I made a book, Simple Machines Made Simple, and I got about 11k copies shipped to my house about two weeks ago. I'm now trying to fix all the books and get them shipped out. They are books with little mini demos in them, and about 80% of the books need some type of rework. So it's going to be a long few months.
I also made Computer Engineering for Babies which I've posted about on here a couple times before.
Yeah, this would be safer, but is anyone going to find the product if it's listed as "MyBrand attachment sleeve for location sensor and TV remote control." instead of "Attachment sleeve for Airtag and Samsung Frame Remote Control?" I kind of doubt it..
Hey, this is my book! Thanks for sharing! I just posted an update today to all the backers about the the sequel for Big Babies book. I'm hoping to start shipping in the next couple weeks.
Also, the signup flow is pretty painful. I have to upload a document, then pay, then go to my email and click on a link, that sends me another link to my email to sign in, then I complete the sign in, and it shows me the order information. And then no where does it let me chat with the robot about my doc...
I think it's supposed to use the microphone to record your answers possibly? But it's not doing that for me either. I just get 15 seconds, and then "you failed."
It forced me to login, and I hate logging into stuff, so I didn't try it. But I like the idea. Another wrapper for GPT? Did you do any tweaking to the model? I think I've seen that developers can add training data to the model to give it more context or something"? Did you do any of that?
Some feedback:
Firstly, this is loading full res photos on the homepage, which making the site extremely slow to load. You should generate some small thumbnails so that loading times aren't so terrible when looking at these gallery pages.
I would love more of a satirical approach. I would design it to be a very professional looking website, maybe knock off christie's or the louvre's design or something. Maybe have bio's about the authors (obviously keep it safe, because they're kids). And jack up the prices to be 100x what they currently are. Do really professional sounding descriptions for each piece (maybe you can use chatgpt to do this). "Art STUFF, is a still life Simeon. It's use of bright color pastel contradicts the subject matter of the piece and causes the viewer to consider the actual tools of the artist versus what the stereotypical tools that Simeon finds being pushed onto him." Or whatever...
Maybe professionally frame the pieces (or photoshop them to look professionally framed).
This seems like a fun side project. I'm also in the kid's market. I'd might be interested in partnering in some way if you're open to it.
I also made Computer Engineering for Babies which I've posted about on here a couple times before.
https://hackylabs.com