I co-own Offside Boys, a vintage football shirt shop in Toronto. I built Vaulted because I needed it myself.
If you collect vintage shirts, you already know the problems. You find a shirt and you're not sure what season it's from, or whether the badge and sponsor are right for the year. You want to know what it's worth, and the only way is to dig through old listings and hope you're comparing like for like. You build a collection over years, and it lives in your head, a spreadsheet, or a thousand photos on your phone. And every so often you're holding a shirt you're not certain is real, with no easy way to get a second opinion.
I ran into all of this, both as a dealer at Offside Boys and as a collector myself. The tools I wanted didn't exist. So I started building them.
What Vaulted is
Vaulted is a catalogue, a collection manager, and a price tracker for vintage football shirts, in one place.
You can search or scan a shirt to identify it. You can see what it's worth and how that value has moved over time. You can keep your whole collection in your Vault, with photos and notes. And you can get a second opinion from our team on whether a shirt looks right before you commit to it.
It's the tool I wanted as a collector, built for collectors.
How we build it
A few things matter to me in how this works.
We're honest about what we know. Our authenticity assessments are a careful, human second opinion, not a guarantee, and when we're not sure, we say so. Prices and sale dates are estimated from market activity, and we tell you that plainly instead of dressing up an estimate as a fact. I'd rather be useful and honest than confident and wrong.
We don't sell your data or track you around the internet. Your collection is yours. It stays private unless you choose to share it, and we don't build advertising profiles or hand your information to anyone. That isn't a launch-day promise we quietly walk back later. It's a line we won't cross.
About Offside Boys
Since I lead with it, let me be straight about it. I co-own Offside Boys, and I'm building Vaulted. They're separate businesses, and Vaulted doesn't play favourites. Offside Boys gets no special treatment in the catalogue or the data, and Vaulted never shares your information with the shop. Vaulted only works if it's useful to every collector, not if it's a funnel to one store. If it ever felt like the latter, I'd have built the wrong thing.
Football first, more sports later
Vaulted launches with football shirts because that's what I know best. But the idea is bigger than football. Vintage sports collecting deserves proper tools across the board, and we'll add more sports over time, with the same care we're putting into this.
We're early, and that's the point
The collectors who join now will shape what Vaulted becomes. If you find something broken, something missing, or you just want to tell me what you'd want from a tool like this, I'd genuinely like to hear it. You can reach us any time at hello@vaulted.live.
Thanks for being here early.
Jin, Sanghwa & YenFounding Team, Vaulted