Claude builds a retro football sticker search

Ben Sinden makes YouTube videos about retro football stories as a creative hobby. Vintage stickers provide visuals for the players mentioned, but finding more than twenty players through repeated Google and eBay searches made production tedious.

He used Claude to build a local Sticker Search tool. Its inputs are player, team and season, so the search is tied to the historical version needed for the story rather than a player name alone. The interface and search logic return sticker results that can be downloaded to his working folder with one click.

Sinden also added recent-search shortcuts to repeat or refine an earlier query. The reported outcome is a working tool that removes much of the repetitive collection step and makes the hobby more enjoyable. The source does not publish an independent timing comparison, completeness test or a sample list of found players.

Claude is credited with constructing the tool. The resulting search application is not described as an autonomous agent that authors the videos or independently decides what footage to use. Sinden chooses the historical subjects and remains the creator.

The article also mentions a Manus-generated animated logo, but that separate task is not turned into another case from the same source. The useful design detail here is historical search disambiguation, saved query shortcuts and a direct handoff into the creator’s asset folder. Downloading a sticker image does not itself establish permission for every publication.

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Source: Blog · Ben Sinden