One Random Book VS Oku

Oku

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2021-09-15

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2022-07-28

One Random Book Unboxing #1 (August)

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to One Random Book and Oku)

Oku

Books

21 21%

Books

79% 79

Book Recommendation

27 27%

Book Recommendation

73% 73

Productivity

0 0%

Productivity

100% 100

Social Networks

34 34%

Social Networks

66% 66

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Oku seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 7 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

One Random Book mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of One Random Book yet. Tracking of One Random Book recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Oku mentions (7)

Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good
I’ve been using https://oku.club and am very happy with it. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good
I have been enjoying https://oku.club/ recently in case anyone is searching for a nicely functioning alternative. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Building my /now page using Eleventy
Const { extract } = require('@extractus/feed-extractor') Const { AssetCache } = require('@11ty/eleventy-fetch') Module.exports = async function () { const url = 'https://oku.club/rss/collection/POaRa' const asset = new AssetCache('books_data') if (asset.isCacheValid('1h')) return await asset.getCachedValue() const res = await extract(url).catch((error) => {}) const data = res.entries await... - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
My letter to the Oku developers
I recently tried the new Oku Club app for iOS, and I was impressed by what few brave guys were able to do against the Amazon/Goodreads giant. Just the b/w minimalistic style and the goodreads user data importer are selling points to me. Goodreads is truly lacking, but because it has no competitor they are doing nothing to improve. Oku is good news, and I think those guys are really capable of changing things. The... Source: almost 2 years ago
Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads
Another alternative I've seen recently is https://oku.club/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago