buyiffy

Why it is paused

Price comparison looks like a software problem and is actually a data problem. Anyone can build the search box; the hard part is knowing today's price of the same item across two countries, two currencies and a hundred sellers who change it hourly.

buyiffy worked as a demo. Comparing UAE and India was a genuinely useful angle — the same product, two markets, a real gap worth knowing about before you buy. The idea is still one of the more interesting things in this list.

What it needed was sustained money for research and data acquisition, and that was not a bet worth making next to products that were already earning. The traffic it did attract was mostly bots rather than people, which told us nothing about demand either way.

So it is paused, honestly: not because it failed, but because it needed a budget we chose to point somewhere else.