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Goodreads

The dominant social book-tracking platform. Acquired by Amazon for $150M in 2013 and largely neglected since — despite 70 million monthly visitors and over 100 million book reviews, the user experience remains poor. The gap between its scale and its quality is a persistent startup opportunity: a “Goodreads but not terrible” is a category Colin Keeley flagged in 2021.

See Alternative to Goodreads for the wiki’s tracked successor candidates.

Where this appears

  • Startup Idea - Goodreads but Not… (tweet) — Colin Keeley’s summary (May 2021): acquired by Amazon for $150M, neglected, 70M monthly visitors, 100M+ reviews, bad UX.
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