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Datanyze helped popularize technographic prospecting long before “sales intelligence” became a crowded category. For many SDRs, it was the first tool that made it easy to identify the technologies a company used and turn that information into better outreach.

The market has changed considerably since then.

Today, sales teams expect much more than a Chrome extension that identifies a website’s tech stack. They want bulk prospecting, downloadable lead lists, APIs, CRM integrations, historical technology adoption, and coverage that extends well beyond a few thousand popular technologies.

To see how Datanyze compares today, I spent time testing it alongside several established competitors and newer platforms. Some focused on technographics, others approached the problem through broader sales intelligence. A few surprised me.

Here’s what I’d actually recommend.

Why People Start Looking for Datanyze Alternatives

Most people aren’t replacing Datanyze because it’s a bad product. They’re replacing it because their workflow has outgrown it.

A freelancer researching a handful of websites each day has very different requirements than a revenue operations team qualifying thousands of accounts every week.

These are the most common reasons I found people switching.

They need broader technology coverage

Modern companies use hundreds of SaaS products across marketing, engineering, analytics, customer support, payments, infrastructure, and security.

A limited technology database inevitably misses part of that stack, which means missing valuable buying signals.

For example, knowing that a prospect uses Shopify is useful. Knowing they also use Klaviyo, Recharge, Gorgias, Postscript, Nosto, Segment, and Snowflake paints a much clearer picture of their business and the tools they’re likely to adopt next.

They want prospecting, not just research

Identifying technologies on one website is helpful.

Building a list of 8,000 companies using HubSpot, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Vercel is considerably more valuable for outbound sales.

Many newer platforms have shifted their focus toward technology-based lead generation rather than individual website lookups.

Freshness matters

Technology stacks change constantly.

Companies migrate from Universal Analytics to GA4.

They move from Magento to Shopify.

They replace Intercom with Zendesk.

They adopt Cloudflare, migrate to Vercel, or switch payment providers.

If technology data isn’t updated frequently enough, sales teams end up targeting companies with outdated assumptions.

APIs have become essential

Technographic data rarely lives in isolation anymore.

Sales teams enrich Salesforce.

Marketing teams segment HubSpot audiences.

RevOps teams automate routing inside Clay, n8n, Zapier, or internal systems.

Without API access, technographic data becomes difficult to integrate into larger workflows.

Pricing becomes difficult to justify

Many companies start with a browser extension but later discover they need exports, bulk searches, APIs, and additional seats.

That’s often when they begin evaluating alternatives that offer more functionality for a similar budget.

The good news is that today’s market offers plenty of options, each optimized for different use cases rather than trying to be everything for everyone.

What I Looked For During Testing

I wasn’t interested in whichever platform claimed the biggest database.

Marketing pages often report impressive numbers, but those numbers don’t necessarily translate into better prospecting.

Instead, I focused on questions that matter during day-to-day use.

  • How accurately does it identify technologies across different industries?
  • Does it support bulk prospecting instead of single-site lookups?
  • Can I export useful lead lists?
  • Is there an API for automation?
  • How practical is it for SDRs, agencies, and RevOps teams?
  • Does the pricing make sense relative to the value provided?

Some tools excelled at enterprise intelligence.

Others were surprisingly good despite being much smaller.

And a few felt like products that haven’t evolved alongside modern outbound workflows.

1. StackScan

If I were choosing a replacement for Datanyze today, StackScan would be my first pick.

The biggest difference is philosophy.

Datanyze began as a sales intelligence platform with technographic capabilities.

StackScan is built around technology intelligence itself, then expands that into lead generation, prospecting, and automation.

That distinction becomes obvious once you move beyond looking up individual websites.

Instead of simply answering “What technology does this company use?”, StackScan makes it easy to answer questions like:

  • Which Shopify stores also use Klaviyo?
  • Which SaaS companies recently adopted OpenAI?
  • Which websites run WordPress alongside Elementor and WooCommerce?
  • Which organizations use Cloudflare but not Akamai?
  • Which companies use HubSpot without Salesforce?

Those combinations are often far more valuable than identifying a single technology in isolation.

StackScan currently tracks around 50,000 technologies across more than 100 million websites, making it practical for both individual research and large-scale prospecting.

One feature I appreciated was the ability to generate technology-based lead lists rather than manually inspecting websites one at a time.

That dramatically changes the workflow.

Instead of spending hours identifying prospects individually, sales teams can begin with a highly targeted audience based on the exact technologies they care about.

Historical technology detection is another advantage.

Technology adoption is often a buying signal.

A company that recently migrated to HubSpot, adopted Stripe, or launched on Shopify is usually undergoing operational changes, making them more receptive to complementary products.

Those signals are difficult to capture through firmographic data alone.

For technical teams, the API also opens significantly more possibilities.

Rather than exporting spreadsheets manually, technographic data can feed directly into CRMs, internal dashboards, enrichment workflows, or outbound automation systems.

Pricing is another area where StackScan stands out.

Many competing platforms reserve bulk exports, APIs, or advanced datasets for enterprise plans. StackScan offers much of that functionality at pricing that’s accessible to startups, agencies, and growing sales teams.

That makes it particularly attractive for organizations that want enterprise-grade technographic intelligence without enterprise-level pricing.

Best for:

  • B2B sales teams
  • Lead generation agencies
  • RevOps teams
  • SaaS companies
  • Market researchers
  • Anyone building technology-based prospect lists

2. BuiltWith

If StackScan is built for modern technographic prospecting, BuiltWith remains the benchmark for historical technology intelligence.

