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BazaarLive brings live video auctions to India's $16B collectibles market

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

BazaarLive, built for the H0 Hackathon, is a live video auction platform targeting India's $16 billion collectibles market, which has 45 million sellers and 100 million potential users. The platform uses LiveKit for streaming, WebSockets for sub-500ms bidding, and AI for item descriptions and auction summaries. It charges a 10% fee on transactions and claims to be the first-mover in a market with zero competitors.

Meridian48 take
While the market opportunity is real, the claim of zero competitors may overlook existing informal channels, and the platform's success depends on overcoming trust and logistics challenges in India's fragmented collectibles space.
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