Identification before valuation
A scan, search or set browser resolves to a specific collector number and artwork before CardScope requests market evidence.
Project / 02Live / Australia
Mobile product / Collectibles intelligence
CardScope
Know the card. See the evidence. Trade with context.
CardScope AU is a free mobile-first scanner for Pokémon and One Piece cards. It identifies the exact printing, then presents Australian asking prices and confirmed sold evidence without treating them as the same thing.
- Supported trading card games
- 02
- Market-first pricing context
- AUD
- Evidence types kept separate
- 02
- Independent live checks
- 2 min
Repository verified / 24 August 2026
Current proof
03 outcomes / repository verified
Evidence with boundaries
Current asking prices and confirmed sales remain separate, with source, freshness, sample size and confidence visible where data is returned.
Resilience beyond launch
Privacy-safe checks run every two minutes, encrypted backups run daily and restores are exercised against a disposable database each quarter.
The problem
Start with what makes the decision difficult.
Checking a card during a trade often means searching broad names, comparing different printings and translating overseas price guides while the decision is already happening.
The harder problem is trust. An active listing is an asking price, not proof of a sale. Raw cards and graded slabs are different markets. Two cards with the same character can have completely different values.
The response
Turn uncertainty into a guided path.
CardScope makes exact identification the gate before pricing. A camera scan, manual search or set browser leads to a specific collector number and artwork before market data is requested.
The result then separates current fixed-price listings from confirmed sold comparisons, labels the evidence clearly and keeps the experience focused on Australian collectors using AUD.
Product decisions
03 principles / visible in the product
Exact match first
Broad names resolve into a printing or artwork choice before any paid market lookup. Correct card first; price data second.
Evidence stays honest
Asking averages, medians and ranges live apart from confirmed sold data so one cannot be mistaken for the other.
Built for the trade
The scanner runs in a mobile browser, uses Australian market context and avoids forcing an app install at the moment of use.
What shipped
A working product, not a concept frame.
- 01Camera capture, compression and manual-search fallback
- 02Pokémon and One Piece catalogues with browse-by-set flows
- 03Exact collector-number and artwork confirmation
- 04Separate raw-card and graded-slab comparisons
- 05Representative active listings with outlier filtering
- 06Private collections, sale-comp lists and opt-in collector profiles
System view
A static mobile web client talks to bounded Netlify Functions, while Neon stores app-owned account and collection data. Market providers and credentials remain server-side; privacy-limited monitoring and independently encrypted recovery protect the live service.
Static mobile web appNetlify FunctionsNeon PostgresDrizzle ORMServer-side market providersNetlify IdentityCheckly monitoringEncrypted Cloudflare R2 recovery
A valuation tool should explain its evidence before it asks anyone to trust the number.Open CardScope
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