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Backshelf is a video game wishlist and collection tracker. See prices, critic scores, and trailers for every game, and plan your wishlist by month or priority.
I'm Chad, and I built Backshelf to free myself from the complex spreadsheet I was using to track my wishlist and game collection. The spreadsheet itself was fine. The annoying part was everything around it. Adding one game meant opening a price guide to see what it goes for on the platform I actually wanted, a review site to check whether it's any good, and YouTube for a trailer. Then I'd type four things into a row by hand, and six months later the price was wrong anyway. I tried other apps, but none of them had all the pieces in one place.
So Backshelf puts all of that on one record. Add a game and it comes with the current price for that exact platform and edition, critic and user scores, roughly how long it takes to finish, cover art, screenshots and a trailer. But the most important thing as I built it was making it fun to use. I wanted a tool I enjoyed using. And I think I did it. I'm already spending hours just browsing, finding new games and watching trailers. I hope you find it fun too.
It's free with a 20-game wishlist, and there's a demo with no signup if you just want to test it out.
What I'd really like is to hear what's missing. I built this around how I collect, and I know that's one person's habits. If you track your collection in a way this doesn't handle, tell me and I'll work on it.
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About Backshelf on Product Hunt
“You're going to need another shelf”
Backshelf was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #157 on the daily leaderboard. Backshelf is a video game wishlist and collection tracker. See prices, critic scores, and trailers for every game, and plan your wishlist by month or priority.
Backshelf was featured in SaaS (44.9k followers) and Games (99k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 89.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Backshelf?
Backshelf was hunted by Chad Rempp. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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