The garage sale catalog
Use with: build-website. Resume line when done: Built a live online catalog for a garage sale — {n} items photographed, priced, and updated in real time
Brief
Your family's garage sale, online: every item photographed and priced, reachable by a QR code on the yard sign, with items marked sold as the morning goes. The catalog gives buyers a reason to show up for a specific thing instead of driving past. Cash is handled at the table by your family; the page is the menu.
Personalize
- The sale. A sale your family is holding for real, on a date your parents set. If no sale is planned, propose one; the decluttering argument usually wins.
- The items. Each family member prices their own things. You photograph everything as it is, flaws in frame.
- The sold flow. How you mark an item sold from your phone while standing in the driveway. Practice it before sale day.
- Bigger items. If your parents also list furniture or electronics on a marketplace, the listing links to the catalog page for photos.
Milestones
- Catalog structure live on day one with the first ten items.
- Every item photographed, priced by its owner, and listed by mid-week.
- QR code on the yard sign tested from a stranger's distance; link added wherever the sale is advertised.
- Sale day: items marked sold in real time from a phone.
- Afterward: page switched to a sale-over state; totals counted with the family.
- Final README: what sold fast, what nobody wanted, what you would price differently.
Done means
- Live catalog with photos and prices for every item
- Honest-claims check passed: photos show items as they are, damage visible
- Sold status updated during the sale, from a phone
- All money handled by your family in cash at the sale; the page never takes payment
- If anything went on a public marketplace, the family knew the common scams before replying to buyers: overpayment refund requests, fake payment-app screenshots, courier-collection stories
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