Another business problem solved by AI. 🤖 At Izzi's Gym, our kiosk does serious volume. Customers browse our inventory through TCGPlayer, p…
By Christopher Hamze · Archived October 2, 2026
Another business problem solved by AI. 🤖
At Izzi's Gym, our kiosk does serious volume. Customers browse our inventory through TCGPlayer, pick their cards, and we pull them from the back for checkout. Great system — except there was no way to know when an order came in, and printing pick tickets meant someone had to physically go check and print manually.
So I built a fix.
I devised an app that:
→ Connects to TCGPlayer's API
→ Pulls kiosk order data in real time
→ Generates a formatted pick ticket PDF
→ Automatically emails it to our laser printer
→ Runs on a cron job every minute
Orders now print themselves. Instantly. Without anyone lifting a finger.
Total cost? About 8 hours of my time. That's it.
This will save us dozens of hours every single week — and it'll pay for itself before the end of the week.
There is something deeply satisfying about identifying a real operational problem and being able to solve it yourself for practically nothing. That feeling never gets old.
The future is now. And honestly? I feel unstoppable.
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