MyLibrarian has a new book discovery tool v4 built in React, which we’re testing with users and customers, highlighting books librarians love, that readers will want to buy. Our community is integrated with Nostr, and we like to say we’re building the new Goodreads, Zap-enabled.

It’s an exciting time as we launch the app with 3 thousand beta users, and when we share with the wider public, we’ll have a reach of 5M through partner communities. MyLibrarian creators benefit through a micropayment model, where we get zapped for various book content, recommendations, subscriptions and profit sharing payments for work.

We're committed to building an open source Creator Community In the Stacks as we launch now alongside our MyLibrarian book recommendation app, with some unique infrastructure built in that will benefit other communities.

Libraries are OG open source and scaling Nostr and the Lightning Network through us would be transformative for all. There are 1M Librarians in the English-speaking world. Imagine if when each of them suggested our MyLibrarian book discovery app to their library users, they also heard about Nostr and Lightning?! The marketing impact is seismic.

Our open source project Creator Communities In the Stacks is launching now alongside our MyLibrarian book recommendation app. More here: https://www.michellezaffino.com/building-mylibrarian-in-public-summer-2024-mylibrarian-build-in-public-blog/. We’re building a custom solution but also have a community for MyLibrarian through Ditto at the moment.

Our MyLibrarian community will expand the product from the website to the app, in one all-encompassing community. This makes MyLibrarian into the new Goodreads. I’ll break it down for you.

—It's a social thread where booklovers can talk about books

—A community where librarian book reviewers can post content and

—Where anyone can be sent micropayments for content creation, curation, interacting and amplifying content and the MyLibrarian app, of course

MyLibrarian has built a web app, Android and now our iOS app is going on TestFlight. We’re improving all the betas and API to share with our B2C users and B2B customers in our community.

Our founder Michelle has 15+ years experience in the publishing field, as an author and editor in NY, and now in SF with a M.S. in UX Architecture, learned to code to build an early version of the product, and heads our tech team, including a lead from MIT who designed the iOS, and another Xoogler coding backend. There are 1M librarians in our community who are sure to refer our app to readers in their communities, since everyone knows librarians are the biggest book brains and love our recommendations and micropayment model.

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