

Recorded November 27, 2023• 1h 12m

We continue working on the Hardcover Year in Books.

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#28 – Year in Books Top 10 Lists

Recorded November 13, 2023• 1h 2m

Prototyping sections of the top books of the year.

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#26 – Book Discussion Filtering, Sorting and Creation

Recorded October 16, 2023• 1h 11m

Prototyping the book discussion pages to make it easier to filter, sort and create new posts.

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#25 – Threaded Discussions

Recorded October 2, 2023• 1h 4m

We prototype how to show threaded book discussions.

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#27 – The Hardcover 2023 Year in Books

Recorded November 7, 2023• 1h 16m

Designing the Hardcover Year in Books 2023.

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#24 – ProductHunt Launch & Homepage Redesign

Recorded September 25, 2023• 56m

Hardcover launch on ProductHunt complete with a new Homepage.

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#23 – Mind Mapping Discussions

Recorded September 18, 2023• 1h 36m

We do a mind mapping activity to figure out all of the parts of discussions.

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#22 – Homepage Redesign & Accounts

Recorded September 11, 2023• 1h 5m

Chat about resigning the homepage for the upcoming ProductHunt Launch.

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#21 – Discussion Social Proof & Popularity

Recorded September 4, 2023• 1h 3m

How do we indicate which parts of a book are most popular?

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#20 – Discussion Types (Polls, Quotes, Images, etc)

Recorded August 21, 2023• 1h 41m

Prototyping out different types of discussion posts including polls, quotes, images, and text based posts

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#19 – Mobile Discussions

Recorded August 7, 2023• 1h 9m

Adam and Ste catch up and prototype out how book discussions might work in mobile.

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#18 – Discussions

Recorded July 31, 2023• 1h 12m

Let's talk about book discussions!

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#17 – Groups of Books

Recorded July 17, 2023• 1h 15m

We prototype how groups of books could be shown.

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#16 – Social Proof

Recorded June 19, 2023• 1h 1m

Using social proof in profiles.

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#15 – Creating a component system

Recorded May 29, 2023• 58m

Todays focus: creating a component system for Hardcover to maintain consistency throughout the app.

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#14 – Testing out Search v2.0 on Staging

Recorded May 22, 2023• 1h 4m

This weeks main focus: Search v2!

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#13 – OpenGraph Images

Recorded May 8, 2023• 1h 14m

This weeks main focus: improving OpenGraph images across the site.

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#12 – Designing the Search 2.0 Experience

Recorded May 1, 2023• 1h 7m

This weeks main focus: improving the search experience.

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#11 – Designing a Librarian System

Recorded April 24, 2023• 59m

Todays main focus: The new Librarian system.

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#10 – What Does it Mean to be a Book Influencer?

Recorded April 17, 2023• 1h 1m

Main focus: What does it mean to be a book influencer?

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#9 – Designing the Best Book Page On the Web

Recorded April 10, 2023• 1h 4m

Main focus: Figma deep dive into our new book page.

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#8 – Planning the Best Book Page Ever

Recorded March 20, 2023• 1h 2m

This weeks main focus: planning out what we should show on the new book pages.

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#33 – Librarian Tools v2

Recorded January 17, 2024• 60m

Adam and Ste chat about updates to librarian tools.

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#7 – The New Book Page

Recorded March 13, 2023• 1h 3m

The main focus of this week is exploring designs for the new book page.

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#6 – Ask Jules, Hardcover’s AI Bot

Recorded March 6, 2023• 1h 2m

Main focus: Ask Jules

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#5 – Should we create an AI Librarian?

Recorded February 27, 2023• 1h 2m

Main focus: Discussing if we should create an AI librarian?

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#4 – Updating Partial Progress On a Book

Recorded February 20, 2023• 59m

Todays main focus: Progress tracking.

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#3 – Discussions? Book Clubs? Comments?

Recorded February 13, 2023• 60m

This weeks focus is digging into the idea of "Discussions" on Hardcover.

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#2 – Mind Mapping the New Book Page

Recorded February 6, 2023• 1h 11m

Doing a Mind Map of everything we could possibly show on the book page.

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#1 – Designing the Book Button

Recorded January 30, 2023• 1h 7m

Todays main focus: book tracking.

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#63 – 2024 Year in Books

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#62 – Stats & Monthly Wrapped

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