Pokébinder

Planning a binder and printing true-size placeholders for missing cards is a clever idea. Does Pokebinder also distinguish different versions of the same card, like alternate art or reverse holos?

"the gaps stop being gaps and become a want list" is a great way to put it, and the fact that it came out of a way to include your daughter rather than a spreadsheet-nerd itch is what makes it feel genuine. one question on the Michi-method pages: if someone's custom artwork behind the binder is a different aspect ratio than a standard 3x3 grid, do you crop it or letterbox it, and does that get fiddly for people using odd source images off the internet?

This product is giving me nostalgic feels. I miss organizing my card binders IRL and feel like this could be a nice stress reliever.

Pokémon -I love them so much)) You've really made my day

I don't collect myself, but my niece does, so I will be sharing @Pokébinder with her when I see her next. Best of Luck with the launch.

Congrats on the launch Vinicius! great to see people still building cool projects instead of most of the ai slop these days. Im a collector myself and loved seeing your launch today, all the best!

Looks really cool! I know quite a few people who collect cards of football players, game characters and all sorts of other stuff too.Would be cool to see something like this beyond Pokémon as well ;)

Hey Product Hunt, I'm Vinicius, a collector and a developer.

This started with my four-year-old daughter. She wanted in on the hobby, and at card shows she obviously couldn't read set symbols or collector numbers, but she could match pictures. So I started printing the cards I was still missing at real card size and slotting them into the binder pages. She'd go around the show with me, compare it to what was on the tables, binder, and having genuinely found things before I realize. She was helping, and very engaged.

That turned out to solve my problem too. A binder page with three empty pockets looks unfinished for months while you hunt the last card, and the printed ones hold their place until the real card turns up. The gaps stop being gaps and become a want list easy to slot.

Pokébinder is that, as a tool. Search English or Japanese cards, drag them into 3×3 pages, and run your own artwork behind a whole page with the cards sitting on top (the Michi-method pages you've seen on Instagram). Mark what you don't own, and it prints exactly those at 6.3 × 8.8 cm, nine to an A4 or Letter sheet, with cut guides. They're binder placeholders, not proxies for play.

It's free, there's no account and no ads, and your binder is saved in your own browser rather than on my server. Other tools print a fixed catalogue of placeholders; this prints the binder you actually built, and only the cards you're missing.

I'd love to know how the print sizing lands on your printer, and what you'd want for a full master-set build. I'm here all day.