About Hoarden
Hoarden is a collector-run reference catalog for League of Legends and Arcane collectibles — figures, statues, plushes, and prints. The goal is variant-granular accuracy: not just “the Jinx figure” but every production run, region, retailer, and edition tracked separately, with sold-price history segmented by region and condition. Built solo and part-time from Sweden.
Who runs Hoarden
FOUNDER: replace this paragraph. Two or three sentences on who you are, how long you've been collecting LoL pieces, and what your day-job background is. The collector-credibility signal here matters for E-E-A-T; the day-job signal matters for the "is this a real operation" trust check that premium-statue buyers run.
Worlds 2025 — Paris/Chengdu
FOUNDER: replace. The Worlds 2025 attendance is real provenance for the catalog — attendee-exclusive items, photos from the venue, conversations with other collectors and merch vendors. This section is the strongest E-E-A-T signal on the site for premium-statue queries and is the canonical place to link photos / event coverage / specific items you photographed that ended up in the catalog. Two to four paragraphs is enough. Reference specific items in the catalog using inline links — e.g./items for now; promote to specific item slugs once the seeder has indexed the Worlds 2025 attendee batch.
Why Hoarden exists
The existing collectibles-reference sites (MyFigureCollection, hobbyDB, Statue Forum) treat release rows as storage-only metadata — the “Tmall 2024 Gift Box” release of the Yuumi Crystal Figure shares one entry with the 2023 China Flagship Store release, even though the two trade at materially different prices on the secondary market. Hoarden treats each release row as a first-class trackable variant with production run, regional SKU, retailer, and edition number all tracked separately. The variant-granular catalog is the catalog wedge.
The second piece is a premium-statue price guide for the €200-€2,000 tier (Jimei Palace, Infinity Studio, PureArts, Hot Toys, Apex Innovation). No incumbent aggregates sold-comp data for this niche in either English- or Chinese-language ecosystems. StatueHQ tried in 2013 and failed because solo manual data entry doesn't scale — Hoarden's sold-listing ingestion pipeline closes that failure mode structurally.
What you can expect from Hoarden
The catalog and reference tools stay free. The shop side (Phase 2) operates under the Hoarden Buyer Promise — tracking within 24 hours, pre-shipment photos on items over €100, full refund on damage within 30 days, and CS replies within 24 hours from the founder personally.
Contact
FOUNDER: replace with your direct email and any other channels you actively monitor (Reddit handle, Discord username, X/Twitter if applicable). Founder-signed contact is part of the trust signal — anonymous “contact us” forms hurt the brand-as-offer positioning.