I’ve been recently thinking about the different online tools we use to manage our collection and was wondering what are some of the things you wish were out there that currently aren’t?
Are you looking for a completely separate thing to track your collection or are their features you wish current websites/tools already had?
I would love a database similar to pkmncards.com that has Japanese cards from every era shown in good quality. Pokellector sorta does the job, though lots of cards are missing and the site load times vary greatly. Bulbapedia doesn’t show every art easily and is fairly complicated to use for certain things. How it presents cards is also a bit odd for what I would want when browsing. Even pkmncards doesn’t have all of the English cards and various errors and oddities…
There are some Japanese sites (I assume), but I would prefer one that doesn’t require any sort of translation by myself or google auto translate. Sometimes there are graphics or certain text strings that don’t get picked up by the translator on these sites.
tldr: pkmncards but for japanese 
I want to also note how pkmncards has the ability to search cards through soo many metrics, including artist.
Afaik there is no collection tracking App featuring more languages than English and Japanese. I think if there was one I’d consider keeping track of my entire collection digitally.
sealed item database
Every single card. And this may sound very simple. but they arent out there. Like i mean EVERY card. Like Japanese Exclusive promos, and thats just things we dont have much on. Atleast in english, and google translate doesnt do a good job at translating sites. Also No Watermark 
Can you share any of those Japanese sites? Do they have something similar to the bulbapedia? Cant find anything even with VPN
Well for Japanese & English there’s at least the X Era or X Series TCG Merchandise articles on Bulbapedia respectively.
Yeah I know about these but they are extremely incomplete
I would love to have an aggregator that allows me to conveniently track graded cards that I need for my collection across all platforms and see a simple alert when they pop up for sale.
I do not enjoy having to hawk many different platforms and it absolutely causes me to miss things that I might otherwise have purchased or bid on.
Broad strokes: I think that too many tools focus on the value of what I already have and comprehensively creating my collection within their ecosystem. I’m not at all interested in those types of platforms. Give me tools that help me to grow my collection. That’s something that I’m not seeing a lot of development in.
This site’s a lot better than Pokellector. Been using it for awhile. It’s pretty much taken all the cards from the pokemon-card database through to Pokemon Go. Thereafter anything with SR rarity and above are scans from card marketplaces since Japan doesn’t update those in HD until the next set drops.
Older set cards have varying scan quality but most sets are updated. Not sure there is a site as comprehensive as this right now.
Not sure how you would like to track them but they have options to specify language of all available ones.
That’s pretty nice, thanks. The only thing stopping me from using that site is that they don’t count Simplified and Traditional Chinese separately. I think I’ll write them a message about that, if they correct that then the site is indeed what I was looking for.
High res official images of every JP card released or distributed since 1996, accompanied by images of the artist’s original work
You can join their Discord and suggest it!
I think it should be an easier ask.
One reason for the comprehensiveness is the dev in charge is very responsive and people continue to update different variants of cards released around the world.
Not sure what their plan is for cards that are neither Japanese or international exclusive though like Taipei’s Pikachu and Pikachu in a Batik Shirt.
I suggested this to @TCGFish but would be cool to see a graph that plots PSA/CGC/BGS population over time and the market price. How fast does graded population rise when sale prices shoot up? How fast do prices come down again after? Which cards are resistant to price movements even as population grows?
A database that has images of all variants would be great as well though not sure there is any will to want to host that many images. Right now we have a mix of scans for English cards pre-BW and then we don’t get any more cards with cosmos. Also even if the texture is not as good as JP, having those on the digital scans of the awful SR/HR/UR cards would make them look less drab and lifeless. Still no clue how they approved the monocoloured type backgrounds in SM.
And since even the actual card databases are still not complete 25 years on, it’s even a bigger ask for merchandise databases. Bulbapedia has a lot, but of course I have no idea if it is comprehensive or not because I don’t know any other sites to use.
Having digital scans of the pack art, marketing materials and art used for clear files, deck boxes and especially sleeves would be great. Would make for collecting artists and species a lot easier.
I want Scryfall, but for Pokémon.
Non-TCG database. It would be an absolute dream. 
I initially started this thread to get some inspiration for doing a fun User Experience Design project, and am realizing that I should’ve done data science because scraping this amount of info would be so cumbersome and I wouldn’t know in the slightest how to build an effective search engine. hahah
It is great to see how everyone has different wishes tho, and I think it’s nice that we are able to see the opportunities in building something more even when there is so much information out there.
the dev in charge is very responsive
Yup, can confirm that. Got a response to my message and now both Traditional and Simplified Chinese are available as options.
Fyi I built this for personal use tailored around Japanese cards. I scrape Yahoo Auctions, Mercari, Goldin, RareCandy, and a few other auction sites and send alerts based on keyword matching. Below is my search for anything Bakaboon related:
OR(
keywords["Bakaboon"],
AND(keywords["CoroCoro"], "2002 6"),
AND(
keywords["Battle Road"],
OR(keywords["Imakuni"], "2002"),
),
AND(
keywords["card"],
OR(
"こんな時代だからこそ",
"サチコは思わずタカオを",
"宇宙快速「ラピッドマスター」で",
"ビキニスタイルの",
"マーガレット・コズボーンが",
"群衆が",
"平家が",
"大家さんを",
"ルーファラ・コズボーンを",
"あの頃のオレを",
"封じ込め、そして平和がおとずれた",
"映画化",
"まだ勝負はわからないぜ",
"ものまねをやるのだ",
),
"bakudan",
)
)
Where keywords maps to Japanese translations. So "バトルロード イマクニ" on JP markets (or “Battle Road Imakuni” for English markets) would cause an alert to be sent to me.
I haven’t scoped out alerting on specific graded-cards. Most sites store the cert ID so it is easy to look up against pop reports. I assume desired behavior in your case is to select multiple cards from PSA and CGC pop reports and receive texts/email when any of them pop up across multiple marketplaces?