[ANN] Ahoolee presale - first search engine for online shopping!

[cryptdizzy800]

Harvest all common info about project and team (whitepaper, landing, community opinion) and make the conclusion:

1) There is about zero transparency and same decentralization.

2) They need blockchain like a hole in thier heads. "Miners" will have to crawling and parsing goods and put in to a hole ahoolee private cluster, because they want to be monopoly owners of all harvested data. A hoolee "blockchain" will store only goods id and price.
Really dudes? Are you a national central bank or similar for that?
Perhabs the corps like DARPA and Microsoft is more open and transparent than four dodgy pre-shitcoin founders.

3) Cause of above point, theyclaimed that they will build data centers for store all data of all goods of all internet. Jesus...

4) Moreover, skill of searching technologies (based on open source library against internal core techs whales of searching) is in doubt.
Some said that stamming (algo used in that open source library) is bad for languages with complex morphology, and cause of many errors.

5) Project marketing is a FATALITY    - real achievement is make a brand that sounds obscene or shamed in both russian and english languages.
Ass-hole? A-hole?  Overgrown teenagers inspired tv series "Silicon valley" and badass corp called Hoolie.

Verdict: avoid and forget.

[Ahooleeman]

Harvest all common info about project and team (whitepaper, landing, community opinion) and make the conclusion:

1) There is about zero transparency and same decentralization.

2) They need blockchain like a hole in thier heads. "Miners" will have to crawling and parsing goods and put in to a hole ahoolee private cluster, because they want to be monopoly owners of all harvested data. A hoolee "blockchain" will store only goods id and price.
Really dudes? Are you a national central bank or similar for that?
Perhabs the corps like DARPA and Microsoft is more open and transparent than four dodgy pre-shitcoin founders.

3) Cause of above point, theyclaimed that they will build data centers for store all data of all goods of all internet. Jesus...

4) Moreover, skill of searching technologies (based on open source library against internal core techs whales of searching) is in doubt.
Some said that stamming (algo used in that open source library) is bad for languages with complex morphology, and cause of many errors.

5) Project marketing is a FATALITY    - real achievement is make a brand that sounds obscene or shamed in both russian and english languages.
Ass-hole? A-hole?  Overgrown teenagers inspired tv series "Silicon valley" and badass corp called Hoolie.

Verdict: avoid and forget.

  I like haters

1) it's only your opinion.

2) it's a commercial product. We have a commercial algorithms that can't be opensourced. You can go and ask Google, why they don't make their algorithms open sourced. Yes we store in blockchain only changes of their prices. Do you want to store all pictures of goods in blockchain? May be you'll be the first one, who'll download our blockchain in this case? We're not a central bank, we're a commercial company, that will generate revenue which increase the price of token and make profit for all investors.

3) where did we claim about data centers???

4) LOL, why you don't say exact name of ElasticSearch in English community? You try to tell us, that ElasticSearch, that we use in our basic version is bad for searching? Let's see the list of companies, who use it:
Team Foundation Server
Wikimedia
athenahealth
Adobe Systems
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Mozilla
Amadeus IT Group
Quora
Quizlet
Foursquare
Etsy
SoundCloud
GitHub
FDA
CERN
Stack Exchange
Center for Open Science
Reverb
Netflix
Pixabay
Sophos
Slurm Workload Manager
Lichess

Are you sure, that their algorithms are bad? Or it's your humble opinion?

5) our marketing is good enough, if you are here, trying to disgrace our product and not only here... Marketing is good if some people love project, some people hate it, but nobody is indifferent.

Verdict: you are hater, our marketing works and we're still waiting info about your skills in search algorithms, which allows you to tell, that ElasticSearch is a sick product.

[Ahooleeman]

Hey guys, here we go!

We start at 7 am GMT.
You can go to https://ahoolee.com/presale and see everything there.
You should accept our Terms and Conditions to see the smart contract address there. And you’ll see all process of presale on this page.

Please, don’t send any funds to smart contract before 7 am GMT, your transaction will be declined in this case.

Good luck!

[landslide]

newbie ico again? I've seen so many "first", "world best", etc in this forum that I never saw else where, what a joke.

[Ahooleeman]

newbie ico again? I've seen so many "first", "world best", etc in this forum that I never saw else where, what a joke.

It's a marketing, dude! 

[Ahooleeman]

Presale closed in 30 minutes, thanks guys!

[cryptoworldwide]

is there any social media bounty campaign?

[Ahooleeman]

is there any social media bounty campaign?

Not yet. Would be some at the next round of ICO.

[Ahooleeman]

It's funny, we found out that our tokens are already selling
There is an internal exchange for all ERC20 tokens and there is already an opportunity to buy and sell AHT: https://etherdelta.github.io/#0x8fb97dc96558199ffb549a35a231b97a19fdc912-ETH
The exchange is a bit weird, but the main functionality there is quite working. Of course we'll get to other exchanges in a few, but it is already possible to start trading!

[Ahooleeman]

Hello,

We have a lot of news.

Firstly, we thought about legal issues for a long distance and here are the thoughts that we had at this stage:

- the registration of a company in some jurisdiction and the choice of this jurisdiction is highly dependent on the goals. There can be two goals in the case of ICO:

1. company used to convert cryptocurrency to fiat.

