StartupComic inventory & marketplace software
Stash
Point a camera at a comic. Get back the book, its market value, and what to do with it next.
Collectors and shops run on spreadsheets, then sell across a dozen marketplaces that agree on nothing. Stash replaces both: a catalog of more than a million priced issues, Anthropic's vision models recognizing a book from its cover, and valuations that resolve grade by grade.
One system carries all of it. A single application serves the web product, the public API, and an OAuth-secured MCP server — so Claude and ChatGPT can read and write a collection directly, with the owner's permission. The iOS app shares that same backend rather than duplicating it. Scan on the phone; it is already on the desktop.
Selling is where collectors lose their time, so the catalog pushes outward: eBay through its API, plus Facebook, Instagram, Whatnot, Heritage and a dozen more channels. Barcode labels and point-of-sale for brick-and-mortar shops are in progress.
- 01
Recognize
A phone camera and Anthropic's vision models identify a book from its cover — series, issue, variant — and match it against a catalog of more than a million priced issues.
- 02
Value
Valuations resolve grade by grade, so a collection is worth what the market says it is, not what a spreadsheet guessed last year.
- 03
Connect
One application serves the web product, the public API, and an OAuth-secured MCP server. Claude and ChatGPT can read and write a collection directly, with the owner's permission.
- 04
Sell
The catalog pushes outward to eBay through its API, plus Facebook, Instagram, Whatnot, Heritage and a dozen more channels. Labels and point-of-sale for shops are in progress.
Try it — point your camera at a comic
Ready
- Series
- Issue
- Publisher
- Year
- Variant
A live slice of Stash’s recognition step, running on Claude. In the product, a match resolves against the catalog for grade-by-grade market value. Photos aren’t stored.
- Next.js
- Supabase
- Anthropic
- MCP
- Stripe Connect
- eBay API
- React Native