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Shelf Republic
Your comics. Your folders. A library worthy of them.
Point Shelf Republic at the folders you've spent years organizing and get a visual library in seconds. Isolated vaults keep your Marvel, bande dessinée and manga apart. Big covers with front-to-back flip. It's not a reader: two clicks open the one you already use. One-time, local-first, no account. macOS, Windows coming soon.
Hello Product Hunt. I'm Sei Dake, the maker.
I have a few thousand comics on disk: Marvel runs, European bande dessinée, some manga, all in a folder tree I spent years getting right. Every app I tried wanted me to throw that away and re-catalog everything into their cloud. I didn't want a second copy of my collection. I wanted to actually see the one I already had.
So Shelf Republic does the opposite: your file system is the source of truth. Point it at a folder and you get a cover-first shelf in seconds. No import, no account, nothing ever leaves your Mac. Move a folder in Finder and the shelf updates. Isolated vaults keep your different collections in separate worlds. And it's deliberately not a reader: two clicks open whatever reader you already use.
It's a one-time $49, currently $39 for launch. For Product Hunt this week it's $29.99 for the first 50 of you, code ShelfHunt shelfrepublic.com/en#pricing. There's no free trial, but a 14-day no-questions money-back guarantee, so you can try it on your own library risk-free.
I'd love your honest feedback, especially if you collect comics. Happy to get into the architecture (Tauri + Rust, local-first) or why I chose not to build my own reader. Ask me anything 🙏
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About Shelf Republic on Product Hunt
“Your comics. Your folders. A library worthy of them.”
Shelf Republic was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. Point Shelf Republic at the folders you've spent years organizing and get a visual library in seconds. Isolated vaults keep your Marvel, bande dessinée and manga apart. Big covers with front-to-back flip. It's not a reader: two clicks open the one you already use. One-time, local-first, no account. macOS, Windows coming soon.
Shelf Republic was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Comics & Graphic Novels (4.1k followers) and Books (122.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 21.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Shelf Republic?
Shelf Republic was hunted by Sei Dake. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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