2. What is Barterx ?
Barterx is a new free application for iPhone and Android phones that allows you to exchange very easily things and services with geo-localization.
Barterx reinvents bartering ... it's simple, fun, efficient and sustainable !
Barter is a system of exchange by which goods or services are directly
exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of
exchange, such as money
Why Barterx ?
Barterx is the result of a vision shared by 2 individuals. The exchange of things between individuals will emerge more and more as a strong societal
trend and improve the sustainability of our consumption society, it is friendly, fun, ecological and free ...!
Barterx is open to all and meets consumer expectations of both more responsibility and more meaningful experiences. It is a universal practice, it is
rewarding, positive and emotional ...full of beautiful surprises.
Today, consumerism promotes the accumulation of things and the user gets tired easily of objects they buy, going from of a novelty to another. It is in
this context that Selim Stahl, the founder, led his thinking:
“Instead of accumulating things - both products or competences - that are not
used, it's smarter to be able to exchange them and obtain new rewarding ones
instead.”
Assuming that something can have no value for someone but still be usefull for someone else, if each other use Barterx, everyone is statisfied!
However, if many people are prepared to exchange their things with each other, very few will actually do it because the barter operations seems
complicated. Barterx has been designed so the exchanged become “super” easy and intuitive.
So go BARTERX !
3. The philosophy behind Barterx is a
fun and personalized experience
Barterx is an app for all: young people, students, adults. Everyone has always something that could be exchanged.
This innovative app has been designed so that the comfort, fun to use and coherent barter suggestions is there for each user. So, as the uses,
To increase the pleasure of navigation and discovery Barterx promotes and encourages the exchange of cool things.
good reasons to download Barterx
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1. A simple, intuitive and fun user’s experience.
2. Efficient service: the novel approach allows quick and
Nice exchanges.
3. A tailored experience: Barterx is "smart“ and will suggest items that may
suit the user’s better from circles and close interests.
4. The ability to keep in touch with users we appreciate the items we traded.
5. The reciprocity filter: when the user shows interest in an object,
the owner is not informed. It is only when there is reciprocity
that both owners are discovering at the same time the possibility of an
exchange. This creates surprise, accentuates emotions and avoid being
harassed by hundreds of proposals.
6. Very nice surprises: 100% of the exchanges on Barterx are the result
a reciprocal like! Barterx is the Tinder of things!
7. The concept of ownership is shaken: objects and services now have several
lives, the owner is the guardian of these things and competences for a period
in time before passing them to others ...welcome to the circular economy !
Cyclical factors
promote the success
of the exchange
• Ultra-connected consumer
• The emergence of collaborative consumption and new
consumption patterns
• Economic situation: bartering can help acquire novelty at no
costs
• Environmental issues: general awareness is becoming more
present and bartering allows to acquire novelty without
production. In addition transportation is often limited by local
exchanges
4. So how to use Barterx
of the thing to be
exchanged and upload
it to Barterx
Take a pic Define
the search criteria
(product, service,
geolocalisation…)
Barterx
proposes a selection
of items
corresponding to the
search criteria
Like/dislike
suggested items
When there is a match
you can chat, get in
touch and exchange
things! And why not
make new friends …
5. The Barterx team
In 2014, Selim Stahl has the idea of Barterx, he must then convince experienced profiles
and complementary competences to join the project. It is in his close family network
that he finds a teamworker which immediately adheres to the project’s philosophy !
Their association works just like Barterx, each gives his time and provides skills in
exchange for shares in the project.
Selim Stahl
+10 years experience in Project Management in the Energy sector. Currently employed at SP
Technical Research Institute of Sweden in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Founder and Project Manager
Clement Boret
+9 years experience in IT development. Currently employed at Thales Group in Toulouse,
France.
• Founder and Developer
The Barterx community is growing…join us !
The app has been tested on a number of test users for two months, which allowed to analyse in details which features had
to be improved or dropped and to validate the Barterx concept. The popularity of the application was immediate and people
were very enthusiastic about it exchanges. Barterx can really create novelty so spread the word around you!
Barterx was launched on the app store and google play in April 2015
