We have built an AI-first marketplace that takes the friction out of buying and selling online by automatically identifying, pricing and listing a whole stall of items in seconds.
Rarely do we want to sell individual items... it’s “I must sell some clothes“ or “I don’t use those CDs anymore” or “I’m going to slim down my collection” - outside of a car or house, it’s seldom just one thing.
Yet historically online selling has ignored this human behaviour and forced us to undertake the laborious trail that is item-by-item listing. It's such an unappealing admin job that most of the time we do not bother and those unwanted items languish in our garages, lofts and cupboards taking up space.
This problem started us thinking about Rummij long before AI came along, but it was the accelerating progress in machine vision that showed us that AI was clearly the route for taking the inconvenience out of selling stuff online.
The onerous task of individually listing items and painstakingly filling out descriptions, prices and measurements for postage would soon be solved.
So we thought, let's build an AI-first marketplace that does just that - automatically identifying, pricing and listing whole stacks of items at once, in seconds.
But this goes beyond computer vision - what if the whole experience for buyer and seller could be almost completely frictionless?
Environmentally it also bothers us that so much stuff lies dormant in people's houses, lofts and sheds; we thought - if we can somehow create a way that makes it easy to list these unwanted trinkets then just maybe we can help to prevent the manufacture of some unnecessary goods.