Well, this is the first post for the Zistle Blog, the official blog of Zistle.com, which we hope will become the premiere online card collecting community and toolbox for card collectors everywhere. What in the heck does that mean? Well, imagine a world, where you could quickly build and update your collection online, where you can instantly find people with the cards you need to complete your set and you can browse an online card library with millions of cards. We want to be the most extensive resource of card information while providing collectors one of a kind tool to organize their sports card collection. And that is just the tip of the iceberg for what we have planned. Sound cool? We think so but we still have a lot of work to do to reach our dream.

How did we decide we wanted to build a card collecting site? Well, we recently rescued our childhood card collections from the obscurity of our parent’s basements. We immediately began sorting through our collections which not only made us reminisce about our youth and collecting cards but it also reignited our curiosity in the hobby. As we acquainted ourselves with the world of collecting, we realized we were having conversations like “wouldn’t it be cool if we could do this?” or “I wish I could find better information on this card”, etc. It didn’t take long before those conversations turned into an idea for a website and we knew we had to get to work right away.

So we have been working nights and weekends to get this site up and running. Our goal is to launch in beta on January 1, 2008. It will most likely be by invitation only so if you are interested, please let us know and we will be sure to invite you. We will be making frequent posts about our progress. Feel free to let us know if you have any ideas and keep collecting.