QuickHaggle
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
QuickHaggle, founded by Bilal Ahmad, was an online barter community where users could exchange skills and services instead of cash - for example, a PHP developer trading development work for internet marketing. Users posted offers and haggled over terms, with the community built around the idea that skills, unlike money, can't be lost or stolen.
02 / QuickHaggle FAILURE REASONS
Why it failed
Like the ancient barter system it emulated, QuickHaggle ran into the 'double coincidence of wants' problem: it was extremely hard to find someone who both needed your service and could offer what you needed. After about a year of work, founder Bilal Ahmad shut it down - it never grew into a big user base.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded (record)
Record lists founded year 2018; founder Bilal Ahmad described working on QuickHaggle for about a year.
- Event (record)
The record marks a 2021 event; the founder's interview describes the shutdown after failing to build a big user base.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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