Next Read

Inspiration

During Product Manager interviews, a favorite question is “What is a favorite product?” followed by “How would you improve it?”. I decided to dig into a facsimile of my favorite product and work through building an improvement.

What it does

It automagically serves personalized, available book options when a reader returns a book – increasing reader engagement and optimizing inventory to checkout flow.

How we built it

I started by working through a custom GPT to create a PRD. Then, added my PRD to Bolt, where I generated a prototype and refined.

Challenges we ran into

The first version created the entire library app rather than limiting to the improvement, and it included too many options. I also learned it is probably better to tell Bolt I want to build a mobile product at the start, so it builds in React.
Obtaining access to the library and publishing data.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I’m proud of taking a stab at this, working through the process, and publishing a prototype.

What we learned

There are too many tools out there, and it makes it confusing to get started. It is good to have a community with whom to share notes and make choices to move forward.

What's next for Next Read

Time to do more vibe coding and take a look at the collaborative filtering on Audible to see how we might improve Next Read.

Built With

• react