# Rate Your Mates Create Trading Cards of Your Friends By Cowbag | Published 2007-05-06 | Unique Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/make-your-own-top-trumps-rate-your-mates References: [myspace](http://www.myspace.com/emmathecow) & [top-mates](http://www.top-mates.co.uk) Hot off the back of Make Your Own Monopoly I discovered this Top Trumps site. Sorry Top Mates! Its simplicity at its very best - turn photo's of your friends/family/pets into unique packs of playing cards. Decide which ratings to use, customisable categories and rock on. You can also make a [free sample online](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/badge-my-app) very easily and e-mail it to your friends. The only thing you need are [photo's in a digital format](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/myphotossite) - they do everything else for you and hey presto a pack of very cool top trump cards tips up! Warning the free generator is addictive! ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 4.3/10 - Popularity: 74% | Activity: 46% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 70% men, 30% women - Primary generations: Millennial - Top markets: North America, Europe ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Unique](https://www.trendhunter.com/unique) > [Inventions](https://www.trendhunter.com/inventions) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Customizable Trading Cards:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a platform that allows users to easily create and customize their own trading cards using digital photos. - **Personalized Social Games:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create a social gaming platform that incorporates personalized playing cards featuring friends, family, or pets. - **Digital Photo Memorabilia:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Build a service that transforms digital photos into unique and tangible products like customized playing cards. ### Who This Affects Most - **Print-on-demand:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Establish a print-on-demand company specializing in creating customized playing cards from customers' digital photos. - **Social Networking:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a feature within a social networking platform that allows users to create and share personalized trading cards. - **E-commerce:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Launch an e-commerce store focusing on selling personalized playing cards as a unique and memorable gift option. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Custom Photo Puzzles](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/custom-photo-puzzles.md) - [Collaborative Digital Cards](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/group-card-creator.md) - [Personalized Card Creators](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/moimoi.md) - [Caricature Creation Tools](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/photo-to-caricature-pictures.md) - [Convenient Online Greeting Cards](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/happy-tree-cards.md) - [Interactive Prank Tools](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/scratch-reveal.md) - [Digital Card Creators](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/businesscardgen.md) - [Couple's Card Games](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ours-cards.md) - [Card-Comic Book Generators](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/marvel-snap-1.md)