Literal 2.0

Discover, organise & discuss booksHey everyone & thanks @ellenchisa for hunting!

One year ago, we launched Literal on Product Hunt. It’s been a wild ride since then.

Our invite-only community continued growing while we built our the foundation of our platform and worked our way down a never-ending list of features. After tens of thousands of invites sent and after one year of assiduous work, we are once again inaugurating a new stage in our development:

Today we are finally opening the doors to the public.

Here’s a quick overview of what we’ve worked on in the last year, in no particular order:

- iPhone & Android app 📱 - Book clubs 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 - Personalised book recommendations 📚 - Reading goals and reading progress 🎯 - Direct messaging 💬 - Literal Librarian 🏛️ - Barcode scanner 📷 - Public API and website widget ⚙️ - Dark mode 🌓 - and many others...

We believe that readers are non-homogenous and cannot be treated en masse: a book may be terrible for some, while at the same time incredibly great for others. And we have built a platform that celebrates this type of diversity. Rating averages are the opposite of what Literal stands for. Instead, we have built a space where you can get nerdy about the things you find exciting.

Thank you for your ongoing support and continuous ideas and feedback. Without you, Literal wouldn’t be what it is today - a home for every reader and a space for every taste, the more niche the better.

We’d love to hear what you all think and are happy to answer any questions.

Piet, co-founder of Literal