AI Verdict
Confidence: MediumNiche market with passionate users and proven willingness to pay, but requires differentiation beyond basic price checking. Opportunity in advanced analytics and prediction tools for the growing Pokémon investing segment.
Financials
Buildability
PokeScreener
PokeScreener is a webapp where you can check prices of Pokemon cards and create collections for your cards. Customers will need to upgrade to a pro account to use our premium features like: creating unlimited collections, unlimited daily scans for Pokemon cards etc.
Pokémon card pricing SaaS with $716 MRR growing 31% monthly in niche collector market.
Data accuracy and user collections (switching costs) - weak moat currently
- Pokémon TCG collectors/investors who need price tracking and portfolio management
- Casual collectors organizing personal collections
- No market prediction tools
- Limited social features
- No trading/marketplace integration
- Basic analytics only
- AI-powered price predictions
- Grading submission tracking
- Sealed product portfolio
- Marketplace arbitrage alerts
Medium - collectors share collections/valuations, but limited network effects
- Pokémon market volatility
- TCGplayer/eBay API changes
- Data accuracy challenges
- Limited market size ceiling
$15k-30k for MVP (development, design, initial data)
- Card database with real-time pricing
- Collection tracker with total value
- Scanning tool (mobile/webcam)
- Basic portfolio analytics
Skip: Advanced analytics, Market predictions, Trading features, Mobile app