Pinterest-style app for book discovery. Users curate book lists of books they love, which other users can browse—and purchase though affiliate links—in an image-centric UI that tries to capture the feel of browsing through a physical book store.
By Its Cover was my final project for Launch Academy. I am currently rebuilding it from the ground up to show how I have advanced in the last year and a half. The rebuild isn't ready to deploy yet, but you can see the original on Heroku.
Although this project has been on hold for awhile, I'm rather proud of the Resourceable module I created for it. You can read an explanation here.
My brother and I both discovered the same writer from the recommendation shelf at the wonderful independent Harvard Bookstore. Since then, I've embraced ebooks, but Amazon is a terrible place to find new things to read, and I miss the bookstore experience. I wanted to reduce the torrent of info on an Amazon page and make book discovery a curated experience, where you might find something you weren't looking for—like my brother and I did—instead of an algorithm recommending based on things you already liked.