Daan Smid

Building a book lending tracker app

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Solo developer from Rotterdam. Building Folio, a book tracker that helps you remember who has your books. I handle the technical side, still figuring out the rest. Looking for feedback, conversations, and people who’ve been through this before.

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18h ago

Am I building something nobody wants, or am I just looking in the wrong places?

A few months ago I had an idea, validated it with a few people, and built it. Kept it simple on purpose. No feature creep, just the core problem.

Friends tested it, found some small bugs, fixed them. The app works.

Then I tried to find real users. Talked to people I thought were my audience but the conversations didn't go anywhere useful. Ran a small paid ad. Got almost nothing back.

Now I'm stuck. Not because the product is broken, but because I don't know where my people are. And without real users I have no feedback, and without feedback I don't know what to improve.

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8d ago

I kept lending out books and forgetting who had them. So I built something

Hey Product Hunt. I'm Daan, a developer from Rotterdam.

I kept lending out books and forgetting who had them. Asking felt awkward. So I built something.

Folio is a book tracker with a lending log. You can see what you're reading, track your progress, and always know which friend still has your copy with a WhatsApp nudge when you want it back.