I'm building an operational dashboard for solo entrepreneurs in the collectibles market.

Most of the people in this space are tech illiterate, but I think that's going to change when they start to age out.

The next generation of antique dealers and collectibles market curators are going to need tools built for them.

I only entered the space 6 months ago after inheriting some old vintage travel and tourism material. I was lured in! I've spent the last 15 years of my tech career working on custom built systems that are perfectly suited and tailored to my needs and the needs of my team.

As soon as I started shopping on ebay, checking comps on worthpoint, browsing for auctions on liveauctioneers, manually searching hathitrust and other institutions for research... I started to want to build my own tools immediately.

I don't want 15 different dashboards. I want one. So, I plan to leverage my technical background and expertise in building systems to hopefully enable me outmaneuver other dealers and curators.

I hope to build custom intake pipelines. There's a keyword crisis in the collectibles market. If the seller doesn't put the right keyword in their listing, or the buyer doesn't put the right keyword in their search query, the two never meet. I look for very specific types of old vintage travel and tourism material, and I have to manage a list of hundreds of search terms in order just to find one specific type of item. They are out there, they're just hidden and unaccessible.