What's next for FirstFinder.

Grading company, grade, and cert number fields for graded cards and comics, with a direct link out to the grader's public cert-verification page.

Grade the book and its dust jacket separately (e.g. VG/VG, NF/VG+), matching how booksellers actually describe first editions — the jacket wears differently and often carries most of the value.

Structured or freeform storage locations — Home → Office → Bookcase B → Shelf 3 — so a growing collection stays findable, not just catalogued.

Turn source, receipts, and notes into a structured ownership history — signed by the author, acquired by a previous owner, listed by a dealer — instead of separate, unlinked fields.

Score how defensible each record is for an insurance or estate claim — photos, receipt, purchase price, condition — and flag what's still missing.

Connect related records — a dust jacket to its book, a volume to its set, a bookplate to its copy — instead of treating every item independently.

Track a professional appraisal separately from the self-entered estimate, with a reminder to refresh it every three to five years the way insurers expect.

Free-form tags and custom fields so collectors can organize by press, binding, series, or "needs upgrading" — the flexibility spreadsheets have that a fixed schema doesn't.

Accept those services' own export formats directly, since the real barrier to switching is the hundreds of items already catalogued somewhere else.

List an item for sale on eBay straight from its FirstFinder record — the next tier up from today's AbeBooks/eBay search links.

What you paid and what you sold for are already tracked, so a value trend line is mostly a visualization problem once there's enough history per item.