Lirix
Your social reading tracker — no infinite feed, no ads, no tracking.
Personal library, multi-catalogue search, streaks, friends feed, reading quests and duels. Designed, built, secured and deployed solo by MAG&Cie — end-to-end demonstration of what a fractional CTO delivers without a team.
What Lirix brings
A respectful app built for readers — not algorithms.
Smart library
Themed shelves, mood board, roulette, status and rating filters. Find any book in one gesture.
Multi-catalogue search
OpenLibrary + Google Books + BnF SRU + ISBN scan + Goodreads import in 30 seconds. No book left behind.
Structured reviews
Rating out of 10, long or short review, quotes, tags. Your own book log — not a public review judged by strangers.
Streaks and yearly goals
Cumulative pages, current streaks, monthly consistency — motivating, never punitive. Skip a day? No stress.
Friends feed, no strangers
Follow only your friends, see what they're reading, cheer them on. Zero disguised ads, zero pushed influencers.
Quests & reading duels
Monthly challenges, themed quests, page-count duels with a friend. Healthy gamification, no loot boxes.
Lirix in pictures
Four key screens — library, search, book detail, stats.
What Lirix does not do
No infinite feed
You control what you see. No endless scroll designed to keep you hooked.
No ads, no sponsorships
Zero banners, zero "sponsored book", zero paid placements in your recommendations.
No cross-app tracking
No marketing SDK, no fingerprinting, no reselling reading data to brokers.
Your data stays yours
Full export on demand (GDPR by design). One-click account deletion inside the app.
Tech stack — shipped solo
TypeScript monorepo, one codebase for iOS, Android and Web. Full CI/CD with automated store publishing.
| Mobile + web frontend | Expo (React Native) + React Native Web |
|---|---|
| Backend API | Fastify + Prisma + PostgreSQL |
| Cron workers | BullMQ + Redis |
| Hosting | Fly.io (API + workers) + Vercel (web) + Supabase (auth + DB) |
| CI/CD | GitHub Actions + EAS Build + EAS Update (OTA) |
| Observability | Sentry + structured logs + Fly monitoring |
Want to dive into the making-of?
The Lirix case study details every architecture decision, product trade-off and CI/CD building block. It's the end-to-end demonstration of what a fractional CTO can deliver in 8 weeks solo.
Read the Lirix case studyInstall Lirix today
Available now on Google Play (Android) and the Web. iOS version coming to the App Store soon.