inspiration.md

Inspiration and Ideas

Project-Related Inspiration

Related to books.

Online Libraries

To find more libraries: Wikipedia Book Search / Sources (see below for more notes on this)

• OpenLibrary

  Really fantastic. Is on GitHub with an AGPL license and in general with lots of books that can be fetched using its API. Furthermore, its GitHub wiki and its "About" pages have some good information:

  • Infogami, its own developed database
  • Librarianship (a lot on their data model)
  • Their Data Sources
  • Some general stuff for librarians, that is definitely also useful to me
  • Their Book Metadata Schemas and Thoughts

Book Search

• Wikipedia Book Search / Sources

  This is actually a great resource to find many available sources! See this search for how many results this actually delivers!

Full Book Download

• BookCut: loads book in the CLI from libgen and/or OpenLibrary

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General Inspiration

Not directly related to anything with books.

Free and Open Projects in General

Free and open projects in general, that are nicely done.

• lichess: Play chess online. It's a really nice website used by many people all over the world. The author relies fully on donations. Here is a nice list of how many donations the author gets and how it is spent. Here is a blog article by the author of the software, on why Lichess will always be free and here is the HN discussion on that.

Projects Where People Work Mostly Alone on Them

And make money.

• Lichess (see above)

• pinboard.in

  The creator has a blog also: www.idlewords.com. However, I think the topics on there are mostly just political. Somewhere (On another blog though: https://blog.pinboard.in) he also writes about Pinboard, amount of users etc.

• Cursive IDE

UI

• Search Bar

  My initial inspiration came from this mockup.

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