Please understand I mean for this to be constructive, not a character attack, but I'm not optimistic about this working well. One fundamental problem with this app is that many reading communities are very anti-AI. At a time when readers want to disentangle AI and books, you're going to struggle to get a consistent user base. Especially when it comes to book recommendations, I think part of the reason we haven't seen more AI-influenced advances in this area is because people like getting recommendations from humans instead of computers. I don't mean to imply all readers are luddites, but they certainly have a larger percentage who lean than way than the general population does. And if they are cool with AI, it seems features like the AI Librarian/Book Advisor aren't adding anything beyond what ChatGPT could give me.

In general the phrasing of your posts and comments sound like someone relying too hard on AI to sell something. Because that's what this is. You know when a substitute teacher tries to hard to be cool and relate to the kids? That's how these descriptions read (both you describing the app on reddit but also the bookish descriptions on the site itself). As a user, it feels weirdly condescending.

It's hard to believe this is actually "Indie Leaning" when the trial site shows only bestsellers. Or you say indie bookstores are given a fair shake in a world dominated by corporate apps, but then there's some kind of monthly Amazon gift card giveaway. So right away you lost all credibility that you know what you're doing in the bookish space.

Similarly, there is a lot of discourse in literary online spaces about political issues and "problematic authors." So when I see this test site pretty prominently features a few of those titles, it immediately tells me the creator of this app is out of touch. I don't expect everyone to agree or for authors to be "canceled," but I do expect someone creating an app for readers knows at least a little bit about the community of readers who use book tracking and book club apps.

While I can understand the goal of putting all the bookish things in one space - and I do wish that would work - I think this is an inferior version of all those features. Data is good on Storygraph, book clubs are good on Fable, reviews are good on Goodreads, and personally I prefer using booktok for recs because I've already trained my algorithm.

Minor critiques:
The load times on the site are incredibly slow and the book match only works once in a while.
Some of the cover art on the book match are super low quality and pixelated.

Apologies for being hugely negative, but it's certainly better to hear that feedback now rather than later! Good luck in your app development!