u/fantasy_road_OG

Hey Guys,

Fairly sure that this doesn't fall a foul of the rules as it's specifically related to pokemon card value, but sincere apologies if it does, happy to take it down.

Essentially, I'm the most followed streamer on whatnot UK in the Comic book category, and we've reached the cap in a very small, niche, market, in terms of followers.

Because of this, I've decided to move into (not exclusively, maintaining our presence in the comic book side of things) into pokemon... The down side to this, is that I have absolutely zero knowledge of pokemon!

To get around this, I built myself a tool that scans live streams that I'm watching, and displays the card being sold's last sold value, via a secure chrome plugin in a window beside the live stream.

The first issue I found, was that pokemon streams are super busy (visually), so when the tool auto fired, it was picking up background noise/cards that was skewing the result. I then added a manual scan, where it takes a snapshot and you select the area for scanning - which works flawlessly. Getting the scan time down was the next challenge, as the cards are only on screen for 10-30 seconds, so a tool that takes over a minute to get results was no good. Sorted this, and the average response with an accurate scan is down to 5-15 secs.

Now, my question is that because I'm basically a noob when it comes to pokemon as a whole, what can I add to make this more helpful?

You can check the plug it out yourself for free here (limited scans)

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fantasy-road-trueprice-%E2%80%94/imdpickmagbjgbghlonhnmhkfljgcpdp

Made a video on how it works here - https://youtu.be/aHmuV\\\_iHNe8?si=tEboy9pJmZ9kunXq

For full disclosure, this does operate on a subscription model, though I had hoped to keep it free. The reason for this, is because of the cost of running the vision AI LLMs, which is what we use to identify the pokemon cards from the images.

As a side note, I've also created a whatnot breaktool/chase list generator, which is completely free to use, and will always stay that way. Any feedback on this tool would be great, too!

https://www.fantasyroad.co.uk/pokemon-whatnot-break-list

Another note - I am by trade a full stack developer, but in a world of ai it would be stupid not to utilise such a powerful tool. The back end code for true price (Web app) is all me, but I have simply vibe coded the front end design and layout as a temporary measure, solely for functionality. At the moment it's ugly, and I will overhaul it by hand when everything is locked in.

Thanks guys!

Hey Guys,

Fairly sure that this doesn't fall a foul of the rules as it's specifically related to pokemon card value, but sincere apologies if it does, happy to take it down.

Essentially, I'm the most followed streamer on whatnot UK in the Comic book category, and we've reached the cap in a very small, niche, market, in terms of followers.

Because of this, I've decided to move into (not exclusively, maintaining our presence in the comic book side of things) into pokemon... The down side to this, is that I have absolutely zero knowledge of pokemon!

To get around this, I built myself a tool that scans live streams that I'm watching, and displays the card being sold's last sold value, via a secure chrome plugin in a window beside the live stream.

The first issue I found, was that pokemon streams are super busy (visually), so when the tool auto fired, it was picking up background noise/cards that was skewing the result. I then added a manual scan, where it takes a snapshot and you select the area for scanning - which works flawlessly. Getting the scan time down was the next challenge, as the cards are only on screen for 10-30 seconds, so a tool that takes over a minute to get results was no good. Sorted this, and the average response with an accurate scan is down to 5-15 secs.

Now, my question is that because I'm basically a noob when it comes to pokemon as a whole, what can I add to make this more helpful?

You can check the plug it out yourself for free here (limited scans)

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fantasy-road-trueprice-%E2%80%94/imdpickmagbjgbghlonhnmhkfljgcpdp

Made a video on how it works here - https://youtu.be/aHmuV\_iHNe8?si=tEboy9pJmZ9kunXq

For full disclosure, this does operate on a subscription model, though I had hoped to keep it free. The reason for this, is because of the cost of running the vision AI LLMs, which is what we use to identify the pokemon cards from the images.

As a side note, I've also created a whatnot breaktool/chase list generator, which is completely free to use, and will always stay that way. Any feedback on this tool would be great, too!

https://www.fantasyroad.co.uk/pokemon-whatnot-break-list

Another note - I am by trade a full stack developer, but in a world of ai it would be stupid not to utilise such a powerful tool. The back end code for true price (Web app) is all me, but I have simply vibe coded the front end design and layout as a temporary measure, solely for functionality. At the moment it's ugly, and I will overhaul it by hand when everything is locked in.

Thanks guys!