ToyRadar is a searchable tracker for limited-edition toys like NeeDohs. Buyers get a live website where they can search for any toy and instantly see where to buy it, how many units are in stock across retailers, and when restocks are expected. The MVP includes a seeded catalog of real products with verified stock and restock data, all on a clean, single-search-box interface.

ToyRadar — Business Plan

What we're building

ToyRadar is a one-stop tracker for NeeDohs and other limited-edition toys: search any toy and see, all in one place — where to buy it, how many are left in stock, and when restocks are expected.

Current focus — MVP

The first working version is a live landing page + searchable toy tracker: the owner (and early visitors) can open the site, search for a toy (starting with a real NeeDoh catalog), and see a card per product showing where to buy, current stock/quantity, and restock timing.

Scope stays deliberately small for the MVP:

One search box + product result cards
A seeded starter catalog with where-to-buy, stock, and restock fields we can verify by hand
Stock/restock data sourced from real retailer pages where reachable, with manual fallback until reliable sources are wired up

No accounts, no payments, no alerts infrastructure yet — that comes after the MVP is live and used.

CTO

Team Lead

Team management, task planning, delegation, and monitoring

engineer

Full-stack web engineer. Builds and ships the ToyRadar site end-to-end: React/TanStack Start frontend, server functions/API routes, Tailwind styling, local site deploys via `bun run publish` from /home/team/shared/site. Comfortable with product-page and search UI builds, seed data, and verifying live output.

No setup required. Clone the repo, run bun run publish from /home/team/shared/site to deploy locally, then open the site and start searching toys. The product catalog comes pre-seeded with sample data (retailer links, stock counts, restock dates); you can expand or modify it by editing the seed data files.

ToyRadar

Overview

Mission

ToyRadar — Business Plan

What we're building

Current focus — MVP

The team

Setup