Oku Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good

  I’ve been using https://oku.club and am very happy with it. - Source: Hacker News / 10 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 / 10 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

• Ask HN: How do you stay afloat in the subscription economy?

  I was looking at an email I received this morning from Oku[0] (A GoodReads SaaS alternative). Like so many others I've gotten from the various apps and services for which I've signed up over the years, the email espoused all the latest updates and changes happening on the platform. I was immediately hit with a sense of excitement and mild despair. While I love the idea of Oku (feel free to replace with any other... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

  We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with. https://oku.club Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago