2007 – 2008 · Remote
QuiTroc — online bartering platform
Entrepreneuriat personnel — Web projects run independently from 2005 to 2011, and the first sites delivered to clients.
A substantial project run over thirteen months: an online bartering platform built on the model of the marketplaces of the day, but without money — goods are exchanged at equivalent value.
The heart of the problem is the relational model: item categories, user accounts, management of personal details, listings written in BBCode, a search engine, and an internal currency used to establish equivalence between the goods offered and the goods sought.
All of these features were built and tested. The project was never made public, functional pieces remaining missing. It stands as the longest learning ground of the period: thirteen months of hands-on practice on a problem whose complexity was precisely what made it instructive.
Achievements
- 13
Internal currency for equivalence
A valuation system for establishing equivalence between the goods offered and the goods sought: the functional heart of a marketplace without money.
Hosting and administration
Site hosted on OVH and administered directly, beyond the development itself.
Bartering platform built and tested
User accounts, item categories, management of personal details, listings written in BBCode, search engine.