The platform has been collecting website technology data for well over a decade and has built one of the largest technology intelligence databases available. That’s why it’s still widely used by enterprise sales teams, market researchers, investment firms, and technology vendors.

Where BuiltWith shines is depth.

Instead of simply telling you that a company uses Shopify or HubSpot, it often provides historical adoption timelines, technology relationships, and detailed metadata that help explain how a company’s stack has evolved.

That historical context can be surprisingly valuable.

Imagine you’re selling a Shopify app. A merchant that migrated from Magento six months ago may still be rebuilding parts of its ecommerce stack and evaluating complementary tools. Likewise, a company that recently adopted HubSpot might also be considering integrations for customer support, analytics, or sales enablement.

BuiltWith helps uncover those kinds of transitions.

Its reporting capabilities are also among the strongest in the industry. Enterprise teams can build technology-based segments, analyze adoption trends across industries, monitor competitors, and export large datasets for internal analysis.

That said, BuiltWith shows its age in a few areas.

The interface feels geared toward analysts rather than SDRs looking to build lists quickly. New users often face a learning curve before understanding the available reports and filters. Pricing is another consideration. Many of the features that make BuiltWith attractive, including larger exports and advanced reporting, sit behind higher-tier plans that can be difficult to justify for smaller businesses.

There’s also a philosophical difference compared to newer platforms.

BuiltWith is primarily a technology intelligence platform. While sales teams use it extensively, prospecting workflows aren’t always as streamlined as tools designed specifically for outbound lead generation. You’ll often spend more time navigating reports and exporting data before reaching the same outcome.

For organizations that need extensive historical technology intelligence, however, BuiltWith remains one of the strongest options available.

What I liked

  • One of the largest historical technology databases
  • Excellent reporting and segmentation capabilities
  • Strong coverage across ecommerce, marketing, infrastructure, and analytics technologies
  • Trusted by enterprise sales, research, and investment teams
  • Reliable bulk exports for large datasets

Where it falls short

  • Premium pricing compared to many newer alternatives
  • Interface feels dated and can be overwhelming for new users
  • Better suited to analysts than day-to-day SDR workflows
  • Prospecting experience isn’t as streamlined as platforms built specifically for sales teams

BuiltWith remains an excellent choice for enterprises that prioritize historical technology intelligence and deep market analysis. If your primary goal is finding companies based on their current technology stack and turning those insights into outbound campaigns quickly, newer platforms tend to provide a more efficient workflow.

3. ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo approaches technographic data from the opposite direction of Datanyze.

Instead of starting with website technologies and expanding into sales intelligence, ZoomInfo starts with one of the largest B2B contact databases and layers technographic signals on top. For many enterprise sales organizations, that’s a compelling trade-off because contact data, organizational charts, buying intent, and technology adoption all live in the same platform.

That integration is ZoomInfo’s biggest advantage.

A typical outbound workflow might look like this:

Find companies using Snowflake, filter for organizations with 200 to 2,000 employees, identify the VP of Data Engineering and Director of Analytics, add intent signals, then push the list directly into Salesforce or a sales engagement platform.

Very few platforms can handle that entire process without additional enrichment tools.

Technographic data is only one piece of a much broader sales intelligence platform, but it’s generally strong enough for most outbound use cases. You can segment companies by CRM, marketing automation platform, cloud provider, ecommerce platform, customer support software, analytics tools, and thousands of other technologies.

Where ZoomInfo becomes especially valuable is when technology adoption is only one qualification criterion.

For example, suppose you’re selling an observability platform. You may want companies that use AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, and Snowflake, have more than 500 employees, recently hired DevOps engineers, and show intent around cloud infrastructure. ZoomInfo allows you to combine those signals into a single prospect list.

That level of data fusion is difficult for dedicated technographic providers to match.

The downside is cost.

ZoomInfo is one of the most expensive platforms in the sales intelligence market, and pricing is rarely transparent. Smaller businesses, agencies, and startups often end up paying for a large number of features they don’t actually use.

Another consideration is focus.

If your primary objective is discovering technology adoption across millions of websites, a specialist platform often provides greater flexibility, deeper technology coverage, and better value. ZoomInfo is designed to solve the broader sales intelligence problem, with technographics serving as one component of that ecosystem.

For enterprise organizations that already rely on ZoomInfo, there’s little reason to maintain a separate technographic platform unless they require significantly deeper technology intelligence.

What I liked

  • Combines contacts, company data, intent signals, and technographics in one platform
  • Excellent filtering for complex outbound prospecting
  • Strong CRM and sales engagement integrations
  • Mature enterprise workflows and automation capabilities
  • Well suited for large sales organizations

Where it falls short

  • Premium pricing puts it out of reach for many smaller teams
  • Technographic data isn’t the platform’s primary strength
  • Can feel overwhelming if you only need technology intelligence
  • Many valuable features require higher-tier plans

If your sales team needs an all-in-one revenue intelligence platform, ZoomInfo remains one of the strongest options available. If you’re specifically investing in technographic prospecting, however, a dedicated platform like StackScan or BuiltWith often delivers more specialized technology insights at a significantly lower cost.

4. Apollo.io

Apollo.io isn’t typically mentioned in conversations about technographic data, but it probably should be.

Its primary strength is B2B contact data, yet the platform includes technology filters that make it surprisingly effective for technology-based prospecting. For many startups and SMB sales teams, that’s enough to replace a dedicated technographic tool entirely.

The biggest advantage is efficiency.

