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I launched my first startup on HN 15 years ago (see my profile), and I wanted to post here again now.\n\nLike my last one, this project comes from one of my life's passions. I have played Magic: The Gathering for 30 years.\n\nMy co-founders and I think Magic deserves its own market, and this thinking will lead to dozens of ways to make a great app. We consider what we have an MVP, and we are all going to MagicCon this weekend in Las Vegas to walk around in our Mana Pool shirts and talk to people about the future.\n\nIf HN likes the site, I would appreciate you crashing it before we head ou",{"problem":52,"audience":64,"pricing":70,"motivation":77,"time_to_build":81,"stack":82,"openness":108,"stage":109,"team_size":110},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Gives Magic card buyers and sellers a dedicated marketplace with low fees and tools","maker",[56,58,61],{"id":57},"post",{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},"37589192","1) We want to do things like this: https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002Fmanapoolinc\u002Fstatus\u002F1704199592601080241?s=20 2) We have low fees (5%) and my vision is zero fees, with all revenue coming from…",{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},"37589506","Just does Magic!",{"value":65,"source":66,"evidence":67},"Magic: The Gathering players, buyers and sellers of cards","inferred",[68,69],{"id":57},{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},{"value":71,"source":54,"evidence":72},"5% seller fee, aiming for zero fees",[73,76],{"id":74,"by":11,"text":75},"37589578","1) 5% hopefully headed to 0% 2) Magic only 3) I think Hasbro is doing the right thing and what's good for Hasbro is good for Mana Pool. MTG is all of Hasbro's profits now and 30%…",{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},{"value":78,"source":54,"evidence":79},"Founder has played Magic for 30 years and sees a market need",[80],{"id":57},null,[83,92,96,100,104],{"value":84,"source":54,"evidence":85},"Svelte",[86,89],{"id":87,"by":11,"text":88},"37601807","Svelte, Node, Vercel, Supabase\u002FPostgres, Stripe, WandB, Amplitude, Sentry, ConvertKit, Mailgun, Slack, Discord, Google, ZenDesk, Miro, Figma, Clerky, Mercury, Xero, and Pilot…",{"id":90,"by":11,"text":91},"37588768","could you please email me at andrew@manapool.com so I can get the details of your network and device? We are using svelte for the front end, which I like and does interesting…",{"value":93,"source":54,"evidence":94},"Node",[95],{"id":87,"by":11,"text":88},{"value":97,"source":54,"evidence":98},"Vercel",[99],{"id":87,"by":11,"text":88},{"value":101,"source":54,"evidence":102},"Supabase\u002FPostgres",[103],{"id":87,"by":11,"text":88},{"value":105,"source":54,"evidence":106},"Stripe",[107],{"id":87,"by":11,"text":88},"unknown","launched","team",{"praise":112,"objections":144,"requests":178,"questions":196,"alternatives":215},[113,129],{"value":114,"source":115,"evidence":116},"Clean, fast, responsive site design","commenter",[117,121,125],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"37589502","fsn4dN69ey","It's clean, works well, great job! How does this compare to TCGPlayer on a fundamental level?",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"37592348","wonderwonder","This is a really nicely done site. Very responsive, straight to the point. I dig it",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"37591569","dansalvato","I love how snappy and no-nonsense this is compared to other sites out there. I play casually at the moment and don't really buy\u002Fsell singles, but I like looking up card prices.…",{"value":130,"source":115,"evidence":131},"Great name and domain",[132,136,140],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"37589879","abatilo","Just here to say that's a GREAT name",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"37590377","hombre_fatal","love the domain name.",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"37593278","blobbers","shockingly great domain name! How long have you owned it?",[145,160,167],{"value":146,"source":115,"evidence":147},"Site slow or erroring under load",[148,152,156],{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"37588741","turtlebits","Site isn't working or is slow. And more frustratingly, the buttons below the input seem to use javascript which prevent the browser loading indicator from showing - so you can't…",{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"37590067","Mizza","Website has that slow, React-y feeling, unfortunately. Good name though.",{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"37589162","HanClinto","Tinkering around with the search tools, and a few things I'm noticing. I feel like Availability should default to In Stock, but maybe that will come once you have more inventory…",{"value":161,"source":115,"evidence":162},"Checkout asks for card before showing tax and shipping",[163],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"37593316","Jaecen","The checkout process requiring I enter my credit card details before seeing the final cost (tax + shipping) is strange and discourages me from proceeding.",{"value":168,"source":115,"evidence":169},"Hard to beat TCGPlayer and eBay on fees and liquidity",[170,174],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"37590783","difosfor","Cool! Do you intend to compete with Cardmarket in the EU as well? Or just start up in the US?",{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"37592291","_raoulcousins","So why this over tcgplayer’s low costs or card kingdom’s generous buylist? Can you make a cart optimizer that works?",[179,186,190],{"value":180,"source":115,"evidence":181},"Trading feature and decklist-to-cart",[182],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"37590626","rvrs","Any plans to add a trading feature? Maybe something similar to PucaTrade (though their points system got really inflated towards the end) EDIT: Also, an \"add decklist to cart\"…",{"value":187,"source":115,"evidence":188},"Price history and market value data",[189],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},{"value":191,"source":115,"evidence":192},"Better CSV import documentation",[193],{"id":194,"by":158,"text":195},"37589042","Looking at seller tools, I could really use a help document explaining what sorts of CSV columns you support on this page: https:\u002F\u002Fmanapool.com\u002Fseller\u002Finventory\u002Fimport It just…",[197,207],{"value":198,"source":115,"evidence":199},"What is the fee structure and how will it compete with TCGPlayer",[200,204],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"37589327","oflannabhra","This is awesome, just signed up! I love it when hobbies collide :) Some context for others: Magic: the Gathering has grown enormously over the past 30 years, and it has an…",{"id":205,"by":158,"text":206},"37589055","Nice job launching this site -- that's a big venture, and no easy feat! 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