Introducing ShelfProud

ShelfProud is a small desktop app for book collectors: save the searches you run by hand and it tells you only about new listings, across marketplaces and auction houses.

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Every collector has a routine: the same searches, on the same sites, every day. eBay, AbeBooks, a couple of auction platforms, maybe Etsy or Vinted. Most days there’s nothing new. The day there is, you need to see it before anyone else does.

ShelfProud turns that routine into something that runs by itself.

How it works

  1. Save what you hunt for, such as tolkien hobbit first edition or bob dylan tarantula, as many searches as you like.
  2. ShelfProud checks on a schedule, every 10 to 60 minutes, from your menu bar, across eBay (US, UK and Germany), Etsy, AbeBooks, Vinted, PangoBooks, Catawiki, Heritage Auctions, Invaluable and the-saleroom.
  3. You hear about new listings only. The first check remembers everything already listed; after that, you get one notification per search with what has just appeared.

Why a desktop app

ShelfProud runs on your own computer, quietly, and opens the original listing when you click it. Buying happens on the marketplace, as usual.

Invite-only, for now

ShelfProud is free for Mac and Windows during the beta, and invite-only for now: the app asks for an access key the first time you open it. To get one, email [email protected] (see how to join the beta). Already have a key? Download ShelfProud and start hunting.