Instead of switching between a technology lookup platform and a prospect database, Apollo lets you build both parts of the workflow in one place.

For example, you can search for companies that use HubSpot, Shopify, or AWS, then immediately filter by employee count, funding stage, location, hiring activity, revenue, or job title before exporting contacts.

For SDRs, that saves a significant amount of time.

Apollo also includes sequencing, email verification, outreach automation, and CRM integrations, meaning a prospect can move from search to an active sales sequence without leaving the platform.

That said, Apollo’s technology data shouldn’t be viewed as a replacement for dedicated technographic providers.

Its technology filters cover many popular products, but they aren’t as comprehensive or granular as platforms built specifically around technology detection. If your sales strategy depends on identifying niche developer tools, infrastructure products, marketing platforms, or very specific software combinations, you’ll likely encounter limitations.

This difference becomes more apparent when building highly targeted campaigns.

Suppose you’re selling a WooCommerce plugin that integrates with Cloudflare Turnstile and Klaviyo. A dedicated technographic platform can usually identify those precise combinations. Apollo is better suited to broader filters like Shopify, Salesforce, HubSpot, or AWS.

Coverage depth also varies depending on the technology category. Enterprise software is generally well represented, while smaller SaaS products and emerging developer tools may be less consistently detected.

Pricing is another reason Apollo has become popular.

Compared to enterprise sales intelligence platforms, it offers an impressive range of functionality for the cost. Many growing sales teams find that the combination of contacts, outreach, and basic technographic filtering delivers enough value without purchasing multiple specialized tools.

What I liked

  • Combines contact data, outreach, and technology filters in one platform
  • Fast workflow from prospect discovery to outreach
  • Strong value for startups and SMB sales teams
  • Good CRM integrations and automation features
  • Transparent pricing compared to many enterprise competitors

Where it falls short

  • Technology detection isn’t as deep as dedicated technographic platforms
  • Limited coverage for niche and emerging software products
  • Fewer advanced technology search combinations
  • Historical technology adoption is limited

Apollo is an excellent choice for sales teams that prioritize speed and simplicity. If your outbound strategy relies on common technologies and you want contacts and outreach built into the same platform, it’s hard to beat. But if technology intelligence is central to your prospecting strategy, a specialist platform like StackScan provides considerably more flexibility and depth.

5. Clearbit (Now HubSpot Breeze Intelligence)

Clearbit built its reputation on company enrichment rather than technographic research.

That distinction matters because it changes how you’ll use the platform.

Instead of opening Clearbit to discover which technologies a company uses, most teams rely on it to enrich leads already flowing through their CRM, forms, product signups, or outbound workflows. Technology data is simply one attribute among hundreds of company signals.

Since its acquisition by HubSpot, many of Clearbit’s capabilities have been integrated into HubSpot Breeze Intelligence, making it an even more attractive option for organizations already invested in the HubSpot ecosystem.

This is where Clearbit excels.

Imagine someone signs up for a product demo using their work email. Within seconds, the platform can enrich that record with company information such as industry, employee count, revenue estimates, location, and technology usage. That enriched profile can then trigger routing rules, lead scoring, or personalized outreach automatically.

For RevOps teams, that automation often delivers more value than manually researching prospects.

Technology data becomes one signal in a larger qualification model.

For example, a lead using Salesforce, Segment, and Snowflake might be routed directly to an enterprise account executive, while another using WordPress and Mailchimp follows a different sales path.

Where Clearbit is less compelling is standalone technographic prospecting.

You won’t find the same level of technology-first workflows offered by dedicated providers. Building large lists of companies based on precise technology combinations isn’t the platform’s primary purpose, and organizations that depend heavily on technology segmentation will usually pair HubSpot with a specialist technographic data provider.

Another consideration is ecosystem dependence.

The closer your business is to HubSpot, the more valuable Breeze Intelligence becomes. If your CRM lives elsewhere, some of its biggest advantages become less relevant.

That’s not necessarily a drawback, but it’s an important trade-off when comparing platforms.

What I liked

  • Excellent company enrichment for inbound and outbound workflows
  • Strong API and automation capabilities
  • Deep integration with HubSpot CRM
  • Technology data works well alongside hundreds of other enrichment attributes
  • Ideal for lead scoring and routing

Where it falls short

  • Not designed for large-scale technographic prospecting
  • Limited technology-first search and segmentation compared to dedicated platforms
  • Most valuable for teams already using HubSpot
  • Less suitable if technology intelligence is your primary buying criterion

If your goal is enriching CRM records and automating sales workflows, Clearbit remains one of the strongest options available, particularly within the HubSpot ecosystem. But if you’re actively searching for companies based on their technology stack, platforms like StackScan or BuiltWith offer a much more focused and capable experience.

6. Cognism

Cognism is best known for its B2B contact database, particularly among companies selling into Europe.

While many sales intelligence platforms compete on the size of their contact database, Cognism has built much of its reputation around data quality, compliance, and international coverage. That makes it a common alternative for teams that find US-centric platforms less effective when prospecting across EMEA.

Technographic data is available, but it isn’t the platform’s defining feature.

Instead, Cognism treats technology adoption as another qualification layer alongside firmographics, buyer intent, hiring signals, and verified contact information.

For example, a cybersecurity vendor targeting financial institutions could search for companies using Microsoft Azure, operating in regulated industries, with more than 500 employees, then identify CISOs and IT directors within those accounts.

That workflow is where Cognism performs well.

It combines enough technology intelligence to narrow your target market while keeping the focus on finding verified decision-makers.

