Plasticfolk
What has changed, and what is new.
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Is a figure missing something, or does a part need replacing? Open the figure, edit the copy and mark Missing/broken parts. You can then choose exactly which parts you want to take care of later.
Every part you mark appears on the Missing parts overview, together with the figure, prices and useful links.
I’ve just updated the wording for the feature levels. “Pro” is now “Advanced”, and “Premium” is becoming “Pro”.
Why?
Because the previous names immediately suggested that these were paid tiers. In fact, there are currently no plans to monetise either of them. The “plans” simply describe different sets of features, because I don’t want to force unnecessary form fields on users who just want to collect.
And that is far from the only change: I’ve also reworked the structure of the detail pages, with a steady stream of further quality-of-life improvements alongside it. Plasticfolk is not a finished or frozen product. The app is permanently in motion, keeps evolving, and becomes clearer and more pleasant to use with every iteration.
Thanks for the feedback, Mats!
Oh, and you can now follow other users, too! I’ve also fixed a bug affecting updates to the collection value. For more details, take a look at the changelog: https://plasticfolk.app/changelog
Guys, the Closed Beta is starting – and I am insanely excited. This whole project originally started as a small browser extension to enhance my Brickset account, and now it has actually become its own platform!
Over the last few days, I've spent so much time tweaking the interface, adding, and removing features to build the best app possible, and by now I’m so code-blind that I can’t even tell what’s good and what’s not anymore.
That's why: I am relying on your feedback! Don't like something? Drop me a message! Missing a feature? Drop me a message! Confused by something? Drop me a message! Bored? Drop me a message! (Not that I have to reply to that one ... 😅)
Break things - and write how you did that!
Btw. if you feel limited and you're missing something, you can switch from Standard to a Pro Account and unlock a lot of features. (For free, I dont really have a monetarization concept at hand :D )
You probably have me on WhatsApp, but an email to moin@flore.nz or a message on Mastodon works too.
What's next:
Want to get an app feel right now? Android users can install this app, iOS users can add it as a bookmark. Both will create a shortcut on your home screen. Your life will improve (maybe).
Have fun playing around with it! And seriously ... your feedback matters a lot!
If you can read this, the newssystem is working. Picture unrelated. Have a nice day! 😅
Same app, same collection, new name — shorter, more our own, and it finally fits everything that has gone into this.
Your figures, your prices and the addresses of your published collections all stay exactly where they are. The browser extension keeps working, with nothing for you to do.
One small thing: if you keep the app on your home screen, install it once more. Then the new name shows up there too.
Hold the camera over a table full of collectible minifigure boxes — each one instantly wears the figure that is inside it. A green ring means you are still missing that one.
Nothing to open, nothing to guess. From series 25 on, every box carries a small code, and the scanner just reads it. What it finds collects underneath as a list; it only joins your collection when you press ＋.
A photo works the same way: one picture of six upturned boxes, six hits at once.
Only the older bags up to series 24 stay a manual job — they carry embossed dots instead of a code, and no camera can see those.
Sets are gone from the app. That sounds like less and it is more: everything here now revolves around what you actually collect.
Half-finished set features never helped anybody — prices, conditions and statistics were built around figures from the start. Rather than doing two things halfway, the app does one properly.
Along the way, orders now count the condition of your figures, and the imprint and privacy notice finally sit where you would look for them.
Every theme now has an open page, and you can release lists of your own. One at a time, and back again whenever you like.
Anyone dropping by without an account can tick off what they own. If they sign up later, the ticks are already there — nothing is lost. A released list lives under your name, and you decide list by list, never all at once.
There are also three charts for every figure: how its value is moving, how far the prices spread, and how it has done from one auction to the next.
Every figure a card, and the app works out for itself how rare each one is. The one view that is allowed to be loud on purpose.
You will find the deck with your figures, beside gallery, list and compact. Fair warning: it is easy to lose an evening in there.
The app remembers the spare parts you have ordered — and books them in against the right figure as soon as they arrive.
Sorted by figure, so unpacking needs one list and no cross-referencing. Sold figures drop out on their own.
And when something really is damaged, you can say exactly what. A cracked torso then stops the figure passing as “like new” — however you tick it.
Fully translated — not just the menus, but every editor, every table and every message.
You switch in the settings. The app remembers it for your account, so the next time you open it you are already in your language — on every device.
