š CrowdBooks is LIVE ā and it's getting better every day!
A few days ago I shared how I built a collaborative book platform with no admins and no gatekeepers. Today I'm happy to report: we're live, and the latest update just dropped some features I'm genu...

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A few days ago I shared how I built a collaborative book platform with no admins and no gatekeepers. Today I'm happy to report: we're live, and the latest update just dropped some features I'm genuinely excited about. What's new š Drag & Drop Book Covers ā Authors can now upload cover images directly via DnD. No friction, no uploads page, just drop it in. š¼ļø Chapter Images ā Same for chapters. Visual storytelling is now a first-class citizen on CrowdBooks. š Share Buttons with OG support ā Every book now has native share buttons for Telegram, X, Facebook, and dev.to ā plus a copy-link button. All with proper Open Graph metadata, so links actually look good when shared. The UI still needs some CSS love (it's a living project, after all), but the core is solid and working. Oh, and did I mention? It runs on a ā¬1/month VPS. Yes, really. Proof that you don't need AWS budgets to ship something meaningful. The admin side of CrowdBooks is also becoming a blueprint ā we're taking the les