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ReadRound is a free web app for choosing what your book club reads next. Most clubs pick their next book in a group chat, which means the loudest person — or whoever replied first — usually wins. ReadRound replaces that with a structured round: nominate → rank → tally. No signup. A club is just a...
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ReadRound's answer
It does one thing — help a book club decide what to read next — and it does it without accounts. A club is just a shareable link: anyone with it nominates a book by pasting a URL (the cover and blurb are fetched automatically), everyone drag-ranks the shortlist, and a Borda count picks the winner, surfacing the runner-up on a tie. Most tools in this space are full social-reading platforms with profiles and feeds; ReadRound is just the group decision, in a browser, in about a minute.
ReadRound's answer
If you only need the "what do we read next" decision — not a whole social network — ReadRound is lighter: no signup, no app install, nothing for members to register for. The host shares one link and everyone ranks the shortlist from their phone. It runs a real ranked-choice tally (Borda count), not a simple plurality poll, so the book the group can live with wins — not just whichever got the most first-place votes — and it keeps a history of every past round. If you want reading challenges, social feeds, or detailed tracking, a bigger platform like The StoryGraph or Fable will serve you better; ReadRound deliberately doesn't do those.
ReadRound's answer
Small, informal book clubs — friends, coworkers, neighborhood or library groups of roughly 3–20 people who currently pick their next book in a group chat. People who want a fair, low-friction way to choose without asking everyone to sign up for yet another app. It's mobile-first; most members will use it from a phone.
ReadRound's answer
Not applicable — ReadRound is new and doesn't require accounts, so there's no public customer list yet.
ReadRound's answer
It came out of the usual book-club friction: the next book gets picked in a group chat, so whoever replies first or argues hardest tends to win and quieter members' preferences get lost. ReadRound replaces that with a small structured round — nominate, rank, tally — that's still as easy as sharing a link. The rule from day one was "no accounts": a club should be a URL you bookmark, not a login you maintain.
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Next.js (React, TypeScript) on the front end, PocketBase (an open-source SQLite-backed backend) on the server, Tailwind CSS for styling. Self-hosted, deployed with Docker behind a Cloudflare Tunnel.
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