2. company to conduct the operational activities of the project.

- in our case we choosed the second option. It is more expensive, but more transparent and we still need a global company to run the Ahoolee. Regarding this, the decision was made to postpone registration until the end of the next round of the ICO, immediately after its closure we are making a company to conduct the operational activities of the project.

Secondly, we considered a business model for the project, as planned. Actually here's what we got at the output: https://www.dropbox.com/s/onorospe2zvk0il/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%88%D0%BE%D1%82%202017-07-20%2012.57.27.png?dl=0

As you can see from the financial model, we need a minimum investment of 35M to achieve our goals and to grow further quickly.

And for dessert here is a piece of video that we shot during the presale in our office and the reaction to what was happened
As you remember, we've collected $200,000 for half an hour, and for the first 30 seconds we've got more than $ 100,000
Https://youtu.be/qna2-TRh-xA

[adsamy]

1 AHC = $0? Is this coin free for sale? How can I get it? No detailed rules?

[skaynet]

Online shopping is very helpful for people to transact. Good project.

[Ahooleeman]

1 AHC = $0? Is this coin free for sale? How can I get it? No detailed rules?

Where did you find $0???

[Ahooleeman]

So, as soon as we have finished with the calculation of the financial model, we came to the following:
1. it does not make sense to wait with the product marketing until the middle of next year.
2. it makes sense to make the context for the stores as early as possible in order to earn from those stores where we do not have a commission.
3. Due to the fact that we conduct ICO on our own, 5 million tokens are released from the reserve for partners.

As a result, we slightly changed the format of the round.

1. Soft cap = $ 1,000,000.
<$ 1,000,000
If the soft cap will not be reached, all funds sent to the smart contract will be returned to the owners.

2. Cap = $ 3,750,000
$ 1,000,000 - $ 3,750,000
If cap will not be reached, the number of tokens to sell, will be determined in accordance with how many funds will be received. The price of each token will be exactly $ 0.15 at the current exchange rate of ETH / USD

3. Hard Cap = $ 10,000,000
$ 3,750,000 - $ 10,000,000
If hard cap will not be reached, 25 million tokens will be sold and the price of each token will be formed from the amount collected and will be in the range of $ 0.15- $ 0.40
The price of token = collected funds / 25,000,000 tokens

In the case of Cap passing, at least 20% of the collected funds will go to product marketing, and the development of internal contextual advertising will be made before the end of the year. These are additional actions for which we collect a larger amount than originally planned.

Right now we see that even on an alpha version without traffic, we start earning commissions from stores that participate in affiliate programs. As a result with marketing, we will be able to show to April 2018 not only a full-fledged product on the blockchain, but also a normal revenue so that the next round could be as successful as possible.

[duongtien86]

translation Vietnamese?

program price in ICO 1,66 = 1 HAC?

[Ahooleeman]

How Amazon uses "surge pricing," just like Uber

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-surge-pricing-are-you-getting-ripped-off-small-business/

And as soon as Ahoolee would be fully launched, this case would be usefull because all sales will go to another retailer if amazon decides to cheat that way!

[Ahooleeman]

We've bought Platinum advertising at Applancer for 0.75 BTC.

So what we've got:
1. The listing here at the top: https://www.applancer.co/ico-list
2. Article with 15 insights for the project: https://www.applancer.co/blog/15-insights-on-ahoolee-ico
3. Awfull video This girl is so cute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIgLLFwiE34
4. Waiting for interview at their site as soon as I've answered their questions.

[Ahooleeman]

We plan to start advertising at icocountdown.com from the 1st of August. The price in BTC is $1000/week. We're going to pay for 4 weeks.

This price includes:
- Listing on the website http://icocountdown.com
- Promotion in Asia markets China, South Korea and Japan.
- Promotion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICOcountdown
- Promotion on various Telegrams including my own http://telegram.me/icocountdown
- Promotion of Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ICOcountdown
- Promotion in the Chinese private groups via QQ.
- ICOcountdown.com newsletter promotion.

We'll try to make a translation to Chinese, South Korean and Japanese till the 1st of August. May be somebody has a good translators? We'll be very pleased for the contact!

[Ahooleeman]

We're listed at icoalert.com
Listing is free as usual and we've discussed options for advertising.

Here is the offer:

Below is our updated promotion and pricing list:

- Direct email campaign to our list of 3200+ Registered ICO Investors ($2.5k)
- Featured listing on the ICO Alert website for 2 weeks ($2.5k)
- The ability to "sponsor" the distribution of your ICO Alert Report and have it distributed to our 3200+ investors and 75,000+ unique users for free. Note that this does not allow you to change the content of the report. ($2.5k)

If you purchase all three of these promotions, the total cost comes down to just $6k. In addition to the above, we also offer a premium promotion option:

- Featured website banner takeover for 5 days ($10k — see attached screenshot for details)

If you purchase the entire package, the total cost comes down to just $15k. We accept payment in BTC or ETH.

We decided to choose first 3 options package for $6K with featured listing for the 10 days before starting ICO and 4 days after start.

[Porfirii]

ANN Thread now available in Spanish too: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2049533