A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books
Details
- External ID
- 49869904
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6220095693779905
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
i kept collecting rare internal company docs + out-of-print business books in random folders, so i put them all on one page.top shelf has docs like intel's 1968 investor memo, apple's original marketing philosophy, bill gates' internet tidal wave memo, yahoo's peanut butter manifesto, facebook's little red book, valve's handbook, and mrbeast's onboarding doc.bottom shelf has hard-to-find books from the founders/leaders of ibm, hp, gm, fastenal and others.everything links to a free legal source. original pdf/scan when i could find one, otherwise internet archive.if you know any rare docs or books that belong here, send them my way.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- digital bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a curated static web directory/viewer for PDFs and text documents of rare company memos and tech books. A solo builder can vibe-code this UI and file viewer in a single weekend.
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Competitors
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Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
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