What's New

Latest features and improvements

June 2026 (Session 6 — Launch Prep)

Product Hunt Launch

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Readicate is live on Product Hunt! Special welcome banner and 30-day Pro trial for PH visitors.

UTM & Source Tracking

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Full attribution tracking — we now capture where every visitor and signup comes from for better growth insights.

Galaxy Hero Redesign

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New contemplative narrative: 'Which sentence has been shaping your life without you noticing?' Split across galaxy and page sections.

Library Galaxy Item

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Library now renders as a 180° open book with covers and translucent pages in the galaxy ring.

JSON-LD Structured Data

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Rich structured data for highlights, profiles, and pricing pages — better search engine understanding.

June 2026 (Session 5)

Dynamic OG Images

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Every page now generates branded 1200x630 social preview images. Share any page and it looks great on Twitter, LinkedIn, and more.

Shareable Highlights

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Every highlight now has a public URL (/h/id) with a beautiful themed card. Share individual passages on social media.

Public Profiles

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Your reading profile is now shareable at /u/username. Stats, themes, and recent highlights visible to anyone.

Explore Page

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Browse recent highlights, popular books, and active readers without signing up. Great for discovering the community.

Embed Widgets

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Embed your highlights and reading stats on your blog or README. Beautiful themed cards that link back to your profile.

Toast Notifications

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Sleek slide-in notifications for success, error, and info messages throughout the app.

Skeleton Loading States

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7 new pages now show content-aware skeleton loaders instead of spinners for a smoother loading experience.

June 2026 (Session 4)

Apple Books Import

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Import highlights from Apple Books. Supports iOS share format, structured exports, and automatic book detection.

Batch Photo OCR

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Scan up to 10 book pages at once with AI. Save as one combined highlight or separate per page. Pro feature.

Advanced Analytics Dashboard

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Deep insights: theme distribution, hourly/daily reading patterns, monthly growth, book completion rate, source breakdown.

Full SEO Coverage

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Every page now has proper meta titles, descriptions, and OG tags. Enhanced robots.txt and sitemap.

E2E Test Suite

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Playwright tests for landing pages, authentication, API routes, and public pages. Run with npm run test:e2e.

June 2026 (Session 3)

Photo OCR Import

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Take a photo of any book page and AI extracts the text. Save directly as a highlight with book attribution.

Goodreads Import

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Import your entire Goodreads library from CSV export. Shelf mapping, deduplication, and book metadata.

Readwise Sync

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One-click sync of all your Readwise highlights. Token-based auth, paginated fetch, automatic dedup.

Social Sharing

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Share highlights to X, Reddit, WhatsApp, and Instagram with beautiful formatted text and tracking.

Email System

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Welcome emails, weekly digest, and streak reminders via Resend. Keep your reading momentum going.

Referral System

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Invite readers with your personal code. Track referrals and earn rewards when friends join.

Pro Subscriptions

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Stripe-powered subscriptions with free trial. Pro unlocks AI Mirror, batch OCR, and advanced analytics.

Yearly Thought Report

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Spotify Wrapped for readers. AI-generated reader personality, monthly activity, top themes, and predictions.

AI Mirror Deep Analysis

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Pro feature: contradiction detector, blind spots analysis, and intellectual evolution tracking.

June 2026 (Earlier)

Keyboard Navigation

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Press G+F, G+L, G+D, G+M to navigate instantly. Plus ⌘K for command palette, ? for shortcuts page.

Streak Widget & Reading Progress

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7-day streak bars on your feed. Currently reading widget with progress bars. Auto-updates when you highlight.

AI Daily Intention

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A personalized 2-sentence reading focus generated each morning based on your themes and thinking style.

3D Flashcard Flip

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Real 3D flip animation with perspective & rotateY. Keyboard shortcuts: Space=flip, 1-4=rate.

Obsidian Export

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Export highlights as Obsidian-formatted Markdown with [[wikilinks]], callout blocks, and YAML frontmatter.

