Cardboard / Card Search
Design Exploration

Feature Concept - Market & Want List

Card Search

Building a Want List today means typing every field by hand - year, set, player, parallel, grade. And if a card isn't sitting in your box yet, there's nowhere in the app to check what it's worth: no looking up a friend's pull, no pricing a trade on the spot. That's the one thing Card Ladder does that Cardboard doesn't.

Card Search fixes both with one universal search bar over the Card Hedge price database. Type a card, get real matches with live values - owned or not.

Cost: rides the existing Card Hedge proxy + cache - every search is one cached upstream call through /ch/*, well inside the current rate budget. Low incremental cost.

The Flow

1 SearchUniversal bar - searches every card in the database, owned or not.
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Search

2023 Wembanyama Prizm PSA 10
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Search covers every card in the database, not just what you own - check a friend's pull or price a trade on the spot.

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123 space Search
2 ResultsRanked matches with live FMV and 30-day change at a glance.
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Results
2023 Wembanyama Prizm PSA 10
5 results

Victor Wembanyama

2023 Prizm #1 PSA 10

$1,480 12.4%

Victor Wembanyama

2023 Prizm Silver #1 PSA 10

$612 4.1%

Victor Wembanyama

2023 Prizm #1 PSA 9

$340 3.2%

Victor Wembanyama

2023 Select #1 PSA 10

$890 6.5%

Victor Wembanyama

2023 Prizm #1 Raw

$210 1.8%
Collection
Want List
Market
Trades
Profile
3 Card DetailRead-only market view - price history, grade ladder, one-tap add.
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2023 Panini Prizm #1

Victor Wembanyama

PSA 10

Fair Market Value

$1,480 12.4%

Last 90 days

Raw

$210

PSA 9

$340

PSA 10

$1,480

Pre-filled from this card - nothing to type

Collection
Want List
Market
Trades
Profile

One surface, two jobs

Want List, search-driven

"+ Add Want" opens this search instead of a blank form. Pick the exact year, set, parallel, and grade from real results - nothing typed by hand.

Look up any card, anytime

The same bar works standalone for cards you don't own - Card Ladder parity, built into the app you already have open.

Suggested placement: pin the search bar atop the Market tab, and reuse it as the entry point behind every "+ Add Want" action.