Show Mode and the four dealer tools

2 Jul 2026 v0.7.0 New

The card-show interface: big verdicts, zero clutter, the same numbers as the full view. Search moved to a local index of the whole English catalog, so results are instant. Revaluation, a watchlist with alerts, a grading-profit finder and CSV import and export arrived together.

Show Mode: a one-screen stage for the show floor, with a grade rail and a tape of recent sales.
Instant search over the whole English catalog, with typo correction.
Watchlist and price alerts: tell me when PSA 10 drops below my number.
Revaluation of everything you own or watch, so the watchlist and its alerts run on fresh values.
Worth grading? The arithmetic either side of a PSA 10, with no pretend gem rate.
CSV import and export; a spreadsheet can never smuggle in a price.
The forecast learned reprint risk and set demand, bounded so it can never flip a falling card to buy.

Show Mode came from the table. The full view is built for reading at a desk: panels, explanations, a chart you can question. Across a show table you need the opposite: the value, the verdict and the grade, big enough to read at arm's length, and nothing else. So Show Mode strips the words and keeps the numbers. The rule that makes it safe is simple: it hides words, never numbers. The value you see in Show Mode is, to the cent, the value the full view shows for the same card and grade.

The first version's giant verdict type was too readable by the person across the table, so it stepped down the same day, and a quiet tape of recent sales went in underneath so the big number can be checked against real sales. The redesign that followed, the stage, is one surface: the card's identity, a grade rail with one-tap Raw, PSA 9 and PSA 10 chips, the price and the call, the tape, and the honesty footer. Its direction stat compares the median of the first half of the sale days with the last half, which turned one card's misleading 471 percent into an honest 2.

The same week brought the rest of the dealer kit. Search stopped asking a remote database and started reading a local index of 20,359 cards, so a result lands in milliseconds and a typo like gangar still finds Gengar. The watchlist and its alerts arrived, with a revaluation that re-prices everything you own or watch through the same pipeline as a lookup, so a stored value never disagrees with the page. The grading finder does the arithmetic either side of a PSA 10 and refuses to guess your odds. CSV import and export round-trip your binder, and a value column in a spreadsheet is ignored on the way in.

What it became: a phone pass in September gave every Show Mode control a thumb-sized target; the Show Pack lets a Pro member carry the stored answers for their collection and watchlist into a hall with no signal; and since October the stage names the grade it actually priced, so a CGC 9 served from PSA 9's sales reads exactly that.