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My wife recently fell in love with antiques: finding pieces, fixing them up and reselling them. One evening she came home with a find and asked if I could help. "Of course," I said, knowing full well I didn't have the time.
"You'll just need to take a picture, figure out what it's worth, write a short description and post it on Facebook," she said.
"Is that all?" I asked. She nodded.
When I asked how she was pricing things, she showed me an app she'd downloaded. Fair enough, I agreed. The next day she brought home five pieces.
Each one took me 20 to 30 minutes: photos, price research, writing the listing, posting it. Somewhere around the third piece I had an idea. What if one app did all of it? Snap the photo, get the price, stage the piece in the room of your choice, write the description and send it straight to Facebook Marketplace.
It took a couple of days to build, and then I published it on the App Store as The Antique Collective. Now each piece takes five minutes, tops.
I just hope she doesn't see that as a reason to buy more.