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@Velocio
Yeah, that's planned.
The taxonomy for it is doing my head in though which is why I've avoided trying to explain it.
At the top level you've got "Stuff I own" and at the bottom level you have "Components (and their specs)" and "Accessories".
But WTF is the thing between? Bikes, cameras, audio equipment, watches?
Most (not all) of this stuff can also be made from other stuff.
i.e. you might say that you own this bike, and this wheelset... but the bike is composed of components including the wheelset, just as a camera is the system that includes both camera body and lens.
And then, some components are made of components. A wheel, made of spokes, hub, rim, etc.
So in my mind I have a collection of stuff I own, and this collection of things is composed of lesser parts which may also be composed of lesser parts (ad infinitum).
But putting that into consistent and widely understood language is hard.
There's loads of advantages to this though:
1) Product/component reviews
2) Provenance of items over time (even helps anti-theft and insurance claims)
3) Auto-create sales adverts from the owner details
4) Galleries associated to products/components
5) Improved search ("find me other bikes that use these cranks")
Lots of advantages... very hard concept to communicate.
It's on the list, but behind a lot of core functionality