Same

This app is feeling very cluttered and overwhelming, can’t wait to get to the simplifying phase…

Back to fixing bugs/workflow blocks, today in the Condition Review part of the system. The sleeved image shouldn’t have defect boxes marked on it so that’s what’s being fixed right now. As soon as I can make it through this step with these seven cards we’re almost at the end of this system, generating the csv with the data we’ve generated through the workflow and list 🙃 not fully automated yet, just need it working for now as I’ve spent a month and a half on it and haven’t listed anything since January…

gm

I like that, I’ll have to look up his writings.

The next significant step in this trading card manager is generating eBay API keys, establishing a connection to them, and utilizing them to directly upload items and images to listings. However, I’m extremely hesitant and hesitant to proceed with this task. 😅 i’m not sure why, I’ve already been approved for the eBay stuff. I just need to set it up.

*insert daily ‘card tool’ dev update* 🙃

I can’t replicate the issue. It’s working fine on Phone and desktop Safari, incognito and normal.

This is the AI slop my nieces watch on YouTube https://youtube.com/shorts/e_wteM3P_FM?si=VTdJ_HTt6MyxA5Fq

2026-02-10 For the last few weeks, maybe a month and a half, it’s felt like my eBay sales fell off a cliff. At first I tried to explain it the normal ways. Maybe it’s seasonal, maybe the Christmas money dried up and people tighten up for a while. I’ve seen predictable slumps and peaks before, back when I was generating paperwork at the youth ranch thrift store that showed it. Then I started looking for platform reasons. eBay changes things, traffic shifts, and I wondered if I just wasn’t getting the same exposure. But that didn’t fully fit the numbers in my head, because I’ve ramped up hard, from around 100 items near the start of last year to over a thousand by the end. If my “fishing” thesis is right, more hooks in the water should mean more impressions, which should mean more views, which should mean more sales, at least in aggregate. I kept telling myself sales are out of my control. Or so I thought. I even let it drift into macro stuff. You scroll social media for two seconds and end up seeing the world on fire. Things feel like they’re heating up globally, and I wondered if people were just spending less because of the general background fear. Who knows. But today I opened the seller page to fulfill the first order I’ve had in a few days, hovered over the marketing tab, and clicked into promotions. Then it hit me: I’d been running that “buy more, save more” discount, the one that not only nudges bigger orders but also creates that visible little callout on the listings page, and it expired on December 31st. So I’ve basically gone almost 40 days without the exact thing that was helping drive sales and bulk sales. I turned it back on immediately. I feel a little stupid, but whatever, this one doesn’t expire for years, and now I get to see if that missing lever was the whole story or just part of it. Either way, it puts me back where I need to be: moving product and increasing my surface area to the market instead of spiraling on explanations. The Pokémon card workflow still needs to get unstuck too. I’m leaning toward abandoning the full API dream for now and having the app generate a clean CSV plus a folder of final cropped, organized images, something that I can actually push through consistently to get inventory up.

I hope I earn enough/save enough before it does that 😂

Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to earn bitcoin directly

Amazon apparently sold some copies of my yo-yo book last year, as they sent me the royalty tax form for tax time. Now, I’m wondering where the money is.

I feel like a lot of conspiracy theories can just be wiped away with “inflation“.

I would say I’m a technology fan in the same way others are sports fans, i’m not necessarily good at it, but I will go out of my way to learn a little more about it just for fun

A test trick video post. This is a behind the back catch https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rK1uUX7NyHk

yoyostr test post

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Time to go shampoo vac my old room. yaaayyyyyy….

Used gpt’s agent to review the card app and asked it to guide me through applying for the eBay api creds. It just did it for me 😂 I guess it’s time to test and see if listing directly from the app is possible…

Maybe they released the e files so we wouldn’t notice it’s the Winter Olympics?

gm :) at some point I’ll have to try this out