Mission accomplished, despite no own EV industry of their own to speak of. Feels like a missed opportunity. They've been an amazing front-runner market for the likes of Tesla that should be said.
i would say their ability to build and service the charging points in a subartic region is a valuable asset and useful as a service industry to other nations.
Working on a liquidation marketplace for small retailers with stale inventory.
The hypothesis: independent shops have thousands sitting in dead stock, but liquidation is either too time-consuming (eBay listing = 20-30 min/item) or too brutal (wholesale = 10-20¢ on the dollar). A marketplace that handles cross-posting + buyer matching for ~12-15% commission could work if you avoid the physical aggregation overhead.
The interesting part is virtual aggregation - by knowing what's sitting at Shop A, B, and C, you can pool inventory into larger lots that are more attractive to bulk buyers. All goods ship seller-to-buyer directly. No receiving, no warehousing.
Main questions I'm trying to validate:
Unit economics - Is 30-40% recovery at 12-15% commission compelling enough vs. just donating it? Or is the delta too small to care?
Trust problem - Will SMEs actually hand over inventory data and logistics coordination to an unknown platform? What's the minimum viable trust signal?
Adverse selection - Is "stale inventory" just another way of saying "unsellable garbage"? How do you filter what's worth listing vs. what should just be donated?
Buyer side - Do liquidators/resellers actually care about aggregated lots, or is that just something that sounds smart but doesn't matter in practice?
Currently testing manually with a few local boutiques. The hypothesis is speed matters more than optimizing for maximum price - SMEs want cash flow, not an extra 5% after 6 months.
Has anyone here worked on inventory liquidation, reverse logistics, or similar marketplace dynamics? What am I missing?
I've been working on my own knowledge management app to help small businesses with high part-time and employee turnover to manage FAQs and centralize local expertise. I think the 3-pane with the chat in the middle is a really clean way of making a whole library knowledge repository easily accessible, especially for someone wanting to avoid minimize clicks or as you say 'tab-overwhelm'.
