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What I've Been Building: A SageChimp Update From the Founder

Since launch, I have been shipping fast. New features, new tools, and new ways to connect with the books and people you love. Here is everything that is live right now.

r-s-curtis · Mar 14, 2026

The Genre Problem Nobody Talks About

SageChimp now lets readers suggest genre corrections on any book page. Here is why clean genre data matters more than you think, and how the community keeps it that way.

r-s-curtis · Mar 18, 2026

Everyone Loved This Book... Can You Trust Modern Reviews

Last month I bought a novel with a 4.7-star average and eleven hundred reviews. The top review said they had stayed up u

r-s-curtis · Aug 15, 2026

My recommendation engine told Silence of the Lambs readers to try Matilda

I built SageChimp partially because I got tired of not being able to tell if enthusiasm about a book was real. Separating unpaid reviews from incentivized ones, saying "not enough data yet" instead of inventing a consensus, that is the entire premise of the site. So, there is a certain justice in getting caught doing the exact thing I built the place to expose, in a system I had not thought to check.

r-s-curtis · Sep 12, 2026