list.zslabs.com New tool for finding and comparing eBay searches

[zschnackel]

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Hi everyone!


Since getting back into collecting in 2015 after a 15 year hiatus, I’ve been amazed and how the landscape of the sports card industry has changed; with an extremely supportive community.


Since I don’t have a local card shop as I did when I was a kid, eBay has been my go-to for picking up my PC player, Peyton Manning - and I’ve used tools to help me follow multiple searches and pricing trends.


Since I’m a software engineer, I decided a fun project would be to create my own version of these types of tools - something that I can use myself and share with the community.


I just launched https://list.zslabs.com and would love your feedback! Some features I wanted to call-out:

• Mobile-first experience: I wanted List to have a great user experience - no matter the device.
• Minimal design, smooth animations: Subtle animations and whitespace-driven design throughout provide a great user experience without being too distractive.
• Reorder search terms via a convenient drag ’n drop.
• Inline search-term editing and refresh: Each search “panel” has a settings menu that allows you to edit, refresh, sort, or delete. I felt this was a great way to add more power to each term.
• Local-storage persistence: Search terms are saved to a user’s device, so that later visits will always bring you right back to where you left off.
• Changelog and feedback form: I want this tool to be a community-driven effort, so making visitors aware of new features and providing a way for them to leave feedback was incredibly important to me.

List is built to work best in modern browsers. I have a bunch of new features I’m working on currently and am really excited for everyone to check it out. Thanks for reading and have a great day!


P.S. For my tech friends - I used React for the frontend and a Lambda function to interact with the eBay API.

FAQ

How does this compare to tools like SortsOf?
Tools like SortsOf were certainly an inspiration for this project. A common-theme I found with the existing ones I've tried were:

• Lacking mobile experience: Since many were not responsive, I found it pretty hard to interact with on my phone (click targets were too small, scrolling was a dodgy experience). I also didn't want to have to download an app - as I felt things could be accomplished on the web.
• No inline editing: There was nothing more frustrating than making a spelling mistake before adding a search, then to have to remove and re-type. Sometimes my searches were pretty specific, so being able to edit inline was a nice piece of user experience I wanted to solve.
• No reordering: I would frequently have 10-15 searches across these tools and always wished there was a way to reorder them based on the priority I wanted them to take when I was using the tool.

I built List because I thought it'd be a fun project to work on and am very excited to continue to make it better from both my own ideas and feedback from the community. I hope everyone enjoys it!

[scottkoz20]

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Interesting concept, what difference does this have vs. other tools like sortsof?

[zschnackel]

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Interesting concept, what difference does this have vs. other tools like sortsof?

Hi Scott,
Thank you very much for your question! I went ahead and amended my original post with an answer to your question in the event anyone else that stops by has a similar one. Thanks again and have a great day!