The Challenge
We encounter amazing books everywhere: coffee shops, hotel lobbies, friends' homes. But we forget them by the time we get home.
Writing down titles by hand is tedious. And those massive personal libraries? Nobody has time to catalog hundreds of books manually.
The Approach
Your phone is always with you. A photo captures everything in seconds.
Instead of making you do the work of identifying and organizing, let intelligence handle the recognition while you simply point and shoot.
The Solution
A visual book scanner that reads your bookshelves for you. One photo captures dozens of books at once.
Each scan saves to your personal collection, creating a searchable history of every bookshelf you've ever photographed.
The Outcome
Book lovers now capture entire libraries in moments. That interesting shelf at a dinner party? Photographed and cataloged before dessert.
Personal collection of 500 books? Documented in an afternoon instead of a weekend.
What I Learned
Friction kills adoption. The faster someone can go from "I want to remember this book" to "done," the more they'll actually use it. Every extra step loses users.
Context matters more than features. People don't want a book database. They want to remember discoveries. Building around that moment of curiosity, not around data management, changes everything.
Security is invisible when done right. Users shouldn't have to think about password safety. Building proper token-based authentication means they can focus on books, not worry about accounts.