u/LastUltimateY0l0

Hey everyone! I figured id post this as an update to what’s been going on with the app recently. (If you’d rather it be one thread, no problem at all!)

Beta testing has been going well. I’m in contact with eBay about the ‘finalized sale price’ access. And from there it’s stress testing, debugging, security auditing and doing some annoying privacy paperwork!

I’ll be sending out some more beta codes over the next couple of weeks so if you have commented before, keep an eye out for a rogue dm!

Hopefully launch isn’t too far away, but just wanted to thank you all for the support on this! My original post was mainly out of curiosity as I was building something id personally use. To know so many of you are excited/interested in it feels incredible! Hopefully we can get it over the line soon and we can do away with spreadsheets 😂❤️

Hey everyone. I started a channel a few months back and 7 videos in had my first real banger (20k views), my most recent upload from the other day has 3.2k and climbing. The channel only has 150 subs, but that number was 35 before the big upload. My channel is exclusively long form content.

Why did it spike?

The only reason these videos really performed is because I have 4-5 channels in different niches, a couple are quite big, a couple much smaller. But it meant I could hit the ground running, trust that my editing will keep retention very solid, and allows me to see what kind of thumbnail works for different niches and apply it when relevant.

A thumbnail style that worked for an NFL video was perfect for a different sport and the video took off. Had I not been building a portfolio of videos for 2-3 years, this new channel would’ve sucked.

If you have a new channel, YouTube naturally takes a while to find an audience for your videos. Keeping each upload within the same niche really builds that. So it’s probably going to seem like you’re fighting against the tide, but it really is a case of ‘nothing at first then all at once’.

I guess I’m making this post because people see new channels getting thousands of views and get frustrated it’s not happening to them. Those channels are probably ran by people who know the game inside out, can produce engaging content with high quality thumbnails without even thinking, but that only comes from experience and time

All of this to say, if you do have a new channel, it is going to take time and it’s going to be frustrating. But if you love making videos and are eager to learn, be self critical and adapt, you can cut the queue and make sizable leaps pretty quick when the stars align. The more experience you have the better and there’s no such thing as a bad video if you can learn from it.

My ‘small’ channel, feels like it has a leg up because of years of work I’ve put in before. And sometimes a style that might really be difficult to grow in one niche, would thrive in another

Just wanted to share this partly for motivation for people, and partly as a reminder that it takes years to blowup overnight, even if it looks like a new channel has done that. Just keep chopping wood and learning and the rest will follow

Hey everyone, thank you so much for the support on the app I’m building, figured I’d share an update

I’m NEARLY at a phase where I can allow a few people to test it, so if you want access, drop a comment or message Deepbreakvalue (my IG). Just trying to make sure it won’t explode when public 😂

- now has eBay live listing prices for each card and takes the average of all listed. I don’t have sold prices yet, it requires a different API you have to get through a support ticket which is hopefully in process

- your portfolio price is based off the average eBay listings for the cards you have (obvious flaw is someone doing a 99p start or 10k start looking for an offer, but it’s something)

- can mark a card as sold and calculate real P&L that will track per card.

- has a set completion tracker. Working on achievements, user pages and badges etc, but GDPR might ruin that

Let me know any thoughts you have and thanks again for letting me post it here! Hopefully it gives us a free/much cheaper/appealing alternative to track our hits!

Hey everyone, I’m in the middle of messing around with an app where I can track my personal collection because the alternatives are so expensive and lack a lot. I figured there might be a chance other people want to use it so happy to post it here when I finish

Feature ideas:

Live price updates as if it was a stock portfolio based off eBay sales

Ability to track not just the set but parallels/rainbows etc

Achievements (completing a rainbow, maybe a badge)

Personal collection (aside from sets) maybe people don’t want a random tsunoda base card being used in their portfolio of big hits lol

MAYBE a trade market concept where you can either set bounties for cards, list cards you want/or are trading and accept offers etc.

So far I have the databases for all chrome sets (working on eccelenza today) and a basic blueprint

Idk how viable it is or if there’s any interest but I’m having a blast building it out for my own use so figured I’d share it here

Any feedback, ideas, questions etc are all welcomed!

Going to be posting regular updates on my IG DeepBreakValue