DocShelf – Rare Company Doc Curator
A curated home for rare internal company docs and out-of-print business books
- Problem
- Someone collected rare internal company memos and out-of-print business books scattered across random folders and put them on one page, showing there is a real audience for these artifacts but no dedicated way to preserve, curate, and cite them.
- Solution
- A lightweight curation platform where users upload, annotate, and organize rare PDFs, scans, and out-of-print books by company, era, and theme; it generates shareable shelf pages with excerpt citations and source links, plus basic OCR and full-text search.
- Users
- Business historians, tech culture enthusiasts, independent creators, and product/design teams needing primary-source material.
- MVP
- Upload or link PDFs and scans with auto thumbnails; curate into shareable shelves by company, year, and tag; per-document excerpts and source citations; full-text search and citation export; public shelf pages with RSS.
- Revenue
- Free public shelves plus a pro curator subscription (custom domain, more storage, export, collaboration); affiliate links for out-of-print books.
- Why now
- Internal docs keep vanishing through reorganizations and site shutdowns, community interest in primary sources is rising, and generic tools like Drive or Notion are poorly suited for curation—while one developer can now build on modern file storage and search APIs.