The Ahoolee ICO will commence on August 28, 2017. Ahoolee describes their project in their whitepaper as,
“Ahoolee is the world’s first search engine dedicated to online shopping worldwide. Ahoolee uses a decentralized platform for open collecting and indexing information from open sources with confirmation of authenticity based on blockchain technology.”
Ahoolee’s goal is to be the first search engine dedicated to helping the person searching for a product to be able to compare the price of the item on hundreds of web sites to enable them to get the best deal available.
The Issue With the Current Options Available
The original way that a purchaser would search for a product was through search engines like Google and Yandex. The results would be a link to the page where the product could be found. The purchaser would have to view dozens of pages in order to compare prices on their own and determine which offer is best for them. With this option the research is tedious. There is no one place to search for an item and find all relevant stores that offer the item that is being looked for and comparing the prices.
The solution to this problem was attempted by the advent of online marketplaces like Google Shopping, Yandex Market and those built by large retailers like Amazon and Ebay. Ahoolee describes the shortcomings of this system.
- Uploading data of products to marketplace
- Meeting requirements of data of marketplace
- Paying fees to the marketplace
- Differences in price between the website and the marketplace
- Matching the existing details of the products on the marketplace
The final issue is that not all stores are synched to the marketplaces and therefore the marketplace can not give you a true comparison of prices for the product you are looking for in one place.
Ahoolee ICO – Bringing Ahoolee’s Solution to the Consumer
Ahoolee has been designed to combine the advantages of the search engine and the marketplace. They have created what they say is the first true place to find a product and compare the price options from various sources in one place. Ahoolee describes their mission in the whitepaper as,
“The mission of our project is to enable any person to find any product on the Web, see ALL the shops where it can be purchased, and compare them by price.
We are for the full openness of information and we believe that information about stores, their prices and price changes should be open. However, we cannot trust any commercial company because it has its own commercial interests, so we store all the data on all the price changes in all online stores in the world in a decentralized way using the Ahoolee blockchain.”
The Ahoolee Platform
The Ahoolee platform is enabled by three main blocks: Parsing, Matching and Search.
Parsing
In order to collect information from the various stores, Ahoolee uses a decentralized parsing method based on their own blockchain. The main objectives are to keep the product prices up to date and to collect as much details about the products as possible.
Matching
Ahoolee uses machine learning algorithms to process the information parsed from the different stores and combine them into a single product card. This enables complete information regarding specific products.
Search
“At the moment, the engine of the Ahoolee search engine is based on Elasticsearch, as well as some heuristic techniques designed to improve the quality of search results. As more and more statistical data will be accumulated from users’ search requests, we plan to rank search results using machine learning methods, such as gradient boosting and neural networks.” (from whitepaper)
At the moment of the printing of the whitepaper, Ahoolee’s database contained more than 40 million SKUs and the number grows daily. The system also contains the history of store’s price changes, which can be helpful to see if a store raised its prices before putting something on sale. The user can also see a complete history of his purchases from all stores in one place.
The Mechanism of Ahoolee Tokens (AHT)
Ahoolee tokens (AHT) are issued on the basis of Ahoolee’s blockchain as an Ethereum fork.
Ahoolee Tokens can be purchased through their internal exchange with various cryptocurrencies and FIATs as well.
The tokens are used for:
- Purchasing goods from any of the stores represented in the database with additional discounts
- The miners that Parse the product cards are paid in AHT
- Ahoolee pays the assessors for the manual training of machine learning algorithms for product matching in AHT.
Ahoolee ICO Structure
Ahoolee has structured its crowdsale in three different rounds, the Pre-Sale, Seed Round and Official ICO. The total number of Ahoolee tokens to be issued is 100 million. 70 million will be available during the crowdsale process. 20 million are set in the Reserve Fund for miners and assessors and 10 million will be kept by the company.
Pre-Sale (July 2017)
Ahoolee launched a Pre-Sale during July and raised its cap by selling 10 million AHT at a price of $0.02 in 30 minutes.
Ahoolee ICO Seed Round
ICO Opens: August 28, 2017
ICO Closes: September 11, 2017
Tokens Available: 25 million
Soft-Cap: $1,000,000
Target Cap: $3,750,000
Hard Cap: $10,000,000
Price: AHT sliding from as low ast $.04 per AHT to $.15 per AHT
Ahoolee ICO
Date: April, 2018
Tokens Available: 30,000,000
Hard Cap: $50,000,000|
Price: AHT = $1.66
Resources
Ahoolee Website: http://ahoolee.io/
Ahoolee Whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8GOnrPq_i-SGk5a1Jxbld2TGs/view
Social Resources
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ahooleeman
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ahoolee-1782764428629699/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ahoolee/
Telegram: https://t.me/ahooleecommunityeng