Bookshelves are based around topics and help readers explore books in fun ways. We use machine learning and NLP to do this at scale (plus some LOC data). We launched with 1,000+ bookshelves on everything from World War 2 to dinosaurs.
Timeline
A timeline of major features and events since our birth on April 19th, 2021.
We added related book lists to the bottom of our book recommendation pages so readers can keep following their curiosity. This is a very simple version while we work to build a more accurate recommendation engine.
Shepherd.com (now BookDNA.com) launched publicly on April 19th. We launch with 400 book recommendation lists from authors and 2,000 recommended books. I am so excited to see this live!
After receiving a fantastic response to the concept, I started working on the project full-time in December 2020.