In this episode of The Collector’s Compass, Alyx sits down with Phillip Tadros, founder of HobbyScan (@HobbyScan)—a platform built to help collectors identify, value, organize, and list cards to eBay from a single workflow.

As the hobby becomes faster, more digital, and increasingly complex, collectors are managing more cards, more data, and more decisions than ever before. HobbyScan was built to solve a simple but growing problem: how do we remove the friction from collecting without losing the joy that brought us into the hobby in the first place?

Phillip shares the story behind building HobbyScan, the challenges collectors face when trying to track and manage their collections, and how technology can actually make the hobby simpler, clearer, and more intentional rather than more overwhelming.

The conversation also ex ...