One area where Cognism consistently receives positive feedback is contact verification.

For outbound teams, accurate phone numbers and email addresses often have a greater impact on campaign performance than marginal differences in technographic coverage. If your priority is booking meetings rather than conducting technology research, that’s a meaningful advantage.

The trade-off is flexibility.

Dedicated technographic platforms allow you to build highly specific technology-based segments, explore niche software adoption, and analyze technology relationships in much greater detail. Cognism is designed to help sales teams reach the right people, not necessarily become experts in a company’s technology stack.

Pricing also places it firmly in the enterprise category.

Smaller teams looking primarily for technology intelligence may find that they’re paying for a much broader sales platform than they actually need.

What I liked

  • Excellent coverage for European and international markets
  • Strong reputation for verified contact data
  • Technology filters integrate well with broader prospecting criteria
  • Good CRM and sales engagement integrations
  • Well suited for enterprise outbound teams

Where it falls short

  • Technographic data isn’t as deep as specialist providers
  • Enterprise pricing may be difficult for startups and SMBs
  • Better for contact discovery than technology research
  • Limited flexibility for advanced technology-based segmentation

Cognism is a strong choice if your sales strategy revolves around verified contacts, especially across EMEA. If your competitive advantage comes from identifying companies based on highly specific technology stacks or adoption patterns, a dedicated technographic platform will provide considerably more depth.

7. LeadIQ

At first glance, LeadIQ and Datanyze look similar. Both are popular Chrome extensions used by SDRs during prospecting.

In practice, they solve different problems.

Datanyze helps answer “What technology does this company use?” LeadIQ focuses on “Who should I contact at this company?”

That difference becomes obvious after a few hours of use.

With Datanyze, I spent more time qualifying accounts based on their technology stack. With LeadIQ, I spent more time collecting verified contacts from LinkedIn and pushing them into Salesforce or Outreach.

If your outbound strategy starts with technology adoption, for example companies using HubSpot, Shopify, or Snowflake, Datanyze gives you a stronger starting point.

If your ICP is already defined and you simply need decision-maker emails as quickly as possible, LeadIQ is the faster workflow.

Where LeadIQ falls behind Datanyze is the depth of its technology intelligence. Technology filters exist, but they aren’t detailed enough for advanced technographic prospecting or market research.

Choose LeadIQ if:

  • Your biggest bottleneck is finding contacts
  • SDR productivity matters more than technology research
  • Most prospecting happens through LinkedIn

Stick with Datanyze if:

  • Technology adoption drives account selection
  • You regularly qualify companies by software stack
  • Technographics are part of your ICP

8. Lusha

Lusha has become one of the most popular prospecting tools for small and mid-sized sales teams because it focuses on a simple promise: find accurate contact information quickly.

Like Apollo and LeadIQ, it isn’t a technographic platform first. Technology filters are available, but they’re designed to help narrow prospect lists rather than provide deep insights into a company’s software stack.

That’s an important distinction when comparing it with Datanyze.

If your workflow starts with, “I need the email address of the Head of Marketing at this company,” Lusha performs very well.

If it starts with, “Show me every ecommerce company using Klaviyo, Recharge, Gorgias, and Shopify Plus,” you’ll likely want a dedicated technographic provider instead.

Where Lusha excels is usability.

The interface is clean, prospect searches are straightforward, and the Chrome extension makes it easy to capture contacts while browsing LinkedIn or company websites. New sales reps can usually become productive within a few hours without extensive training.

For startups and SMBs, that simplicity is often more valuable than having dozens of advanced filters they’ll rarely use.

Another strength is data enrichment.

Lusha integrates with popular CRMs and sales engagement platforms, allowing teams to enrich company and contact records without adding significant complexity to their workflow.

The platform is particularly useful for organizations that already know their target accounts and simply need reliable decision-maker information to begin outreach.

Where it falls behind Datanyze alternatives focused on technographics is technology intelligence itself.

Technology coverage is relatively broad for common business software, but it lacks the depth needed for advanced segmentation. Historical technology adoption, niche SaaS detection, and detailed technology relationships are not major areas of focus.

As your outbound strategy becomes more sophisticated, those limitations become more noticeable.

What I liked

  • Simple, intuitive interface
  • Fast contact discovery with a solid Chrome extension
  • Good CRM integrations and enrichment capabilities
  • Easy for smaller sales teams to adopt
  • Transparent workflow with minimal learning curve

Where it falls short

  • Technology data is secondary to contact discovery
  • Limited advanced technographic filtering
  • Not designed for technology market research
  • Less effective for building highly targeted technology-based prospect lists

Lusha is an excellent prospecting tool when your priority is reaching the right people quickly. However, if your competitive advantage depends on identifying companies based on detailed technology adoption, specialist platforms like StackScan or BuiltWith provide significantly deeper insights and more flexible segmentation capabilities.

9. Slintel (Now Part of 6sense)

If you’ve been using Datanyze for a while, there’s a good chance you’ve come across Slintel before.

Before being acquired by 6sense, Slintel built a strong reputation around technographic data and intent-based prospecting. It was one of the few platforms that felt like a direct competitor to Datanyze rather than a general sales intelligence database.

Today, Slintel’s capabilities live inside the broader 6sense platform.

That changes the experience considerably.

Datanyze is relatively straightforward. You identify companies using certain technologies, find contacts, and start prospecting.

6sense is designed for a much larger revenue operation.

Instead of simply filtering companies by technologies, it combines technographics with buying intent, predictive analytics, account engagement, CRM data, and AI-driven recommendations. For enterprise organizations running account-based marketing programs, that additional context can be extremely valuable.

