Kooba - An interactive graph for finding new books

Hey! We made Kooba because we love books and want people to have an easier time finding great recommendations. Kooba uses Amazon data (we're planning to incorporate Goodreads/Google Books data) and generates relevant suggestions in an intuitive visual way.

what a great way to discover the next book you'll love!!!! 📚😍

Congrats on the launch Ava and Jake. I love this idea and can't wait to find more book recommendations through this! Also: Kooba is a great name.

Just fantastic! (so sad it has only 15 upvotes though) Also as a feedback: I think you should have some sharing abilities for sure. I'd like to share the book recommendation somehow. It would be also cool if the user can export the recommendation as a list. Good luck with the product! 😊

This looks really cool, are you guys making money off affiliate links here? Also what determines the "shape" of the graph?

The design is phenomenal.

This is sweet!

Super cool! Small UX suggestion: a button to reset the zoom, after adding some books I started to zoom and I couldn't find where I was (I think I zoomed too much)

Nice!! Looks great :D

Love the idea, design is rough but I get it! Just some minor things that could make the experience better. Keep it up, I will be sure to use this for the next time I'm searching a recommendation...although when I tried Catch 22 it brought up no similarities. Also, instead of having a modal block me every time i go onto the page....maybe bring the information on the initial search screen? Its blank like google, but should probably reflect more to the idea on the initial search. Once they search that can disappear, but the modal thing gets a little annoying :) One more thing...sorry... maybe in the search you could indicate what the "original" copy is. Like when you search Moby Dick it brings up about 15 books. Will what I click on matter or does the algorithim just search for similarities in the story?