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Caboosale (Create Two Eight Ltd) is a location-aware buying and selling app that utilizes the camera and location capabilities of a mobile phone – letting people buy and sell in their local area.

Some of the best features of the app are the ability to sell things locally, by quickly listing items for sale by snapping a photo, entering a price and an optional description, all with the press of a button. Users can search and browse for items in their locality, either through a search and browse screen or by looking at a map view where they can see other people’s ‘flea markets’ as pins on a map. A buyer can then contact the seller through in-app messaging. The app focuses on local sales, what makes it fun is the ability to search for bargains in your area, we all love a bargain!

Caboosale was created with parents in mind whose homes have become filled with toys and stuff that their children quickly grow out of. Giving them the opportunity to list and sell things quickly... But have the fun of a car-boot sale or flea markets experience at the same time. It also lends itself to ‘micro-businesses’, using it as a platform to sell things locally, like homemade jams and produce...

Caboosale could be a platform from which people can be entrepreneurial and create small, local businesses. As its location based it can grow organically, allowing users to connect and develop a virtual local market. Traditional auction style apps are fine for selling higher value goods, but why not exploit the location and camera capabilities of a mobile phone and have something that is targeted locally, that makes it really quick to list an item, that gets people talking to each other, that encourages community, an app that encourages ‘micro-businesses’?

CEMAS were able to bring their considerable expertise in UI design and branding, helping to produce a slick user interface. CEMAS were also able to successfully develop the iOS version of my app to a very high standard and functionality.

In turn, it gave my company, the app, a better profile for me to take to market.

Ian Williams, Founder

Caboosale

ffôn. 01443 654265 e-bost. cemas@southwales.ac.uk

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Mae Caboosale (Create Two Eight Ltd) yn ap gwerthu a phrynu sy’n ymwybodol o’r lleoliad ac sy’n defnyddio gweithrediadau camera a lleoliad ffonau symudol – gan alluogi pobl i brynu a gwerthu yn eu hardal leol.

Ymhlith rhai o nodweddion gorau’r ap mae’r gallu i werthu pethau’n lleol, gan restru’r eitemau sydd ar werth yn gyflym drwy dynnu llun a nodi pris a disgrifiad dewisol, a hyn oll drwy bwyso un botwm. Gall defnyddwyr chwilio a phori am eitemau yn eu hardal leol, naill ai drwy sgrîn chwilio a phori neu drwy edrych ar fap sy’n nodi lleoliadau gwerthwyr eraill. Wedyn, gall prynwr gysylltu â’r gwerthwr drwy anfon neges gan ddefnyddio’r ap. Mae’r ap yn canolbwyntio ar werthu eitemau’n lleol, ac mae’n hwyl chwilio am fargeinion yn eich ardal, mae pawb yn mwynhau bargen!

Crëwyd Caboosale gyda rhieni sydd â llond tŷ o hen deganau a dillad ac eitemau eu plant mewn golwg. Mae’n rhoi cyfle iddynt restru pethau a’u gwerthu’n gyflym... Ond i fwynhau hwyl sêl cist car neu farchnad ar yr un pryd. Mae hefyd yn ddefnyddiol i ‘ficrofusnesau’, sy’n gallu ei ddefnyddio fel llwyfan i werthu pethau fel jam a chynnyrch cartref yn lleol...

Gallai Caboosale fod yn llwyfan i bobl fod yn entrepreneuriaid a chreu busnesau bach, lleol. Gan ei fod yn seiliedig ar leoliad gall dyfu mewn modd organig, gan alluogi defnyddwyr i gysylltu a datblygu marchnad rithwir leol. Mae aps traddodiadol ar ffurf arwerthiant yn ddefnyddiol o ran gwerthu eitemau mwy drudfawr, ond pam na ddylem fanteisio ar weithrediadau camera a lleoliad ffonau symudol a chreu rhywbeth sydd wedi’i dargedu’n lleol, sy’n gadael i bobl restru eitemau’n gyflym, sy’n cynnal sgwrs ac yn hybu’r gymuned, ap sy’n annog ‘microfusnesau’?

Llwyddodd CEMAS i ddefnyddio ei arbenigedd helaeth ym meysydd dylunio Rhyngwyneb â Defnyddwyr a brandio, gan helpu i lunio rhyngwyneb â defnyddwyr sy’n hawdd iawn i’w ddefnyddio. Hefyd, llwyddodd CEMAS i ddatblygu fersiwn iOS o fy ap i safon a gweithrediad uchel iawn.

O ganlyniad, rhoddodd broffil gwell i’m cwmni a’r ap er mwyn ei gyflwyno i’r farchnad.

Ian Williams, Sylfaenydd

Caboosale