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I am working on a ebook reader which uses AI to make reading easier and has a built in book club to talk about the book as you read it and once you are done.

Basically I am building it for myself as some books are hard to read, and if I can substitute a paragraph or some sections with an ELI5 version that would get me through a lot more books and may it so much fun.

And I love chatting about books and that is half of the fun for me, so I am building it in the app itself.

Using Tauri and Rust for all of this because I don't like slow apps.

Will also build mobile apps next once I am done with the desktop versions as I like syncing where I read etc.


If you think Canada is the answer then let me stop you right there. Canada's problems are only increasing and while there are no school shootings there are stabbings and homeless problems are increasing everyday along with not a lot of competition so high prices for everything, rising house prices, rising grocery prices and lastly, healthcare is completely falling apart with no access to healthcare for months or years unless it is a complete emergency.


Yes, 100 agree:

- Cannot get a family Dr [1]

- Mini crime wave due to catch and release [2]

- 53%+ combined income tax [3]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/angus-reid-i...

[2] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/vancouver-toronto-stabb...

[3] https://www.legalline.ca/legal-answers/tax-rates-much-pay/


Same on east coast sadly.


I grew up in a town near Toronto and when I visit my parents I am shocked that I hear the N-word used in public...too many Americans think Canada is Berkeley but nation-sized

and as you mention...Americans seem to have no conception that Canada's healthcare system is presently a shambles and anyone with decent insurance in the US is much much better off


The delivery piece can be email for sure but the discovery / browsing piece is harder to do through email.


I use supabase as our backend for https://sudopad.com and recently crossed 1000 shared links. Has been pretty stable for me. The only thing I am waiting for is the ability to call a subabase function on db change.


I use RLS quite heavily for my app Sudopad (https://sudopad.com) and it has been working quite well so far.

One gotcha specific to Supabase (where I run the backend) is because there is no anonymous login in Supabase, turning on RLS and using database functions marked as security definers are the way to go. Otherwise there is no easy way of stopping a 'select * from x' since some rows might not have a user_id if they are anonymous and I still want people to access the row if they know a specific primary key uuid.


Yes adding it would be trivial. Right now I just add the new link with a note. Would it help your usecase?


I think it would. Having the ability to edit entries could prove useful under different situations. I see that it notifies you if you try to add a duplicate; That's pretty cool. I enjoy this project quite a bit, and it has sparked some interest in bookmark sharing in general. Thank you for this.


Thank you. I'll add the edit functionality shortly. I'm glad simple bookmark sharing is something that you like. After building it for just my friend, I see more and more use cases for it. Someone is already using it to share links with their classes.


You could. Maybe not slack but google doc you can. But it just feels not built for this purpose. Along with the extension I'm developing this would let you share with 1 click and get notified in realtime if you want etc. It's a more purpose built app I guess.


Pad url aliases would be nice to have. But I would have to gate it behind a login so that there are no clashes. Would you be ok signing up with a magic link for such a feature? Then you could name your pad with however short of a name you want. Without a login, even a short UUID would be random characters and hard to speak over the phone.


Well why not. I can definitely see it can be useful. I just added it. Should be live. It's text field. So you can also write long notes if you want. It's up to you.


Ya that's a nice side effect I didn't think of. Thanks. I also use browser bookmarks a lot so I just bookmark one board for a friend and another for family.


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