For example, imagine two companies both use Salesforce and Snowflake.

Datanyze would likely identify both as qualified prospects.

6sense goes a step further by estimating which company is actively researching products in your category, showing stronger buying signals and a higher likelihood of entering a sales cycle.

That’s information Datanyze was never intended to provide.

The trade-off is complexity.

What was once a relatively focused technographic platform has become part of an enterprise revenue platform with a much steeper learning curve. Smaller sales teams looking for a simple replacement may find themselves paying for predictive models, ABM features, and orchestration capabilities they’ll rarely use.

If your primary need is identifying companies based on their technology stack, Datanyze remains simpler and easier to adopt.

If you’re running enterprise account-based sales programs where technographics are just one input among dozens of buying signals, 6sense becomes much more compelling.

What I liked

  • Strong combination of technographics and buying intent
  • Excellent fit for enterprise ABM strategies
  • Predictive account scoring adds valuable context
  • Deep CRM and marketing automation integrations
  • More strategic than standalone technology lookup tools

Where it falls short

  • Considerably more complex than Datanyze
  • Enterprise-focused pricing
  • Overkill for smaller sales teams
  • Technology research is now part of a much larger platform rather than the primary focus

If you liked what Slintel originally offered but your organization has grown into enterprise account-based selling, 6sense is a logical evolution. For teams simply looking to replace Datanyze’s technographic capabilities, however, the additional complexity may outweigh the benefits.

10. Similarweb

At first glance, Similarweb doesn’t seem like a Datanyze alternative at all.

It’s primarily known for website traffic estimates, audience insights, referral sources, keyword research, and market intelligence. Yet I found myself using it alongside technographic tools more often than expected because it answers a different, but equally important, question.

Datanyze tells you what technologies a company uses.

Similarweb helps explain how significant that company is.

For example, suppose you identify 2,000 Shopify stores with Datanyze. Without additional context, every company looks equally valuable.

Open those same companies in Similarweb, and you’ll quickly see major differences in estimated traffic, geographic markets, audience growth, acquisition channels, and competitive positioning.

That context helps prioritize outreach.

A sales team targeting enterprise ecommerce brands may focus on high-traffic retailers investing heavily in paid acquisition. A startup selling an affordable Shopify app might instead prioritize fast-growing stores with modest traffic and lean technology stacks.

Datanyze doesn’t attempt to solve that prioritization problem, and it isn’t supposed to.

Similarweb also offers some technology information, but it shouldn’t be considered a replacement for dedicated technographic platforms. The technology coverage is much narrower, and most users subscribe because they need competitive intelligence rather than software stack analysis.

The biggest value comes from combining the two platforms.

Use Datanyze or another technographic provider to identify companies based on technology adoption, then use Similarweb to determine which of those companies deserve your attention first.

What I liked

  • Excellent website traffic and market intelligence
  • Strong competitive analysis tools
  • Helpful for prioritizing technology-qualified accounts
  • Useful audience and acquisition insights
  • Great for market research and competitive benchmarking

Where it falls short

  • Not a dedicated technographic platform
  • Limited technology detection compared to Datanyze
  • Prospecting features are secondary to market intelligence
  • Premium plans can become expensive

If you’re replacing Datanyze because you need deeper technology intelligence, Similarweb isn’t the answer. But if you’re looking for better context around the companies you’ve already identified, it’s one of the most valuable complementary tools you can add to your workflow.

11. HG Insights

HG Insights is probably the closest thing to an enterprise-grade replacement for Datanyze.

Both platforms use technographic data to help sales teams identify better prospects, but they’re built for very different audiences.

Datanyze is designed to help individual sales reps and smaller teams qualify accounts quickly.

HG Insights is built for large organizations that want technographic data embedded across territory planning, account scoring, TAM analysis, and revenue operations.

That difference becomes clear the moment you start using the platform.

Rather than searching for companies using a particular technology, HG Insights encourages you to analyze entire markets.

For example, a cybersecurity vendor might identify every enterprise running VMware alongside Palo Alto Networks, then prioritize accounts based on IT spend, cloud maturity, infrastructure investments, and technology refresh cycles.

It’s less about finding your next prospect and more about understanding where your biggest opportunities exist.

Another strength is the depth of enterprise technology coverage.

HG Insights has invested heavily in detecting infrastructure software, cloud platforms, networking products, enterprise applications, and hardware environments. If you’re selling into Fortune 1000 companies, those signals can be considerably more valuable than knowing whether a business uses a particular marketing automation platform.

That said, most SMB sales teams won’t need this level of sophistication.

The platform is built for organizations with dedicated RevOps teams, complex sales motions, and enterprise budgets. If you’re replacing Datanyze because you need a simple way to identify technology-qualified prospects, HG Insights will likely feel like far more platform than you actually require.

Pricing reflects that positioning as well.

Unlike Datanyze, which is accessible to smaller businesses, HG Insights primarily serves enterprise customers and is typically purchased through custom sales engagements.

What I liked

  • Excellent enterprise technographic coverage
  • Strong insights into infrastructure and IT environments
  • Well suited for territory planning and market analysis
  • Rich data for enterprise account prioritization
  • Designed for large RevOps and sales organizations

Where it falls short

  • Enterprise pricing
  • Significant learning curve
  • More platform than most SMBs need
  • Not ideal for quick day-to-day prospecting

If you’re an enterprise sales organization looking to make technographics a core part of your go-to-market strategy, HG Insights deserves serious consideration. For startups, agencies, and growing sales teams simply looking for a modern Datanyze replacement, it’s likely more complex and expensive than necessary.

