Purpose
Make the market legible.
The product combines Floatline’s discovery strengths with MarketLens’s analytical rigor. Users should be able to find an item, understand its history, inspect unusual behavior, and move through the collections and containers that give it context.
SearchCanonical item and market identities.
DiscoverRadar surfaces behavior with a stated reason.
UnderstandCharts, breadth, activity, and supply context.
VerifyFreshness, methodology, confidence, and evidence.
Boundaries
What the product is not.
- It is not a trading venue or order-entry interface.
- It does not aggregate third-party trading marketplaces as its core product.
- It does not provide buy/sell recommendations.
- It does not include gambling, case-opening, roulette, jackpot, or profit-pressure mechanics.
- It does not use urgency design to push transactions.
Independence
Clear about the source and the relationship.
Steam Market Database is conceived as an independent information product and is not affiliated with Valve Corporation or Steam. Product identity, color, language, and interaction patterns should avoid implying official status.
Product architecture
One evidence substrate, multiple ways to explore.
Steam observations
→ canonical entity and relationship graph
→ historical metrics
→ deterministic events
→ search, Radar, market context, and research pagesThe separate ItemWire concept remains the editorial/news layer. Steam Market Database stays focused on database, discovery, and analysis.