Building a weather app in 2025? You don't create your own meteorology department. Building a maps app? You don't launch satellites. But building a trading card app? You better prepare to manually enter data for thousands of cards and hundreds of sets. The absurdity isn't that this data doesn't exist - it's been collected, verified, and refined across countless platforms. The problem is that despite living in the API economy, trading card data remains trapped in isolated silos.