12. Wappalyzer

Wappalyzer is probably the tool most people have installed without thinking of it as a Datanyze alternative.

Unlike Datanyze, which combines technographic data with sales prospecting features, Wappalyzer focuses almost entirely on identifying the technologies behind a website. Install the browser extension, visit a website, and you’ll instantly see the CMS, analytics tools, JavaScript frameworks, hosting provider, ecommerce platform, advertising technologies, and much more.

For individual website research, it’s hard to beat.

The extension is fast, accurate, and requires almost no learning curve. Whether you’re a developer investigating a competitor’s stack or a salesperson qualifying a prospect before a meeting, it delivers the information you need within seconds.

Where the comparison with Datanyze starts to break down is scale.

Datanyze is designed to help you find companies based on technology adoption. Wappalyzer helps you inspect websites you already know about.

That’s a subtle but important distinction.

Suppose you’re selling a Shopify analytics platform.

With Datanyze, you can search for Shopify merchants that match your ideal customer profile and begin building a prospect list.

With Wappalyzer, you would typically visit each company’s website individually to verify its technology stack.

That manual workflow is perfectly reasonable for researching a handful of accounts, but it doesn’t scale well when you’re qualifying hundreds or thousands of companies.

Wappalyzer also offers APIs and paid plans, but its primary audience remains developers, marketers, consultants, and researchers rather than outbound sales teams building technology-driven prospect lists.

What I liked

  • One of the best browser extensions for technology detection
  • Fast and accurate website analysis
  • Excellent coverage of common web technologies
  • Very easy to use
  • Great for one-off research and competitor analysis

Where it falls short

  • Built around individual website inspection rather than prospecting
  • Limited lead generation capabilities compared to Datanyze
  • Less suitable for bulk technology-based searches
  • Sales workflows require additional tools

If your daily work involves inspecting individual websites, Wappalyzer remains one of the best tools available. But if you’re replacing Datanyze because you want to build outbound lists based on technology adoption, you’ll quickly outgrow a browser extension and benefit from a platform designed for large-scale technographic prospecting.

Which Datanyze Alternative Should You Choose?

After spending time with each platform, one thing became clear: there isn’t a single replacement that’s best for everyone.

The right choice depends on why you’re moving away from Datanyze in the first place.

If your biggest frustration is limited technology coverage or the inability to build highly targeted prospect lists, you’ll get the most value from a dedicated technographic platform.

If you’re looking for an all-in-one sales intelligence solution with contacts, outreach, and CRM integrations, a broader sales platform may make more sense even if its technographic data isn’t as detailed.

Here’s how I’d choose.

Choose StackScan if…

You’re buying a technographic platform first.

StackScan is the strongest option if your workflow revolves around finding companies based on technology adoption, generating targeted lead lists, tracking technology changes, or integrating technographic data into your own systems through an API.

It’s particularly well suited for sales teams, agencies, SaaS companies, and RevOps teams that want deep technology intelligence without enterprise-level pricing.

Choose BuiltWith if…

Historical technology data is your priority.

BuiltWith remains one of the best tools for researching how a company’s technology stack has evolved over time and analyzing adoption trends across large markets.

It’s especially valuable for enterprise research, competitive intelligence, and investment analysis.

Choose ZoomInfo if…

You want a complete sales intelligence platform.

Technographics are only one part of a much broader database that includes verified contacts, buying intent, company insights, and workflow automation.

The trade-off is significantly higher pricing.

Choose Apollo if…

You want to combine prospecting and outreach in one platform.

Apollo offers enough technology filtering for many outbound teams while also providing contacts, email sequencing, and CRM integrations at a price that’s accessible for startups and growing businesses.

Choose Wappalyzer if…

Most of your work involves researching individual websites.

It’s still one of the fastest and easiest ways to identify a website’s technology stack, even though it isn’t designed for large-scale prospecting.

Choose HG Insights or 6sense if…

You’re part of a large enterprise running sophisticated account-based marketing or revenue operations programs.

Both platforms extend far beyond traditional technographic data and are built for organizations with dedicated RevOps teams and enterprise budgets.

Final Thoughts

Datanyze deserves credit for helping establish technographic data as a practical sales signal.

But the market has evolved.

Today’s buyers expect more than a browser extension and basic technology filters. They want richer technology coverage, fresher data, bulk prospecting, APIs, CRM integrations, and workflows that scale from a few prospects to millions of companies.

That’s why so many newer platforms have moved beyond simply identifying website technologies.

If your goal is researching a handful of companies before a sales call, Datanyze still does a solid job.

If your goal is building repeatable outbound campaigns around technology adoption, modern technographic platforms offer significantly more flexibility.

For most teams, StackScan stands out as the best overall Datanyze alternative because it stays focused on what made Datanyze valuable in the first place: using technology data to find better prospects. It then builds on that foundation with broader technology coverage, bulk lead generation, historical insights, APIs, and pricing that’s practical for startups as well as growing sales organizations.

Ultimately, the best platform is the one that fits your workflow. Evaluate a few, test them against your own ideal customer profile, and choose the tool that helps your team spend less time researching and more time talking to qualified prospects.

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For years, BuiltWith has been the default recommendation whenever someone asks how to identify the technologies behind a website. It still does a good job at what it was originally built for.

The problem is that my workflow changed.

