WaxSnap · 2026 · Founder / Product Design / Brand / Go-to-Market
The Shazam of album art. I conceived, designed, built, and launched WaxSnap, a consumer iOS app that identifies a record from a photo of its cover, prices it from real marketplace data, and turns a collection into crates, playlists, and a shareable Art Wall. Live on the App Store since October 2026.
Shazam made naming a song effortless. WaxSnap brings that moment to the record bin. It starts with the one thing every record has, its cover: point the camera at it and in seconds you know the artist, album, year, label, and what your copy is worth. The barcode comes second, to pin down the exact pressing once the record is in your collection.
Identification is only the first beat. Every record lands in a collection that tracks condition and estimated value from Discogs marketplace data, and every price names the pressing it came from. The match is confirmed before anything is saved, so the collection stays accurate.
Then the collection becomes something to play and show. Thirty-second previews play for everyone with no account needed. A public profile puts your top four records on a shelf, any crate becomes an Apple Music playlist, and the Art Wall turns every cover you own into one image built for Instagram Stories. A wishlist remembers what you already have, so you stop buying doubles.
One promise, three words: Snap. Collect. Curate. The brand is a product decision as much as a visual one: fast, dark, and quiet, with no ads, no trackers, and no algorithm. Sign in with Apple or Google to sync across devices, or use it with no account at all.
I built WaxSnap solo with Claude Code and Pencil.dev, from the first interface sketch through a TestFlight beta to the App Store. Ten days after launch, version 1.0.2 shipped playlist adds from any cover, wood-grain profile crates, a dated Art Wall story card, and prices that link to the exact Discogs pressing behind them.
WaxSnap is free to start. The first seven snaps and a twenty-record collection cost nothing, and Premium unlocks unlimited snaps and an unlimited collection on monthly, annual, or lifetime plans. The launch site walks a new user through five steps in the order a collector lives them, demoed on A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders, and spotlights record shops where we snap, from Zaharias Records in Athens to Radiation Records in Rome.
I wrote and designed the App Store listing. Each screen sells one feature with a headline and a single supporting line.
Identify
Any cover. Artist, album and year in seconds.
Trust
The artwork is checked before WaxSnap answers.
Value
Real market prices for your copy, from Good to Mint.
Wishlist
A wishlist that knows what you already own.
