Endless negotiations, spams, frauds, unsafe payments etc. take away the confidence to sell directly, which leads to unused products and inventory kept idle. Instead of letting items sit unused or waiting endlessly for buyers, ZiHERO lets users not just sell but Swap items directly without spending money. The biggest difference is the swap layer; you don’t always need cash to get products. We’re also building this for a generation that thinks differently about money.
We had been trying to sell used and unused items on existing marketplaces. Most of the times we left the app because of unreasonable negotiations and scams. Good quality products were getting piled up so we had to just give them away. People don't mind buying pre owned items but the issue is; how reliable are the platforms, what about fake profiles, endless and baseless negotiations, and payment scams.
I had at multiple occasions exchanged my clothes with cousins & friends. It was a win win for both since we had got bored of them but they were in great condition so we could not discard them. Considering it a great way to get value out of things even once they are gone, we tried doing it more often with relatives and friends. Our teenage family members disclosed that they had been doing it since long. That's it! We tried it with few random users ( known to us). Few of them were reluctant at first and few grabbed the opportunity. We tried an MVP with the help of a cousin who is a software engineer and, who himself was struggling with constant bills and payments to acquire simple things that were not worth the price he was paying for. That is how ZiHERO was born. We tested with initial 100 users. Mostly, users between 18 - 30 showed interest. That's when we realized which market do we need to target.
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About ZiHERO on Product Hunt
“Where Gen Z Buys, Sells & Swaps. ”
ZiHERO was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #88 on the daily leaderboard. Endless negotiations, spams, frauds, unsafe payments etc. take away the confidence to sell directly, which leads to unused products and inventory kept idle. Instead of letting items sit unused or waiting endlessly for buyers, ZiHERO lets users not just sell but Swap items directly without spending money. The biggest difference is the swap layer; you don’t always need cash to get products. We’re also building this for a generation that thinks differently about money.
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