Fic Scout
Goodreads, but see books rated by characters, plot, pace etc
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A star average doesn’t tell you if you’ll like a book. Fic Scout lets you rate books on characters, plot, writing, setting, pace, romance, twists, and more. Then you can find your next read based on your taste, and see what a book is actually like before you start it.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
- Media & entertainment
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Books
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Yes A Goodreads-style app with multi-axis ratings is CRUD plus recommendation logic, and book metadata can come from open APIs such as Open Library or Google Books.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #17 of 91 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
- Finding Fiction · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Prose & Thorns · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- My Book Journal · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model · hn · 2025-11-05 · 606 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Sort By Cravings · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read · hn · 2025-12-29 · 134 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- leafle · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Bookrank · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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