If you're a card shop, vendor, repacker, or anyone regularly buying Pokémon or One Piece cards, I'd love for you to check out what we've been building. We created @CardFlow_ to make sourcing inventory easier, from managing your buylist to connecting with sellers who already have the cards you're looking for. We're opening early access soon. Would love to hear what you think!

Building a startup has taught me that sometimes you have to recognize when something isn't working and be willing to change direction. We spent over a year building CardFlow as a TCG marketplace. I self-funded the company, traveled to shows, spent countless hours working on it, and poured everything I could into making it successful. But after launching, the traction just wasn't there. I'm not going to lie, it took a toll on me mentally. There were some really dark moments where I questioned whether everything I had put into this was worth it. But instead of giving up, I started looking back at everything I'd learned. The conversations I had with vendors, buyers, and businesses at the shows we attended. The problems they were facing and how they operated. I started analyzing the market from a different perspective. And one thing became clear: professional buyers are constantly looking for inventory, yet acquiring it is still a fragmented and time consuming. That's what led us to rethink CardFlow. Instead of trying to build another marketplace, we're building an acquisition platform designed to help businesses buy more inventory while spending less time sourcing it. We still have a lot to prove, but for the first time in a while, I feel like we're building toward the vision I originally had for CardFlow. Becoming the liquidity layer for the trading card industry. I'm excited to share with you guys a quick demo of what's coming next for CardFlow. Buy More. Work Less.

Time to run it back!