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Sports Card Marketplace

A sports-card marketplace MVP for collectors and breakers — built to answer the question collectors can never settle: who actually owns which card.

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Sports Card Marketplace
2026 Sports Card Marketplace
Client ClueTracker
Project type Marketplace
Year shipped 2026
Stack Two-sided marketplace · Offers & escrow · Points & leaderboards
Status Live
  1. I Brief

    What stood in the way

    Collectors struggle to find out whether a specific card is available, who owns it, or where it was last seen. Ownership data is fragmented, there’s no direct way to make an offer, observations are scattered, and there’s little trust or moderation.

  2. II Build

    How we built it

    We built a searchable card catalog with variant support and two ways to contribute — ownership and sighting submissions — backed by admin moderation. On top of that: an offer-based buying flow with escrow-style protection, dispute tools, and a points-and-leaderboard system to keep collectors active.

  3. III Outcome

    The impact

    The MVP gave the client a working product to test ClueTracker with real collectors and breakers — and a clean base ready to grow into mobile and richer features.

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Stack
Two-sided marketplace · Offers & escrow · Points & leaderboards
Year shipped
2026
Filed by
Dev Paragon · 2026
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