Hackathon of “Digikala” sellers’ problems started today (11 September 2024). In this hackathon, 24 participating teams are supposed to improve the experience of Digikala sellers by identifying their problems.
According to Iran digital economy annotation, Masoud Tabatabai, the CEO of Digikala, said at the opening ceremony of this hackathon organized by Diginext, “Since I started working at Digikala in February 2022, I realized that we owe a lot to the sellers. We had a meeting with the sellers for two or three months, but we did not reach any results. Finally, together with the technical team of Digikala and Diginext, we came to the conclusion that teams from outside Digikala can create value for our sellers.”
Digikala’s CEO continued: “After that, the development of Digikala’s APIs followed at a faster pace. I believe that our competitors come from student dormitories, universities and houses where several students are gathered together. We create a platform where these are partners instead of competitors.”
At the opening of this event, “Keyvan Mohitmafi”, the CEO of Diginext, also said: “Organizations always use their own internal teams, such as the research and development department, for innovation. This method is costly and the teams cannot grow too big. Some organizations also outsource the project, which is hard to trust in these cases. Meanwhile, there is a third way; It means crowdsourcing, the same thing that Digikala does in the store sector.”
Addressing the participants in this hackathon, Mohitmafi added: “Diginext hackathon is also held with the same purpose. Note that this is a competition, and regardless of the judges’ opinion, you must win the opinion of Digikala sellers.
Hamidreza Soleymani, vice president of Digikala technology, also said: “Just as Digikala’s transformation into Marketpolis made it multiply, this kind of event also allows everyone to write code.” We are not going to just hack, we have to solve the problem and turn it into a startup. This problem solving helps us make money, create products and make people’s lives easier.”
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