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Web and Android / Commerce
Design + full-stack engineering
In one line
Manga, found.
One place to discover manga, compare bookstore prices and find out what’s actually in stock.
Year
2025
Platform
Web and Android
Stack
All technologiesAlso: Tailwind CSS · Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · MongoDB · Firebase · Google Cloud
01 / The problem
01 / The problem
A whole world of manga. No single place to find it.
Manga fans had to search bookstore after bookstore to see what was available locally. Titles were scattered across retailers, often listed under inconsistent or incomplete names.
There were no genre filters, no way to compare prices and no reliable stock tracking. Finding one book meant doing the research all over again.
02 / The solution
02 / The solution
A full-stack catalog and price tracker that does the searching for you.
Hiki aggregates several bookstores into a single catalog. Scrapers run every day, collect what each store has on its shelves and notice when something changes: a new arrival, a price drop, a title back in stock.
Every title is then enriched from anime databases, so a listing with a mangled name still becomes a proper entry with a cover, genres, tags and a score. Readers get all of it in a fast, filterable interface, in their own language.
How it flows
Runs daily on Cloud Scheduler
Daily
01 / Collect
aiohttp scrapers with rate limiting and exponential backoff
02 / Enrich
AniList and Shikimori, with Jikan and Kitsu as fallbacks
03 / Store
FastAPI with async MongoDB via Motor
04 / Serve
Next.js on Cloud Run, live at hiki.world
03 / Key features
03 / Key features
Each feature answers a problem readers had, from finding a title to finding where to buy it, in a shop or second-hand. Together they turn a search across several stores into one.
F.01
Daily
Daily scrapers collect names, prices, discounts, stock and images from every store. Change detection flags new arrivals, price drops and stock changes.
F.02
4 sources
AniList supplies scores, genres, tags and covers. Shikimori translates Cyrillic titles, with Jikan and Kitsu as fallbacks. Even mangled product names resolve.
F.03
Full-text search
Filter by genre, tag, price range, discount, stock and source store. Full-text search works in every language.
F.04
Built with next-intl and locale-aware routing, so every reader browses the catalog in their own language, titles included.
F.05
Moderated
People sell second-hand manga, anime figures, clothing and vinyl, with a price in lei, the condition and up to five photos. An admin reviews every listing before it goes live; buyers reach sellers on Telegram.
F.06
Synced nightly
Search an exact edition by title, volume or ISBN and pick a city: the map shows the Librarius and Cărturești shops in Moldova that stock it, with price, stock, address, phone and opening hours.
04 / Built with
04 / Built with
Next.js
React
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
shadcn/ui
Kotlin
Jetpack Compose
Firebase
Google Cloud05 / Results
05 / Results
Manga fans finally have a single place to discover, compare and track every title available locally.
The platform handles hundreds of products and tracks their prices and stock every day.
Live
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Python
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