Shelfie
Why This is an Opportunity
BookTok and bookstagram are massive communities with zero good tools for showing off collections in a way that's visual and social. The build is a fun frontend challenge (drag-and-drop shelf UI, cover art API) with a simple database underneath.
Key Pain Points
- •Goodreads looks like it was designed in 2006 and feels like homework to maintain
- •There's no cool way to share your book collection that isn't a literal photo of your shelf
- •Book recommendation algorithms are terrible — people trust taste-matching from real humans
- •Notion book trackers are functional but ugly and not shareable in a fun way
Original Discovery
You know that thing where someone posts their bookshelf on Twitter and everyone zooms in to judge their taste? Shelfie lets you build a gorgeous, shareable digital bookshelf — snap a photo or search titles, arrange them however you want, and publish a public page. Think Linktree but for your reading life. People can browse, react, and discover books through taste rather than algorithms.
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