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Shelf Help · Photograph your shelves to catalog your books | BuildHop

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Shelf Help

Catalog, find and lend the books you own

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shelfhelp.co

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94.7s

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62%

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About Shelf Help

Shelf Help · Photograph your shelves to catalog your books

Photograph your shelves to catalog your books, then find any one in seconds and lend them with reminders. For families, churches and groups. Free for 200 books.

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Approved Oct 28, 2026, 1:01 PM

Is there an api with this? Can someone send a photo of several books and the api will return the details?

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Thanks for the up-vote! No public API yet, but what you describe is built into the app. Snap a photo of a shelf or a stack, spines out, and Shelf Help reads each spine with Gemini vision, checks every title against Open Library and Google Books, and gives back title, author and cover for you to confirm. It never adds a guess.

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Approved Oct 26, 2026, 9:12 AM

I like the demonstration of the app so clear value prop, good luck

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Approved Oct 25, 2026, 10:57 AM

I think this is very useful, and looks easy to use.

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Approved Oct 23, 2026, 1:42 AM

Photographing a whole shelf instead of typing ISBNs removes the data-entry wall that kills most book-catalog apps, and automated due-date emails solve the awkward can-I-have-my-book-back moment. One note: the founding member counter showing 500 of 500 places left reads as nobody has bought yet, which works against the urgency it aims for.

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Great feedback, thank you!

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Approved Oct 21, 2026, 10:36 PM

This is an awesome product! I am a huge fan of the simplicity and direct use case.

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