Message from the CEO

Welcome to Heystack,

My name is Steve Sloan and I am the CEO of Heystack. As a long time collector, and someone who has worked in the hobby as a product manager, marketer and executive, I am elated to bring Heystack to the collecting world. We’ve made something different in Heystack, and I think you are going to like it.

Heystack is here to solve one of the most common problems in collecting: listing your cards quickly and efficiently without sacrificing quality.

When you look at today’s process to list, you see it’s really multiple problems rolled into one.

Imaging

Taking good images of your cards is hard. It’s difficult because there are no existing solutions that are built specifically for cards. You are either forced to use a scanner that is designed for documents (and could damage your cards), or you must develop your own custom imaging setup using your smartphone. This often involves multiple steps like controlling the lighting, finding a good background, and searching for the perfect angle to capture the best image possible. You see this issue every time you scroll popular commerce sites. Collectors need a better way!

Identification

Let's be honest - no matter how much you know about cards, the total card catalog is just too expansive to know EVERYTHING. No one expects this to change as the card market continues to expand with new product releases with more inserts and more parallels. This is a difficult problem to solve, no doubt. Heystack developed the industry's best card recognition software to help collectors with the identification and titling process. We’ve replaced research, verification and manual typing with a one-click confirmation process. Now you can fly through huge stacks of cards in no time.

Listing

Most ingestion flows are set up to image, identify and list cards one-by-one. We see the problem as “ripping by the box but selling by the single.” This needs to change in order to help collectors liquidate cards at a pace that matches the pace at which they acquire cards. We built Heystack to solve this issue. We want you to easily image stacks and stacks of cards and, using our best-in-class card recognition (that specializes in new releases, by the way), list them all in bulk to sites like eBay.

I’ve said enough - now I’d like you to try it for yourself. Create a free trial account to get started, and please reach out to me with any feedback at steve[at]heystack.tech.

All the best,

Steve Sloan
CEO, Heystack