Near Mint

We build apps and digital solutions in Hong Kong.

Near Mint is a studio of four founders. We research, design, engineer and launch our own products, and build custom digital solutions for businesses and ideas of any size.

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A miniature Hong Kong street at dusk: a tenement whose glass first floor is a mint-lit design studio with people working at laptops, a green tram below and a red post box on the pavement.

Our own products

We research, design, engineer and launch our own apps. Two are live now: Bindy on iOS and Android, and Duelbee on the web.

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Bindy

Peer-to-peer Pokémon card trading app

Bindy browse screen: a feed of listings, each showing the card the trader has and the card they want, with filters for set, condition and cash.
Bindy send-offer screen: the offer is pre-filled from the listing, with a You give card graded PSA 10 and a You get section below.
  • Offer pre-filled from the listing
  • Card for card: you give, you get

Show the binder you have, find the cards you're missing, and trade card for card with collectors who care about condition.

  1. Show your binder

    Put the cards you have on show.

  2. Find the cards you're missing

    Browse listings for the cards you want.

  3. Send an offer

    Pre-filled from the listing. Just confirm, or edit it.

  4. Trade card for card

    With collectors who care about condition.

Live on iOS and Android. In English and 繁體中文.

App Store(opens in a new tab)Google Play(opens in a new tab)binderhk.com(opens in a new tab)
Duelbee app icon

Duelbee

A 1v1 voice debate game on the web

Duelbee on desktop: the headline Six minutes. One mic each. Queen Bee decides., a fox and a bear debating at podiums, a guest rank card at Rookie 1000, and the three steps of a match.
Duelbee on a phone: Ranked match and Challenge a friend buttons, with a note to log in with Google to play.

Six minutes. One mic each. Queen Bee decides.

Argue a hot take out loud against another player. Queen Bee, an AI judge, scores both sides, and your rank moves with the result.

  1. Get matched

    Ranked finds someone near your rating. A friend invite skips the queue.

  2. Argue out loud

    Opening, three rebuttals, closing.

  3. Queen Bee judges

    She scores logic, evidence, rebuttal and clarity.

Six ranks, Rookie to Legend. Every player starts at 1000. Log in with Google.

Play at duelbee.com(opens in a new tab)
A miniature Hong Kong side street at dusk with a small mint-lit card shop, two people looking at their phones outside and a Shiba Inu sitting in the doorway.

We build personalized digital solutions for businesses and ideas of any size.

We research, design, engineer and launch our own apps, Bindy and Duelbee. Tell us what you want to build.

Talk to us about a project

A studio of four founders in Hong Kong.

Near Mint is a Hong Kong company run by its four co-founders. Between us we cover product and engineering, research, business, and community, and we put all of it into our own products and into custom work for others.

About Near Mint
Meet the team
Miniature Hong Kong rooftops at dusk; on one rooftop three people work around a laptop under string lights while a fourth relaxes in a deck chair with a drink.
A miniature Hong Kong street at dusk: in a tenement's mint-lit ground-floor studio one desk sits empty between people at work, while outside a small crew on a ladder pastes a big blank mint poster onto the wall.

We're hiring: Marketing

Our one open role: market all of Near Mint's apps to people in Hong Kong.

See the Marketing role

Get in touch

Write to us about custom digital solutions, sponsorships, partnerships and press, or any questions.

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