Luis Godoy Alvarez
Sleipnir Grade
The iPhone app used at Niflheim Records to grade every second-hand record. A step-by-step wizard for cover, vinyl, inners and extras, ending in a shop-ready description.
From record to description
- 01
Walk through it
A guided pass over cover, vinyl, inners and extras: OBI, posters, booklets, box wear.
- 02
Record what you see
Ring wear, corner wear, seam splits, warps, writing on the label: toggles and short notes instead of prose.
- 03
Generate the description
One tap for a shop-ready description in Goldmine and Discogs convention, in English and optionally German or Spanish.
Why
Sample text at the intended length. Three or four sentences on how Sleipnir Grade came about: what was missing for you, what you first did by hand, and when it became clear this would turn into something. Concrete, in your own words, no marketing voice.
Why you built Sleipnir Grade. Nothing public on the site states a motive, so nothing is written here.
- How did grading work before, with notes and abbreviations?
- What was the moment copy-and-paste stopped working?
- Why an app and not a spreadsheet?
Insight
Sample text at the intended length. This is where the one thing you want to share publicly goes, technical or creative. Three or four sentences: what the problem was, how you solved it, and what surprised you. Enough substance that a peer nods, and short enough that nobody drops out.
One technical or creative insight you want to share publicly. None of it may come from the repo, only what you choose to tell.
- How do toggles and notes turn into text that sounds like a person?
- Why no account and no mandatory cloud?
- How do you follow the Goldmine convention without claiming to be it?
The app
What else is in there
Where the app stops
The app does not replace your own judgement. A record's condition is partly subjective and depends on your ears, your setup and your tolerance. The generated texts are no guarantee of condition, market value or satisfaction; responsibility for grade, price and listing stays with the seller. The app says so itself.
- Export
- Everything graded sits in a local list and exports as text, CSV, JSON or Markdown, for your own shop, Discogs, eBay or an inventory system.
- No account
- No login, no mandatory sync. Grades and notes stay locally on the device, not on a Niflheim server.
- No ads, no tracking
- The app carries neither ad SDKs nor tracking. The details are in the shop's privacy section.
- Trademarks
- Discogs and Goldmine are named descriptively only. Sleipnir Grade is affiliated with neither, as the product page states explicitly.
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