Some days I’m researching a single website before a sales call. Other days I’m looking for every company using HubSpot, Next.js, Cloudflare, Stripe, or Shopify. Sometimes I need a downloadable list of prospects. Sometimes I need historical technology data. Occasionally I just want to confirm whether a JavaScript library is actually present on a page.

Those aren’t the same problem, yet most “BuiltWith alternatives” articles compare every tool as though they’re interchangeable.

After spending time testing a dozen alternatives, I realized they fall into completely different categories. Some are browser extensions. Some are enterprise intelligence platforms. Some are developer tools. A few are genuinely better than BuiltWith depending on what you’re trying to accomplish.

These are the ones I actually kept using.

How I evaluated each alternative

I wasn’t interested in who had the longest feature list.

Instead, I looked at the things that actually affect day-to-day work:

  • Detection accuracy across modern web technologies
  • Searchable technology databases instead of one-off lookups
  • Historical technology tracking
  • Bulk search and exports
  • API quality
  • Coverage of newer technologies
  • Speed during research
  • Pricing relative to the value delivered

If a tool made my workflow noticeably faster, it stayed. If it didn’t, I moved on.

1. StackScan

Best overall for technographic prospecting and technology intelligence

StackScan ended up becoming the tool I opened most often, although not for the reason I expected.

Initially I assumed it would simply replace BuiltWith.

It didn’t.

It replaced several different research steps.

The biggest difference is that StackScan isn’t built around inspecting one website at a time. Instead, it’s designed around finding companies based on the technologies they’re already using.

That changes how you work.

Suppose I want companies using HubSpot CRM, Cloudflare, Stripe, and Intercom.

With many tools, I’d already need a list of websites before checking each one individually.

With StackScan, I can search for those technology combinations directly and immediately start narrowing down potential prospects.

For outbound sales teams, agencies, partnerships, and market researchers, that’s a much more useful workflow.

Another thing that stood out was technology coverage.

StackScan tracks more than 50,000 technologies, including CMS platforms, ecommerce systems, analytics platforms, AI products, developer frameworks, payment providers, marketing software, infrastructure services, security products, and thousands of niche technologies that many competing databases still miss.

That broader coverage becomes especially valuable when researching newer categories.

AI infrastructure, LLM providers, developer tools, modern JavaScript frameworks, AI assistants, and emerging SaaS products are evolving much faster than traditional technology databases. StackScan appears to prioritize expanding those categories, which makes searches more useful for companies targeting fast-moving markets.

I also liked that lead generation isn’t treated as an afterthought.

Instead of simply identifying a technology, I could immediately build downloadable prospect lists based on those technologies.

That’s a completely different use case than browser-based detection.

Pricing was another surprise.

Enterprise technographic platforms often become difficult to justify unless you’re managing a large sales organization. StackScan delivers much of the same practical value at a fraction of that cost, making the ROI much easier to justify for startups, agencies, consultants, and growing SaaS companies.

That doesn’t mean it’s perfect.

If I’m already visiting a website and simply want to know what CMS it’s uses or whether it runs React, I still reach for a browser extension like Wappalyzer because it’s faster than opening another platform.

But whenever my objective is finding companies rather than inspecting websites, StackScan has become my default choice.

What I liked

  • Search companies by technologies instead of checking sites individually
  • 50,000+ tracked technologies
  • Strong coverage of newer AI and SaaS technologies
  • Downloadable lead lists
  • API available
  • Excellent value compared to enterprise alternatives

Where it fits best

Sales prospecting, market research, competitor analysis, partner discovery, agency targeting, and technographic lead generation.

2. Wappalyzer

Best for instant website technology detection

Even after using larger technographic platforms, I still keep Wappalyzer installed.

That probably says more about the product than any feature comparison could.

Sometimes I don’t need a database of companies. I don’t need exports, APIs, or historical data. I just land on a website and want to know what it’s running.

A single click answers that question.

That’s where Wappalyzer still feels unbeatable.

The browser extension is fast, unobtrusive, and accurate enough that I rarely feel the need to verify obvious technologies. Within seconds it surfaces frameworks, CMSs, analytics platforms, CDNs, JavaScript libraries, marketing tools, payment providers, hosting providers, and dozens of other signals that would otherwise require manually inspecting source code.

That speed makes it an excellent companion tool during sales research.

If I’m qualifying an account before an outreach campaign, I can immediately see whether they’re using HubSpot, Shopify, WordPress, React, Cloudflare, Stripe, or another relevant platform while browsing their website. There’s virtually no interruption to my workflow.

What surprised me after using it more extensively, though, was where its strengths end.

Wappalyzer is fundamentally built around website inspection, not market discovery.

For example, imagine you want to find every ecommerce company using Klaviyo together with Recharge and Shopify Plus.

Wappalyzer isn’t really designed for that workflow.

It tells you what this website uses.

It doesn’t naturally answer questions like:

  • Which companies use this technology?
  • How many websites are running it?
  • Can I export them?
  • Which technologies commonly appear together?
  • Which companies adopted it recently?

Those questions require a searchable technographic database rather than a browser extension.

Its paid plans and API address some of those needs, but if lead generation becomes your primary goal, dedicated platforms generally provide a smoother experience.

Another limitation is that browser extensions only work when you’re already visiting a website.

They’re excellent at confirming technologies.

They’re much less useful for discovering opportunities you didn’t already know existed.

That’s why I eventually stopped thinking of Wappalyzer as a BuiltWith replacement.

Instead, I treat it as the fastest inspection tool available.

Whenever I need to validate a single company, it’s usually my first click.

Whenever I need thousands of companies matching specific technologies, I switch to a searchable platform instead.

