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With information scattered all over the internet and no central marketplace, collectors spend hours determining the items they want, tracking the values of what they have, and working out the best ways to offload items they no longer need. All without having any integrated way to record and track this information over time.

For collectors, the buying and selling experience is so scattered that even eBay, the largest player in the space, has only a 3% market share. And therein lies the opportunity!

Websites like IMDb, GitHub and Kelley Blue Book have all proven that databases are clear winners when it comes to displaying a large amount of information. Amazon was the first online database to spin that ability into a successful marketplace. Having a database at the core of an ecommerce site stops keyword and category spamming, makes it up to 50 times easier to list an item for sale and find items to buy.

 

hobbyDB builds on that Amazon model by adding the ability for collectors to document what they own and want to own (Collection Management). hobbyDB also integrates that directly into their marketplace, making it possible to list an entire collection for sale in seconds.

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