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SellIt

The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.

Event year2010

01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

SellIt was a Cartfly service for operating online storefronts through partner platforms.

02 / SellIt FAILURE REASONS

Failure reasons

Cartfly said changes to partners’ APIs would prevent most SellIt users from using their accounts unless the company undertook substantial development work. It chose to redirect its efforts and discontinued the service.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

  1. Service discontinued

    By November 2010 Cartfly had discontinued SellIt and informed users of the partner-platform changes.

04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT

Difficulty of rebuilding this project today

Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.

Rebuild difficultyPending assessmentNot completed
Scoring basisNot completed
ScalabilityPending assessmentNot completed
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Overall assessment: Not completed

05 / CAUSAL CHAIN

How the factors connect

  1. 01

    Partner APIs changed

  2. 02

    Continuity required substantial redevelopment

  3. 03

    Team redirected its efforts

  4. 04

    SellIt discontinued