TBRly - Tackle your to-be-read Pile
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Gamify and automate your monthly TBR lists with AI. TBRly is a cozy, aesthetic oracle built to cure reading paralysis. Powered by Gemini Pro, it turns choice chaos into intentional action. Put your books into the Deathmatch Arena, spin the Roulette wheel for a definitive pick, and instantly generate ephemeral, 7-day self-destructing links to invite friends to a shared Buddy Read. Stop doomscrolling your bookshelf—bring game mechanics, beautiful curation, and focus back to your reading.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I’m Sukriti, a Solution Architect, developer, and avid book collector. I’m incredibly excited to introduce you all to TBRly!
Like many book lovers, I have over 100 books sitting on my shelves. Yet every weekend, I’d find myself staring blankly at them for 20 minutes, completely paralyzed by choice. As a developer, when you face an annoying, repetitive real-world optimization problem, you don't live with it—you build a system to fix it. 🛠️
That’s why I built TBRly. It’s an AI-powered curation engine designed to completely eliminate book decision paralysis and data-entry dread.
What makes TBRly different from a raw text prompt or spreadsheet tracking?
The Spatial Moat (Bookshelf Scanner): No manual typing. Snap a single photo of your physical shelf—our backend parses the book spines using Gemini 2.5 Pro vision models and asynchronously hydrates rich covers and metadata.
Multilingual Vibe Prompts: Human emotion doesn't always live in rigid English keywords. You can type abstract moods in regional languages (like Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, etc.), and the engine accurately catches the semantic intent.
Gamified Decoupled State: We built an interactive Arena Tournament Bracket to let your books go head-to-head, backed by strict Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to keep your library state persistent and secure.
🎁 PRODUCT HUNT EXCLUSIVE OFFER! 🎁 To celebrate launching today, I want to supercharge your experience.
The standard free tier gives you 3 AI Oracle spins per month. Drop your registered TBRly username right here in the comments below, and I will manually upgrade your account to 10 Premium AI Oracle Spins! 🎡🔥
I’ll be hanging out here in the logs all day to answer your technical architecture questions, hear your feedback, and upgrade your accounts.
Let me know what you think, and happy reading! 🚀📚
The Deathmatch Arena is such a fun way to finally pick between three books I keep flip-flopping on, and the roulette spin feels like a little treat every time.
@nebahatkormazer Thank you so much! It’s awesome to hear that the Deathmatch Arena is helping you break through that book-choice paralysis and that you're enjoying the roulette spin.
I'd love to give you a little extra treat to find your next perfect read. Send me a quick DM with the email address you use, and I’ll send 10 free, exclusive vibe prompts straight to your inbox!
the roulette wheel idea is genuinely fun, picked up a book i forgot i owned. love that the buddy read link expires after a week, keeps things from dragging on.
@melisi0ey That is exactly why I built that expiration feature—nothing kills the momentum of a good buddy read like letting it drag on forever! I'm so glad the roulette wheel helped you rediscover a hidden gem on your shelf.
To help you and your reading partner find your next great pick even faster, I’d love to hook you up. Send me a quick DM with the email address you use, and I’ll send 10 free, exclusive vibe prompts straight to your inbox!