Father-son duo create app that tracks rise or fall of sports cards

A father and son have combined their love of collecting with keeping track of the prices by creating an app to track the rise or fall of prices for certain players and cards
Posted 4/7/2022, 5:26:04 PM Updated 4/7/2022, 5:28:05 PM

during the pandemic

I was looking for stuff to do because I was

pretty bored

That's when 10 year old charlie man of Haddonfield turned

to his father ted's childhood hobby collecting cards

I collect Pokemon cards and I also love to collect

Philly's bryce harper boom

It's been chaos at santiago sports too in Collins would

the training experts say participation in the past time is

at an all time high and so is the value

of the cards proof in a recent customers collection

I'm going through it and I find these 2000 and

nine top Steph curry rookies that are now like 700

I'd say they're about 750 bucks 500 bucks in that

range and the price tags on number $2

So Kobe Bryant here few Michael Jordan's too stuck at

home in the pandemic charlie and his dad had trouble

finding out the value of cards online

So charlie decided to create an app and brought the

idea to his dad

I've spent the last 10 years in technology specifically in

the field of computer vision and image recognition

They created the free app collects sports card scanner you

press add card and it's going to the cloud right

now and it's finding the most recent sale allowing collectors

to trade and sell with card sales in the industry

Skyrocketing will the prices and the hobby crash the eighties

and nineties there was mass production and that killed everything

I think we're hitting mass production now but we have

three fractures We have autographs we have game news relics

We have all these things that differentiate

There's another reason why this hobby may stand the test

of time

Big time investors are now involved

Big time cards are no longer for kids

It's it's sad to say that but they are the

future of our hobby so they have to stay involved

But like some of these prices of cards are just

tremendous and it's just an investment

Now

The average price is 1978

Right now for charlie man paying under 20 bucks for

the bryce harper chrome card

His rookie card is right up his alley

He has some parting wisdom for collectors watching the films

This friday

A good player that you're going to have to be

looking for

And a new set is BRyson stott because he's going

to be very sought after and he's going to be

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