Hi HN,
I built Omi — a simple way to scan Pokémon cards with your phone and get instant results: name, set, and current market price.
I made this because managing a collection was a pain. Manually typing card names into TCGPlayer or eBay takes forever, and existing apps were either slow or clunky.
Omi uses on-device image recognition and a lightweight model fine-tuned on thousands of Pokémon card images. It does:
Card detection — even with uneven lighting or slightly rotated cards
Real-time lookup — low-latency match against a database of ~15k cards
Pricing — live price pulls from multiple marketplaces
The hardest part was getting good accuracy with cards that look nearly identical across different sets (hello, Pikachu variants). I ended up adding edge detection + set symbol recognition as a second pass, which massively reduced false matches.
You can try it here:
https://tcgscanneromi.com .
Would love feedback — especially around speed, accuracy on unusual cards, and ideas for features (bulk scanning? deck tracking?).
crovillas•1h ago