Introducing Minnesota Cardboard
Minnesota Cardboard is an app for anyone with a big collection of playing cards: collectors, players and sellers who sort, sell, find the best deals, share and keep track of their cards. It’s in development for Windows, macOS and Linux.
What it will do
- Add cards three ways: a document scanner, a photo, or typing the card in.
- Digitally sort for you: every card you add is sorted the way you set it up, with optional SKUs for sellers.
- Know your inventory: what you have, and what has already sold.
- See prices from several markets, for one card, a deck or your whole collection.
- Search everything: find cards by anything about them.
- Build and share decks from your collection, and share decks or whole collections with a link.
- Sell anywhere: list cards on Minnesota Cardboard, eBay, TCGplayer, Facebook Marketplace and more. The app finds where each card gets the best deal for you and your buyers, lists it there, and shows detailed analytics about your sales: what sold, where, for how much, how fast, how much buyers had to pay on fees versus the listed card price (pre-tax), and more.
Card games
Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, One Piece Card Game and Yu-Gi-Oh! are planned.
The app and the website
This site will do most of what the app does, right in your browser, so most people won’t need to install anything. The desktop app is for power users who want everything Minnesota Cardboard can do.
Where it stands
It’s early. Currently, the app opens a slightly styled window with a navbar and the core of the internal API is mostly complete. The database has just started to be modeled and constructed. And the website is awaiting custom functionality the application/libraries are supposed to provide, so the next step is to complete the internal API, start really working on the database and public API/libraries, and creating a nice looking GUI.
App updates are posted under the App tab on the news page, and in the app feed at mncardboard.com/feed/app.xml.