Mohammed Aryan’s Shelfie
The problem
Readers juggle a reading goal, several books on the go, and lines worth remembering, but that usually lives scattered across a notes app, dog-eared pages and memory, with reading progress and saved quotes never in the same place.
The solution
Shelfie tracks a yearly reading goal and page progress on whatever you're currently reading, and turns any standout line into a shareable quote card with the book, author and page number attached, so your progress and the lines that stuck with you live in one place.
Monetisation service
Free for one active reading goal and up to 15 saved quotes, with a small affiliate commission when a recommended book is bought through the app. A Reader Plan at £1.99/month unlocks unlimited books and quotes, custom quote-card designs, and a printable end-of-year book of every quote saved that year.
Minimum projected ARR
Mohammed Aryan’s story
From Dog-Eared Pages to a Real App
The Spark
Aryan kept finding lines in books worth remembering, but by the time he wanted to share one with a friend or use it in a school essay, he had usually forgotten which book it was even from, and had no easy view of his overall reading progress either.
Building It For Real
At PsyntaxLabs Academy, Aryan turned that idea into Shelfie: a yearly reading goal and page-progress tracker for whatever you are currently reading, plus a quote studio that turns a standout line into a shareable card with the book, author and page number already attached. He used AI tools to help build the screens once the fundamentals of how the app actually works were solid.
- Identify a real, everyday problem worth solving, instead of copying an app idea from somewhere else.
- Design a quote card that looks good enough that people actually want to share it.
- Use AI as a genuine building tool once the fundamentals were solid, not as a shortcut around them.
What's Next
Shelfie is still taking shape, but the direction is set: making it effortless for a young reader to track their reading and hold onto the lines that actually mattered to them.
What Mohammed Aryan’s parent thinks
“TBC”
— Abdul Miah