#162 - A Good Feeling

#162

                            January 1, 2024

                #162 - A Good Feeling

                        Feeling good about what 2024 has in store for StoryGraph, three exciting releases in the last two weeks, and what I'm working on for the next two!

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#162 | 1 January 2024

A Good Feeling

Happy New Year, y'all! 🎉

Now, I don't know about you, but I'm feeling good, great even, about what 2024 has in store for The StoryGraph.

We've entered the year with a solid cadence of releases — more on that below — and I see it continuing, bringing to the app more maturity, especially in terms of functionality and UI/UX.

Well...let's see!! 💪🏾

(Oh and thank you sooo very much for all of your love and support in 2023. It's invaluable and very much appreciated! 🥰)

Since last time...

What a WILD two weeks that was!

Here are the top three releases:

First, the overhaul of the recommendations section finally went live!! 🥹

Second, we launched the barcode scanner! 🥳

Now, post its launch, we had some drama with Android phones that had wide-angle lenses but I managed to eventually resolve it, mainly with massive support from our wonderful volunteer StoryGraph Librarian community, especially Malka who spent over two hours on a voice call with me testing things on her phone while I troubleshooted. 🫶🏾

Not only do we have the scanner in the main search bar, we have an Owned Books one, which automatically marks books you scan as owned!

And finally, we launched our 2023 Wrap-Up, complete with some new shareable graphics! 🤩

I have to give a huge thank you to bestie (and Rob's wife), Saron, for massively levelling up the first draft of the design I had for this (which was still pretty good, if I do say so myself 😌).

What percentage of my 2023 reads have you read?

Next two weeks

I really want to get the two new styles of reading challenges out today or tomorrow and then it'll be back to book clubs!

What I'm reading

Early December, a friend and I went to a bookstore and selected for the other a book we really liked in 2023 that they didn't know much/anything about. I chose Severance by Ling Ma for her and she chose Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus for me. Knew nothing about it going in and loving it so far!

Have a great week,

Nadia

P.S. Know somebody who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey? Please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)

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