LensFlip β Scan. Know. Flip.
The flippers app
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The flippers app
2 followers
Scan items at thrift stores and garage sales to instantly see what they sell for, also provides lists of garage and estate sales nearby based on zip code provided.
Hey Product Hunt, Jake here, the maker behind FlipScan.
Quick story on why this exists: I have a full-time day job, and like a lot of folks I started flipping thrift store finds on the side to make extra money. The problem I kept hitting was the same one every flipper hits, you find something interesting, but you have no idea if it's actually worth flipping. Pulling out your phone and manually searching eBay sold listings while standing in a Goodwill aisle is a terrible experience, and most "what's it worth" apps either show eBay's ASKING prices (useless) or charge a fortune for sold-data access.
So I built FlipScan to do one thing well: scan a barcode or take a photo, and within a few seconds see what the item ACTUALLY sold for recently on eBay (and Mercari for clothing/small goods). Plus a quick BUY / PASS verdict if you tell it the store's asking price.
Under the hood it's a Flask API on a small VPS, Claude Vision for photo identification, and custom scrapers I built to get real sold-price data (the official eBay Marketplace Insights API is locked to enterprise). The hardest part wasn't the scraping β it was getting the relevance right so a "Spellbook board game" scan doesn't return Dungeons & Dragons spell cards. That took a lot of iteration.
A few things I'd genuinely love feedback on:
1. Does the landing page make the value clear in the first 5 seconds?
2. Pricing: is the free trial too short / too long? Subscription too high?
3. Anything in the scan flow that feels broken or confusing?
Happy to answer anything about the tech stack, the scraping approach, the pricing decisions, or the side-hustle journey. Honest critique > polite likes.