Junk Wax Hero is dedicated to democratizing access to baseball card data. While we offer premium API services for developers, businesses, and collectors, we are committed to making our core baseball card database freely available through our open-source initiative.
Our goal is to create a friendly, collaborative ecosystem where enthusiasts, developers, and data scientists can access and contribute to a growing collection of data files, machine learning models, and artificial intelligence tools centered around baseball cards.
We believe in open data and collaboration. Our entire database of baseball cards is made open source and available to everyone for free. This commitment stands at the core of our mission to democratize access to baseball card data.
The Junk Wax Era refers to a period in baseball card history, primarily in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when overproduction led to a glut of baseball cards. Despite this, the era holds significant nostalgic value for collectors and hobbyists. Our goal is to make data from this era accessible and useful for a wide range of applications.
- Comprehensive baseball card datasets
- Detailed card lists with attributes and variations
- Community-driven data enrichment
- Database Access API: Query our extensive database spanning over a century of baseball card collecting history
- AI Image Analysis: Advanced computer vision for card identification, grading, and authentication
- Collection Management: APIs to manage, track, and organize your baseball card collection
- High Performance: Scalable calls-per-second with various throughput options
- Card identification from photos
- Condition grading assistance
- Counterfeit detection
- Enterprise AI model licensing options
We welcome contributors of all skill levels! Whether you're a developer, data scientist, or simply a baseball card enthusiast, there are many ways to get involved:
- Contribute Data: Share card lists, images, or other relevant data 📁
- Develop Models: Help create machine learning models or AI tools that work with our datasets 🤖
- Build Tools: Develop apps, games, or utilities that make use of our open data 🔧
- Spread the Word: Share our mission with others who may be interested in contributing or using the data 📢
All datasets and code shared through our open-source initiative are licensed under the MIT License, ensuring that anyone can freely use, modify, and distribute the resources as long as proper attribution is given.
We believe that open data and collaboration can bring new life to baseball card collecting and analysis, inspiring innovative projects and tools. If you share our passion for baseball cards and open-source data, we'd love to have you join us on this journey.
Feel free to explore our repositories, open issues, or start contributing today! ✨