Development of the Platform for Collectors to Organize Their Collectables

Abstract

All people tend to collect various things. Some treat it as a hobby for pleasure while others yearn to find an investment value in their collections. They want to keep everything in order and they are always on the lookout for new items. The purpose of this thesis was to create a platform for collectors which would suit any collectable type and allow users to use additional features associated with estimating the price of collection. The first step was to determine the requirements and create the MVP with functionality narrowed to the needs of Tourist Stamps collectors to use the result as a case study for development of a complex platform with extended functionality, blueprint of which was aimed to create in this thesis as well. The extensive research was conducted to analyze the market and existing solutions, get to know the end-users and their needs, and compose a value proposition. The result of this work is a web platform for collectors of Tourist Stamps in Ukraine and a business model for further improvement and development of a full version of the platform.