andrewljohnson

Come to Discord for various reasons if Mana Pool interests you... but I'm also happy to help you value or sell your cards or whatever if you DM me, no charge at all.

We know all about old card markets, and we are also planning features to really sell high-end cards the best of all the sites.

I would like to know your deck lists from then.

I didn't make a business of MTG until the end of high school and first part of college, ~1999.

eBay was new then, and an older friend showed me the prices on eBay and told me how to make money buying/selling. Since I was traveling to go to the Pro Tour/etc, I had a lot of opportunity to buy cards to sell... mostly bad cards from good players that sold well to casual players (think big dragons).

We do want to add a lot of transparent price history, but we need to get the market rolling to have that sort of data I think.

I appreciate the encouragement and the "\n" comment, we will fix that too.

Good point, filing an issue to make that clear.

We do want to be international, but we did everything we could to narrow the initial idea. We see significant opportunities to facilitate Europe/Japan/US/other trade.

Part of my interest in this project came because i was writing software to arbitrage TCGplayer and eBay around last Christmas, because I was wasting time doing it manually and wanted to see if I could automate.

Many ideas around trading and we are kind of at a cambrian explosion of ideas honestly!

Check out /deck/add for the half built mass buyer that we’ll finish after MagicCon.

If you have a bunch of good condition beta dual lands, that’s insane :)

If you want to sell them, the right place right now is Facebook Marketplace, and you can always email me for expert advice or help trying to sell them.

I get a little thrill from you commenting here!

Thanks for your feedback, I also started during The Dark!

I did think about doing climate change stuff, but Magic is in my blood for better or worse.

I hope we don't destroy the planet, and I hope we get to space, and then I think there will be at least a solar-system-sized economy of collectibles. Physical ones will be extra rare because of distance issues too.

Second mtgox ref and counting I think lol.

But more seriously, we might have other brands in the future... the domains need to all be awesome.

We don't have super deep inventory yet... you can probably find old cards and many cards cheaper elsewhere for now. But yeah those alphas are nuts.

I don't have my original cards, because I did a lot of buying/selling on eBay around 1999 when that was a pretty new thing to do with MTG cards. An older kid taught me to do it.

Credit for that is due to my wife Anna Hentzel Johnson (and previously also co-founder).

She came up with the idea and then it was insta-unanimous.

The WOTC CEO became Hasbro CEO last year FYI

Github issue filed

Come to Discord! We have shirts and an AirBnB, and we are happy to meet people.

1. Make integration easy, bring eyeballs. Sellers connect to multiple markets already.

2. I'll make Magic features for you that you'll use weekly.

I have a theory about verticalizing the buy-side UX and communities.

If I were to make my outdoor app again, I would focus 100% on one sport and never branch until we had 85% of the community.

Come to discord to chat more.

You did miss a bubble but the 1993/94 stuff is still crazy valuable.

1) 5% hopefully headed to 0%

2) Magic only

3) I think Hasbro is doing the right thing and what's good for Hasbro is good for Mana Pool. MTG is all of Hasbro's profits now and 30% of its revenue... the rest is almost margin-free. MTG is going to grow a lot further... pandemic brought forward revenue but collectibles will keep growing forever.

I'd love to talk more techie mtg stuff on our Discord: https://discord.gg/u4J5aGU2

My colleagues Nate and George are working on the hug of death.

p.s. come to Discord to discuss Mana Pool for the next many years, and for promo codes to purchase cards to help test... I will give free money until it gets out of hand, then discounts if so.

https://discord.gg/H6DyqsUT

Just does Magic!

Sure, those robots exists! Many actually, it's crazy.

If you come to Discord, I will tell you about the robots in the market.

https://discord.gg/u4J5aGU2

Yes, getting slammed and George is working on it in real-time.

You can see the deck/mass uploader start here: https://manapool.com/deck/add

1) We want to do things like this: https://x.com/manapoolinc/status/1704199592601080241?s=20

2) We have low fees (5%) and my vision is zero fees, with all revenue coming from value-add SaaS for buyers and sellers. I hope to get there in a gradual way.

3) I do think we're really good at software too, and that stuff like Stripe Marketplace and off-the-shelf computer vision make the lift low.

4) We know a lot of Magic people, and the network is so dense that if our website gets good, everyone will know.

It will take TCGPlayer and BinderPOS export formats, and you can email me at andrew@manapool.com if you want something else.

Aren’t they supposed to show up here and comment!

lol mtgox

i already had my crypto misadventure in 2013-14

could you please email me at andrew@manapool.com so I can get the details of your network and device?

We are using svelte for the front end, which I like and does interesting things with letting you decide what to SSR… but it’d be nice if we move to rendering things more statically with it maybe.

edit: site is degrading, cofounder George is working on the bottleneck

Please email me at andrew@manapool.com, there are 3 coders including me. I think we will hire next year. Two of the founders code, one does ops/logistics.

I am interested to hear anymore competitors!