1 Product Manager
2 Developers
1 Designer
Strategy
UX & UI
Development
React Native
React
GraphQL
Sports
Fintech
6 Months
App
An investment app for global sports fans
Collectable is a sporting memorabilia marketplace and investment app that fractionalises shares in high-value items. It gives sports fans and savvy investors the chance to own a little piece of history.
Collectable came to Planes with an existing design and a clear brief: transform the WIP wireframe into a modern, user-friendly, mobile-optimised experience.
Sourcing the most valuable baseball card in the world – a Mickey Mantle valued at $2.5m – was the foundation for a phenomenal launch. With our new platform, in the first quarter alone, Collectable sold almost as many shares as comparable products managed in an entire year.
The new app also made headlines, with The Daily Mail dubbing it “the future of the [sports collectables] market”.
Sourcing the most valuable baseball card in the world – a Mickey Mantle valued at $2.5m – was the foundation for a phenomenal launch. With our new platform, in the first quarter alone, Collectable sold almost as many shares as comparable products managed in an entire year.
The new app also made headlines, with The Daily Mail dubbing it “the future of the [sports collectables] market”.
With a release date less than eight weeks away, we drastically simplified the design and development process by analysing and redesigning the initial concept.
The tight delivery schedule meant we focused on MVP (minimum viable product) prioritisation, identifying the essential features for launch. Although Collectable was based over 4,000 miles away in the US, it felt like we were working together in the same room.
Launching a new product in a heavily regulated sector, it made sense to employ existing integrations for AML, banking and SEC filing requirements. We used the time saved earlier in the project to design workflows for these systems that ensured a seamless customer journey.
Following a successful launch, we continued to work with Collectable to deliver their evolving roadmap, backed by data and aligned with the wider business goals.
Led by our original prioritisation exercise, we released a secondary market feature and helped them close a Series A.
Once Collectable were ready to take their product in-house we hired their first technical lead and helped source their team.
