Overview
PokeScan turns the slow, manual job of selling a Pokémon card collection into a few seconds of pointing your phone. Scan a card with the camera, get instant identification and a price, and list it on eBay — the goal is under ten seconds from camera to live listing.
How it works
It is a progressive web app so it runs from the phone camera without an app-store install. A photo of the card goes to a FastAPI backend that uses Claude's vision capability to identify exactly which card it is — set, number, variant. From there it looks up current pricing and can push a listing straight to eBay through their API. A Next.js frontend ties the camera, identification, pricing, and collection management together.
Why AI vision
Identifying a trading card reliably is genuinely hard — thousands of cards, many near-identical variants, reflective foils, and wear. Rather than build and train a bespoke image classifier, PokeScan leans on a general-purpose vision model to read the card the way a knowledgeable human would. That collapses what used to be a per-card research task into a single scan.
Status
PokeScan is in active development — building out the recognition-to-listing flow and collection management.