What is Carnexi? The name Carnexi derives from the Latin word connexi, which means to be connected. Carnexi is the latest, refreshed avenue of buying or selling a car, where users are connected. How was Carnexi founded? During my time at university, I was very much interested in buying a car. However, the concept of “window shopping” didn’t really exist. Every platform required the user to enter a car manufacturer, model, location, price etc. And this was frustrating as my budget wasn’t very large. I was simply trying to shop within my budget, and see what was available. However, I felt I was demanded to know what car I wanted to buy, with other services. Furthermore, the process of searching for a car felt mundane, tiring and repetitive. At the same time, I noticed the ever-growing popularity of social media, especially with regards to businesses. Users, now had the ability to directly interact with a given businesses, on various social platforms, which is very limited when looking to buy a car. There is no casual means of contacting a seller about a car unless you e-mail or speak on the phone. However, these means have a few caveats; phone lines may be engaged, may take 1-3 business days for a reply. And from a business perspective, answering the same questions could be viewed as not being efficient with time. However, that wasn’t enough to launch Carnexi. I conducted further research to understand what are people’s thoughts and opinions on services that allows for buying and selling cars. I took into account the good and the bad. More so the bad, and a common theme was the fees. Users felt services would charge them an unfair amount to either sell or list their car. Some users also felt that the services, at that current time, we’re out-dated. I was teaching myself iOS development alongside university, and I wanted to create an app/service that would combat these issues. What makes Carnexi different? Unlike other services, where individuals or businesses can buy or sell a car, we’ve heavily focused on modernising the process. We’ve adopted the concept of social media but still kept true to the traditions that entail buying or selling cars. Who is the target audience? Anyone looking to buy or sell their car. What does Carnexi offer? We took into account the criticism of other services, and tried to combat these issues, as well as adding features that we think helps with the process of buying and selling a car. • Social – We’ve incorporated social media into our app. Users can follow other accounts that interest them. As a result, a user’s home-feed would be populated with listings from the followed accounts. This allows for users to keep up to date with new listings without having to go to the extent of searching themselves. And this in return helps sellers, allowing their listings to be viewed by fellow users that are genuinely interested in their products. We’ve also allowed for commenting, which is another avenue of interaction, where questions or enquiries can be answered in a casual manner, thus allowing for businesses to avoid answering the same questions. We still allow for users to e-mail and call a seller. • Searching- Hashtags. They are utilised on most, if not all, platforms. And we’ve done the same. Sellers can hashtag their listings i.e. #AMG, #Sports et al. Hashtags can make finding a car much easier and make a listing more discoverable, in return the inclusion of this feature helps both the sellers and buyers. Carnexi also allows for “casual search” where users can search for a car via manufacturer, model, location, max price and with the aforementioned hashtags feature. • Pricing – We’ve seen the complaints of people that wish to sell their car. Some services charge you a fee for listing, others charge you a sell on fee of the final price. The complaints aren’t based on the fact there’s a charge, rather the fact the amount they are getting charged and there’s no room for flexibility. We did some research and realised that not everyone can afford such fees as we are aware there are there are individuals that don’t have a large surplus of money, after obligated/necessary expenditure. Hence why we adopted a “Pay as You Go” price plan, where the user decides how much they wish to pay. Price simply varies based on the content type, and we have two, videos or pictures. Our pricing starts at £2.99. Users can add up to 20 pieces of media; 3 videos, 20 images or a combination of both. • Features – We’ve added an array of features to benefit both parties. For the sellers, we allowed for adding a caption with a listing, this gives the seller a perfect opportunity to describe their listing and keeps the concept of interaction true. We also wanted to make sure the process of selling a car was easy and straight forward which is ultimately the reason why we created our very own custom built-in camera. Videos can be taken and uploaded instantly, without the use of another external platform. A listing can be made within minutes. For the individuals looking to buy a car, we incorporated a “Near You” feature that returns and shows any listing within a 15 to 20 mile radius without user input. This is achieved based on the user’s location, which is required when signing up. As a result, the user isn’t always obliged to search and further helps sellers. Listings are displayed full-view. A layout like no other. Just like shopping for an arbitrary item i.e. clothes, first we view the product then the description. And we’ve followed the same principles in design. • Dedicated – We are dedicated to further improving our app, however, our goal always has the user in mind. We want both sellers and buyers to have a positive experience, like no other, when using Carnexi. We want users, whom currently use social media, to feel as if they’ve used Carnexi before. Closing Notes We would like to mention Carnexi is only available in the UK App Store. If you have any questions or would like to know more, please comment below. Thank you.

Carnexi: Buy & Sell Cars

Discover. Interact. Buy. Sell.

Discover. Interact. Buy. Sell.