Collecting & trading · iOS

CardCuteCollect

A digital binder for collectors who want to show their cards, find people to trade with, and trade photo for photo.

The app

A binder with trading built in

CardCuteCollect started with the part of collecting I enjoy most: keeping a binder, seeing what other people have, and finding a trade without turning the whole thing into a sales platform.

The iOS app is available now. I am also working on the Android version.

How it works

Collect, share, and trade

Digital binder. Add cards to a collection you can organize and show to other collectors.
Photo-for-photo trades. Offer a card from your binder for a card in someone else's binder, using the cards themselves as the trade.
Live feed. See what people are collecting, adding, and putting up for trade.

The shop side

The same brand also runs a card shop

CardCuteCollect also has a Shopify storefront for the kinds of cards the brand is built around. The app and shop share a name, but they do different jobs.

The app is for keeping, sharing, and trading a personal collection. The store is for finding something new to put in it.

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What it's built on

Shopify iOS Android in progress AI-assisted development

What I worked through

Trades need to stay simple and understandable

A trade feature has to make both sides clear: which card is being offered, which card is being requested, and what each person needs to do next. Building that flow taught me how quickly a simple idea can turn into a confusing screen if every status and action is shown at once.

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