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Share your record collection online, the way it looks on your shelf

Walk into a friend's flat and you drift towards the records. The sleeves say more than an hour of small talk. But there was never a good way to show your own shelf to someone who isn't in the room. So we built one: a page for your records, with your name on it.

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An example Plastic public page on a phone: a profile photo, a short bio, the tabs Wall, Collections, Albums and Wishlist, and a wall of eight record sleeves.
A record opened from the example page's wall: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories, 2013, with genre tags and the start of its 13-track tracklist.

Up top sits your wall: the records you'd play a guest first.

An example Plastic public page in a desktop browser: a profile photo and a short bio, the tabs Wall, Collections, Albums and Wishlist, and a records wall of sleeves.

Curated, not just catalogued

A collection is more than a list. Most of us already think in small groups: records for Sunday morning, records for a long drive, records lent out and never returned.

In Plastic those groups are called Collections, and each one gets its own place on your page. A visitor can browse one the way they'd flick through a section of your shelf.

Behind the wall and the Collections sits everything else: every record you own, and your whole wishlist. Vinyl, CDs and cassettes all sit together.

Tap any sleeve and the record opens. Your visitor sees the tracklist and a short story about the album, then opens it in Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal or YouTube Music. A page to browse quickly turns into a page to listen from.

A wishlist people can actually use

Birthdays and holidays come with the same question: what do you want? Your wishlist has its own link, so you can send just that, or share it as one image of covers. In Plastic, an artist's page keeps the records you want next to the ones you own.

The Wishlist tab of an example public page on a phone: 412 wishlisted, with sleeves including Blur, Nina Simone's Wild Is The Wind, Beirut's The Flying Club Cup and AIR's Moon Safari.
Gorillaz's artist page in Plastic on iPhone with the 2 wishlisted tab open: Cracker Island and Song Machine Season One, above a row headed 10 albums.

It keeps up on its own

Nobody wants to catalogue the same shelf twice. Already on Discogs? Connect it once: Plastic syncs on its own, and your page follows. Records you add in Plastic show up too, whether you scan a sleeve, scan a barcode or search for it.

Yours to shape

Show everything, or just the wall. Add a photo, a short bio and your links. Prices, condition and notes never show; those stay between you and the shelf. And when you want a break, the whole page goes private.

Make yours

It's free on iPhone and Android, and the wall holds up to 15 sleeves on every plan.

Plastic on iPhone: the Let's reserve your handle screen, with the example handle @sundayspins typed in and a Reserve button.
Plastic's Profile on iPhone with Public page selected for the example handle @sundayspins: the link myplastic.app/@sundayspins, a one-line bio, a Records wall of real sleeves and a Manage public page button.
Plastic's Public page settings on iPhone: Records wall 8 of 15, switches for All records, Sunday morning, Coloured vinyl and Signed turned on, To trade turned off, and My wishlist turned on.
The Collections tab of an example public page on a phone: four Collections, each shown as a small stack of sleeves.
  1. Open Profile in Plastic and tap Public page.
  2. Reserve your handle.
  3. Pick your wall and choose what shows: all records, each Collection, your wishlist.
  4. Share the link.