Posts mentioning PENNY, inventory, a check-in queue, buybacks, or running a store.
Imported October 2, 2026. This is a static archive. Posts follow their LinkedIn activity order; publication dates appear only when verified.
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Your next customer might never see your website. They'll ask an AI agent to find the product, and the agent will buy it for them. That's not a prediction anymore. Meta's new AI agent, Muse, can now check out from Shopify stores with one ta…
Read the post →“We bought a Pikachu” is an incomplete business record. Which set? Which card number? What condition? Which finish? How many copies? Those details affect what we pay, how we list it, and what a customer expects to receive. We used AI to bu…
Read the post →I've been dealing with a lot of theft lately. Customers. People I trusted. It wears on you in a way that's hard to explain, because it isn't really about the money. It's about the trust. Somewhere in the middle of it, a thought settled on…
Read the post →Before you add staff, make the waiting visible. At our card shop, customers bring in collections to sell. Each collection takes a different amount of time to evaluate. We used AI to build a check-in queue inside PENNY. Customers enter thei…
Read the post →90% instant buyback sounds like a great deal. That's the problem. I sell Pokémon packs for a living, so I'm not anti-ripping. Opening packs is fun. The rip, the reveal, the chase. It's a big part of why this hobby is so great. But there's…
Read the post →Custom software becomes an operating decision We run a Pokémon card shop. We used AI to write the software that helps run it. It's called PENNY. It handles collection buying, inventory entry, pricing tools, customer records, order picking,…
Read the post →The hardest decision of my day: buy more tokens or wait for the reset. Not inventory. Not payroll. Not the eBay fee change. Tokens. Twelve years I built software with a team of developers. Now I build alone with AI. It writes the code. It…
Read the post →I am in love with my new eBay MCP. Listing used to be the job nobody wanted. Photograph it. Write a title. Fill in item specifics. Pick the category. Check comps. Set a price. Repeat. 5 to 10 minutes an item. Which is exactly why there was…
Read the post →I just let ChatGPT watch my workflow and explain the bottlenecks through a normal conversation with its new voice agent. No long spec document. No meeting. No technical background needed. I showed it what I do, talked through each step, an…
Read the post →The cheapest inventory in my building is a longbox of comics nobody will ever buy. So we're turning it into an event. Bargain Bin Dungeon. $5. Two hours. Seven seats. You draft four comics off the cover art alone. You have never read them.…
Read the post →My first business died in a puddle of melted chocolate. I was 8 years old. Chris and Nick Candy Company, me and my twin brother. We had product. We had customers. We had a display case. We put the display case in direct sunlight. Every cho…
Read the post →My dad and I owned restaurants for most of my life. Everything was a fight. The POS. The menu boards. The phones. The website. The marketing. Every tool cost real money, broke constantly, and locked you into some vendor's contract. If you…
Read the post →July was another record month for us. Up 25% across the board. Over 5,000 unique customers in the store, 8,000 online. For the first time, online passed in-store. We're on pace for $8M+ this year. Here's the part nobody puts in the announc…
Read the post →We love Beyblade and we can't get enough of it and the inventory is limited (like everything these days), so when we have the ability to buy pallets (this is pallet 1 of 3) of stadiums, we close our eyes and pull the trigger.
Read the post →Recently, I posted about my inventory problem at Izzi's. Here's what I did about it. Tuesday night I had an idea: a way to get more PSA slabs into the store. Two days later it's live. Cost: basically zero. No posting on Upwork. No intervie…
Read the post →Three years ago I petitioned TikTok for a processing-time exemption for made-to-order and print-on-demand sellers. It's finally real. TikTok Shop is rolling out Custom Handling Time — 3 to 7 days instead of the standard 2 — for sellers who…
Read the post →I'm facing a problem I've never had in 20+ years of business. When my dad and I ran restaurants, we never hit a point where I couldn't buy pepperoni. When I built teelaunch, there was never a Gildan shirt shortage. Grow the business, order…
Read the post →Nobody sells Pokémon cards on DoorDash. So we did. Guerrilla marketing has one rule: get your name in front of people everywhere you can, for free. DoorDash has millions of buyers and almost zero competition for what we sell. No card shops…
Read the post →Stord just raised $250M at a $3B valuation. Worth reading the founder's note. The line that stuck with me: "9 of the 10 largest US companies by revenue operate physical networks at scale. Physical foundations built with the right technolog…
Read the post →He took 2 years off to recover. I didn't. A former business partner stopped by Izzi's Gym today. The guy who was in the trenches with me when we built the old company. The one who bottomed out the same time I did. We didn't just build a bu…
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