The site is inspired by the awesome project of Jordan Hughes: goodbooks.io, but with a 'I'm feeling lucky' type of twist to quickly get book summaries to read without putting in too much thought.
Daniel, one of my colleague devs at Deepstash who worked with me on the project, initially came up with the idea while ordering a pizza and feeling the need of a 'just order something' button. We have this deal within the company where we can use part of our time to build what we want which also seems cool to the chiefs. We decided to use ours to come up with Bookstash, which they loved. More people were involved in this, among which Ciprian, Ovidiu, Sabin, Adriana.
We realized that those 2-3 minutes we have during coffee or when waiting for our commute usually get wasted away. So for those time gaps when you've got nothing to do, you can just go on Bookstash and quickly go through a new book.
What do you think?
Is it just me doing something wrong, or is there really no way to scroll or search books? There are just 5 book covers that slowly scroll and I can only click on them?
Sorry, but I don't get the UI at all.
You can tap on "Pick my book" to get a random book from all the books available. You can also scroll through the books (left-right) and tap on what you like, for more control.
Nice. Thank you!
What tech did you use?
React for the front end and Django for the back end.