Devlog: May 3, 2025

May 3 2025

SavePoint

• Maybe I’m not done with the API yet lol
• Lets set up a structure for user data!
  • For consoles/platforms, we will use our own enums (# values)
  • And we can add a # or a letter to indicate physical or digital
  • For video games, use the DB ids (no slugs, no names, no upcs)
• When we sign up for the first time, a popup will show up to set name, location, username, platforms that we have
• I’m also realizing some games might have different UPCs (same game, different platform) (need to fix
• I went with friends and we went to Chumleigh’s, I ended up talking to manager about POS system (see note!). Excellent talk, now I understand what to prioritize!

Business Section, API + rough ideas to implement features Game and product scanning (via photo recognition)

• Google Cloud Vision API or Amazon Rekognition (I want to use this)
• Meant to detect game title/artwork/platform from photos

Smart search (for games) + inventory system (to check inventory)

• Typesense or Melisearch
• Search will be used to 1. Search for games (to add to inventory) and 2. Search actual inventory

Game pricing

• eBay developer API with Finding/Browse APIs
• PriceCharting is inaccurate, they mostly use eBay
• I believe I used these APIs for a project… look around code for this!

Game info

• IGDB (main), RAWG (alternative) -> we are already using both

• Do barcode lookup via PriceCharting or eBay (all other random sources are paid :( )

• I think my current plan is to 1. Create the rough ReactNative frontend for users, and 2. to create a PriceCharting alternative using my own eBay scripts.

  • This would be its own repo because it is an involved project
  • I will use eBay apis, and search 1. using upc or 2. name as a fallback
  • SavePoint: Vault?

• I tried to use eBay API but they don’t have these listings :(. So, I will make a web scraper to do this!

• eBay has New, like new, very good, good, acceptable fields

• eBay also has new, used

• we can also use search to query for these results

Notes:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=super+mario+odyssey&_sacat=0&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1

class: x-refine__multi-select (for condition selects)
-> we are looking for 'LH_ItemCondition={number}'

NEW: href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fsrp=1&_from=R40&_nkw=093155176119&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&LH_ItemCondition=3"

USED: href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fsrp=1&_from=R40&_nkw=093155176119&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&LH_ItemCondition=4"

each selection has this: x-refine__main__list--value
-> x-refine__multi-select: contains an <a> with the link
-> cbx x-refine__multi-select-cbx: contains the name of the condition

Need to check x-refine__item__title-container if this == Condition
MAIN: x-refine__main__list

• The way we are going to organize the conditions/pricing of the game is based of of eBay
  • So, some games will just have New and Used
  • Some games will have all/some of the above options seen
  • We will just use the category names directly from eBay

CURRENT PLAN:

• Clean up/finish eBay scraper
  • Compare pricing to Price Charting
  • Check for any other game pricing sources (get from GameStop)
  • Remember to convert prices to desired currency! (all in USD)
  • Connect to API
• Start designing the inventory system (api endpoints)
  • Basic inventory system
  • Game/product scanning (barcode, image recognition)
  • Payment processing (Stripe terminal)
  • Memberships? (also probably Stripe)
• Start seeing how to implement search (this would be used by business/personal!)