Community Picks & Realtime Feed

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Discover page shows community's most highlighted books. Feed shows new posts as they arrive in real-time.

Full Light Mode

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Complete light/dark theme across all 64 pages. 1000+ color tokens updated. Animated auth page backgrounds.

Direct Messages

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Send private messages to other readers. Real-time delivery via Supabase. Start from their profile page.

Keyboard Shortcuts Page

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Full reference page at /shortcuts. Press ? anywhere to open it. All navigation and reading shortcuts listed.

Performance Boost

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Prompt caching on all 8 AI routes (70-90% cost cut), next/Image everywhere, API response caching.

May 2026

Daily Review

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Focused review session with due flashcards, thought of the day, and random past highlights for re-discovery.

Reading Notes

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Write longer reflections about your books. Unlike quick highlights, notes let you develop ideas across chapters.

Year in Review

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Comprehensive annual reading summary with monthly charts, top themes, sentiment analysis, and books completed.

Enhanced Book Detail

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Rich book pages with stats, community highlights, reading status management, activity charts, and theme analysis.

Challenges Page

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Visual monthly challenges with progress tracking. See how close you are to completing each reading goal.

Achievements

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21 unlockable badges across reading, thinking, mastery, and social categories with progress tracking.

Focus Mode

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Pomodoro-style reading timer with circular progress ring. Track sessions and minutes read daily.

Reading Lists

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Create and share curated book collections. Public or private lists with book search.

Quotes Browser

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Beautiful carousel of your highlighted passages with gradient cards, shuffle, and copy.

For You

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AI-powered book recommendations and similar reader matching based on your intellectual profile.

Thought Sparks

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AI-generated reflection questions that connect themes across your reading in unexpected ways.

Trending

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See what the community is reading and reacting to; hot topics, popular books, and active readers.

Reading Insights

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AI-analyzed reading personality with curiosity, depth, and breadth scores plus pattern analysis.

Export Data

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Download your highlights, flashcards, or profile in JSON, CSV, or Markdown format.

Connections

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Manage your followers and following with one-tap follow toggles and theme overlap.

Concept Explorer

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Browse AI-extracted concepts across your reading. See frequency bars, co-occurring concepts, and related themes.

Weekly Digest

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Your reading week at a glance; momentum stats, highlight of the week, new themes, and sentiment analysis.

Quick Capture

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Floating action button to capture highlights from anywhere in the app. No need to navigate to a book first.

Command Palette

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Press Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K) to instantly navigate anywhere. Fuzzy search across all pages.

Following Feed

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Toggle between Discover and Following feeds. See highlights from people you follow in chronological order.

Collections

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Your bookmarked highlights automatically organized into themed collections. No manual sorting needed.

Reading History

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Timeline view of your reading activity; highlights, books started, and books completed, day by day.

Similar Readers

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Discover readers with overlapping intellectual interests based on shared themes in your thought graphs.

Library Filters

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Filter your library by reading status with counts. Progress bars on currently reading books.

Monthly Challenges

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Five auto-generated reading challenges each month: highlights, books, streaks, themes, and flashcard reviews.

Thought Sparks

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AI-generated reflection questions on the Mirror page based on your recent reading patterns.

Intellectual Fingerprint

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Canvas-based radar chart on your profile showing your unique thinking dimensions.

Data Export

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Export your highlights, flashcards, and profile in JSON, CSV, or Markdown format.

Share Stats Card

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Generate and share a beautiful OG image of your reading stats and top themes.

Earlier

Thought Graph

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Force-directed visualization of your intellectual connections; themes, concepts, and how they relate.

AI Mirror

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See your intellectual patterns, blind spots, and how your thinking evolves over time.

Thought Matching

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Find people matched by intellectual compatibility; shared themes and thinking patterns.

Spaced Repetition Flashcards

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SM-2 algorithm flashcards auto-generated from your highlights. Learn what you read.