Shelf Republic: Your comics. Your folders. A library worthy of them.

Hello Product Hunt. I'm Sei Dake, the maker. I have a few thousand comics on disk: Marvel runs, European bande dessinée, some manga, all in a folder tree I spent years getting right. Every app I tried wanted me to throw that away and re-catalog everything into their cloud. I didn't want a second copy of my collection. I wanted to actually see the one I already had. So Shelf Republic does the opposite: your file system is the source of truth. Point it at a folder and you get a cover-first shelf in seconds. No import, no account, nothing ever leaves your Mac. Move a folder in Finder and the shelf updates. Isolated vaults keep your different collections in separate worlds. And it's deliberately not a reader: two clicks open whatever reader you already use. It's a one-time $49, currently $39 for launch. For Product Hunt this week it's $29.99 for the first 50 of you, code ShelfHunt shelfrepublic.com/en#pricing. There's no free trial, but a 14-day no-questions money-back guarantee, so you can try it on your own library risk-free. I'd love your honest feedback, especially if you collect comics. Happy to get into the architecture (Tauri + Rust, local-first) or why I chose not to build my own reader. Ask me anything 🙏