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#63 – 2024 Year in Books

Recorded Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 58m

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#64 – Building Stats

Recorded Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 1m

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#61 – Stats and End of Year Plans

Recorded Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 57m

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#62 – Stats & Monthly Wrapped

Recorded Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 22m

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#60 – Dashboard & Inertia.js

Recorded Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 1m

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#59 – Building Session – Stats

Recorded Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 2m

Normalizing stats visual language, discussing Cursor for generating code.

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#58 – New Stats (part 6)

Recorded Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000• 1h 3m

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#57 – New Stats (part 5)

Recorded Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 5m

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#56 – New Stats (part 4)

Recorded Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 57m

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#55 – New Stats (part 3)

Recorded Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 59m

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#54 – New Stats (part 2)

Recorded Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 1m

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#53 – Awesome New Stats

Recorded Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 10m

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#52 – BookTuber Hailey Hughes

Recorded Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 59m

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#50 – Reading Journal

Recorded Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000• 1h 5m

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#51 – Best Selling Author Dan Petrosini

Recorded Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 6m

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#49 – Stats (cont.)

Recorded Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000• 1h 11m

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#48 – New Stats & Progress update

Recorded Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000• 1h 12m

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#47 – Bulk Editing

Recorded Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000• 58m

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#46 – Ross and Laura From Hardy’s Books

Recorded Wed, 22 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 10m

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#45 – Stats & New Readers

Recorded Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000• 1h 5m

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#44 – Priorities

Recorded Wed, 08 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 60m

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#43 – Dashboard Widgets

Recorded Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 4m

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#42 – Book Cards

Recorded Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 6m

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#41 – List Progress

Recorded Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 6m

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#40 – Table, Card and Shelf view

Recorded Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000• 59m

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#39 – Book Discovery

Recorded Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 58m

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#38 – The New & Improved List page

Recorded Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 57m

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#37 – State of Hardcover results

Recorded Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000• 1h

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#36 – Reading Journal part 2

Recorded Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 7m

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#35 – Reading Journal

Recorded Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 1m

Adam & Ste chat about Reading Journals.

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#34 – State of Hardcover

Recorded Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 59m

Adam and Ste chat about the State of Hardcover Survey

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#32 – Librarian Tools

Recorded Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000• 56m

Adam & Ste chat with Lead Librarian Jeff about the future of Librarian tools.

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#31 – The Future of Hardcover Live

Recorded Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 57m

Adam & Ste chat about the next season of Hardcover Live and how it'll integrate with the site.

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#30 – Book List Redesign

Recorded Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 15m

Adam and Ste prototype out the next phase of lists.

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#29 – Year in Books Sections

Recorded Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 12m

We continue working on the Hardcover Year in Books.

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#28 – Year in Books Top 10 Lists

Recorded Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 2m

Prototyping sections of the top books of the year.

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#26 – Book Discussion Filtering, Sorting and Creation

Recorded Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 11m

Prototyping the book discussion pages to make it easier to filter, sort and create new posts.

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#25 – Threaded Discussions

Recorded Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 4m

We prototype how to show threaded book discussions.

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#27 – The Hardcover 2023 Year in Books

Recorded Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 16m

Designing the Hardcover Year in Books 2023.

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#24 – ProductHunt Launch & Homepage Redesign

Recorded Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 56m

Hardcover launch on ProductHunt complete with a new Homepage.

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#23 – Mind Mapping Discussions

Recorded Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 36m

We do a mind mapping activity to figure out all of the parts of discussions.

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#22 – Homepage Redesign & Accounts

Recorded Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 5m

Chat about resigning the homepage for the upcoming ProductHunt Launch.

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#21 – Discussion Social Proof & Popularity

Recorded Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 3m

How do we indicate which parts of a book are most popular?

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#20 – Discussion Types (Polls, Quotes, Images, etc)

Recorded Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 41m

Prototyping out different types of discussion posts including polls, quotes, images, and text based posts

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#19 – Mobile Discussions

Recorded Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 9m

Adam and Ste catch up and prototype out how book discussions might work in mobile.

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#18 – Discussions

Recorded Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 12m

Let's talk about book discussions!

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#17 – Groups of Books

Recorded Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 15m

We prototype how groups of books could be shown.

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#16 – Social Proof

Recorded Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 1m

Using social proof in profiles.

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#15 – Creating a component system

Recorded Mon, 29 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 58m

Todays focus: creating a component system for Hardcover to maintain consistency throughout the app.

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#14 – Testing out Search v2.0 on Staging

Recorded Mon, 22 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 4m

This weeks main focus: Search v2!

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#13 – OpenGraph Images

Recorded Mon, 08 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 14m

This weeks main focus: improving OpenGraph images across the site.

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#12 – Designing the Search 2.0 Experience

Recorded Mon, 01 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 7m

This weeks main focus: improving the search experience.

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#11 – Designing a Librarian System

Recorded Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 59m

Todays main focus: The new Librarian system.

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#10 – What Does it Mean to be a Book Influencer?

Recorded Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 1m

Main focus: What does it mean to be a book influencer?

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#9 – Designing the Best Book Page On the Web

Recorded Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 4m

Main focus: Figma deep dive into our new book page.

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#8 – Planning the Best Book Page Ever

Recorded Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 2m

This weeks main focus: planning out what we should show on the new book pages.

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#7 – The New Book Page

Recorded Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 3m

The main focus of this week is exploring designs for the new book page.

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#33 – Librarian Tools v2

Recorded Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000• 60m

Adam and Ste chat about updates to librarian tools.

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#6 – Ask Jules, Hardcover’s AI Bot

Recorded Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 2m

Main focus: Ask Jules

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#5 – Should we create an AI Librarian?

Recorded Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 2m

Main focus: Discussing if we should create an AI librarian?

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#4 – Updating Partial Progress On a Book

Recorded Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 59m

Todays main focus: Progress tracking.

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#3 – Discussions? Book Clubs? Comments?

Recorded Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 60m

This weeks focus is digging into the idea of "Discussions" on Hardcover.

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#2 – Mind Mapping the New Book Page

Recorded Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 11m

Doing a Mind Map of everything we could possibly show on the book page.

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#1 – Designing the Book Button

Recorded Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000• 1h 7m

Todays main focus: book tracking.

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