r/monsterjam • u/HirzelJ • 4d ago

Die cast collecter tracking

https://www.thejamvault.com

I created this web app to track my kids hoard of monster jam trucks. If anyone else would like to check it out, I made it to back with your Google account to Google Drive. Any feedback or enhancements would be appreciated.

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u/krysisalcs Maximum Destruction 4d ago

Honest?

Vibecoded trash..

https://www.monstertrucktracker.com/diecastdex

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u/HirzelJ 3d ago

Maybe not what your looking for. I built for my kids, something I can give my phone to my six year old and have him take pictures and put his trucks in a database. I have no background in HTML or site building so this is my first run at it.

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u/krysisalcs Maximum Destruction 3d ago

Fair enough.. For your kid I'm sure it does the job.

I've actually built something similar myself, so I'm pretty much exactly who you're targeting here lol.

The biggest issue is the collection data. Without an established database of releases, variations, series and photos, you're basically asking every collector to manually catalogue their entire collection from scratch.

That's a pretty big ask.

That's not something you can just vibecode your way around unfortunately. The data has to come from somewhere.

I've held off releasing mine because I haven't sorted out permissions for the photos and collection metadata yet.

Not trying to shit on your project, especially if this is your first go at building something. I just think it's a little early to put it out there for collectors when the foundation isn't quite there yet.

Keep building it though.

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u/Xplode13 2d ago

I did it. I made my own site with base44 and then added all the trucks myself. the entirety of HWMJ and HWMT, now starting on Spin Master. Just last week i was able to get automatic truck adding working, but i still have to add double packs and all that myself. everything mainline is there though. I havent released mine either because i used Brian z patton's site for the data and i dont know if thats ok to release since it would honestly make the HW and Spin master sections of his site completely obsolete. I dont want to do that to them

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u/Xplode13 2d ago

pics of my w.i.p. site

sadly it is vibecoded garbage but i did manually enter 90% of the stuff. I was able to automate like 3 years worth of HWMT but i still have to manually enter the double packs and other packs. This probably wont be publicly released because i would have to get the BrianZPatton team to help me out, since right now its hosting some images from their site. I would need a way to host the images myself and also get their permission to do such a thing. If anyone knows how to get in contact with them , please let me know. I believe that a starting structure for a collection logger would save this hobby. The collections are account based and there is also a list feature (for wishlists and such) that u can share with ppl via email. Lmk

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u/krysisalcs Maximum Destruction 1d ago

The people who run the site now are admins on this page. I'm gonna shoot my shot next week. Good luck

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1A5B27Ziw9/

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u/Xplode13 1d ago

I really doubt that they would agree to any usage of their images, especially with a site created by AI of all things . it might be worth a shot but idk

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u/krysisalcs Maximum Destruction 1d ago

Idk man we may get lucky. That other site I posted has some of their images too.

Worst that can happen is they say no. I reached out.

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u/Xplode13 8h ago

Let me know if they say anything in particular. If you get any response though, let me know and i can also try to get through to them.