That combination has proven far more effective than trying to force one tool to do both jobs.

What I liked

  • Outstanding browser extension
  • Extremely fast website inspection
  • Reliable detection across most common web technologies
  • Useful API for automation
  • Easy to incorporate into daily research

What I didn’t

  • Better at inspecting websites than discovering new prospects
  • Limited value if your workflow revolves around finding companies rather than checking individual domains
  • Bulk prospecting capabilities don’t match dedicated technographic platforms

Where it fits best

Sales reps researching accounts, developers inspecting websites, marketers analyzing competitors, and anyone who regularly needs quick technology lookups while browsing.

3. Similarweb

Best when technology alone doesn’t tell the full story

Similarweb probably isn’t the first product people think of when searching for a BuiltWith alternative.

I almost left it off this list.

After using it alongside several technographic platforms, though, I realized I was opening it just as often.

The reason is simple.

Knowing what technologies a company uses is only half the story.

Knowing whether that company is actually growing can completely change how you prioritize it.

Here’s a practical example.

Imagine I find two SaaS companies running exactly the same stack: HubSpot, Segment, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Next.js.

From a technographic perspective, they look nearly identical.

Then I open Similarweb.

One company has flat traffic over the last year.

The other has doubled its monthly visitors and is expanding into new markets.

If I’m choosing where to spend my outreach efforts, that’s an easy decision.

This is where Similarweb complements technographic tools rather than replacing them.

It gives context.

Traffic trends, acquisition channels, audience geography, engagement metrics, referral sources, and competitor benchmarking all help answer questions that technology detection simply can’t.

I also found myself using Similarweb during competitive research.

When evaluating a competitor, I rarely care only about their CMS or analytics platform.

I want to understand whether they’re growing, where their visitors come from, which markets they’re entering, and who else competes for the same audience.

That’s Similarweb’s strength.

Of course, it has limitations if your goal is purely technographic research.

Technology detection isn’t its primary focus.

You won’t find the same depth of searchable technology filters, downloadable technology-specific prospect lists, or extensive technographic segmentation available in platforms built specifically for that purpose.

Pricing is another consideration.

Many of Similarweb’s most valuable capabilities sit behind higher-tier plans, which makes it difficult to justify if all you need is technology intelligence.

For me, Similarweb works best as the second step.

I use a technographic platform to identify the right companies first.

Then I use Similarweb to decide which of those companies deserve my attention first.

That combination produces much better results than relying on either tool independently.

What I liked

  • Excellent website traffic intelligence
  • Strong competitive benchmarking
  • Useful audience and acquisition insights
  • Helps prioritize prospects based on growth rather than technology alone
  • Valuable for market research and competitive analysis

What I didn’t

  • Not designed as a dedicated technographic database
  • Limited technology-focused prospecting compared to specialist platforms
  • Premium features become expensive as requirements grow

Where it fits best

Competitive intelligence, account prioritization, market research, partnership evaluation, and validating whether technology-qualified companies are actually worth pursuing.

4. ZoomInfo

Best for teams that want contacts and technographics in one platform

ZoomInfo approaches technology intelligence from a different angle than most tools on this list.

Its primary product isn’t technology detection.

It’s B2B contact data.

Technographics are layered on top of that.

That distinction matters because it changes how you use the platform.

With BuiltWith or StackScan, I usually start with a technology.

“Show me companies using Snowflake.”

With ZoomInfo, I often start with people.

“Find IT Directors at mid-market companies using Snowflake.”

For sales teams already running outbound campaigns inside ZoomInfo, that workflow is incredibly convenient.

Instead of exporting a list from one platform and enriching it somewhere else, everything stays in the same environment.

I found the technology filters comprehensive enough for most mainstream software categories. Popular CRMs, marketing automation platforms, cloud providers, ecommerce platforms, analytics tools, collaboration software, and developer technologies are all well represented.

The real advantage, however, is combining those filters with ZoomInfo’s company and contact data.

For example, I could search for companies using Salesforce, filter by employee count, revenue, industry, and region, then immediately identify the VP of Sales or Head of RevOps responsible for that stack.

That removes several steps from the prospecting process.

The trade-off is cost.

ZoomInfo is one of the most expensive products in this category, and its pricing makes sense only if you’ll actually use the broader platform. Paying enterprise prices just for technographic filters would be difficult to justify when specialist tools offer deeper technology intelligence at a much lower cost.

I also noticed that technographics feel like one signal among many rather than the platform’s core focus.

That’s not necessarily a weakness. It simply reflects ZoomInfo’s positioning.

If your primary objective is building highly targeted technology-based prospect lists, dedicated technographic platforms still provide more flexibility.

If your sales organization already depends on ZoomInfo for contact discovery, though, the built-in technology data becomes a natural extension of an existing workflow.

For larger revenue teams, reducing tool switching can be just as valuable as adding another feature.

What I liked

  • Contact data and technographics in a single platform
  • Strong filtering across companies and decision-makers
  • Fits naturally into outbound sales workflows
  • Good coverage of widely adopted business technologies
  • Reduces the need for additional enrichment tools

What I didn’t

  • Enterprise pricing isn’t realistic for many smaller teams
  • Technographics aren’t as central to the product as they are in specialist platforms
  • Less flexibility for users focused primarily on technology intelligence

Where it fits best

Established sales organizations, RevOps teams, and enterprises that already rely on ZoomInfo for prospecting and want technology data integrated into the same workflow.

5. PublicWWW

Best for finding websites by what’s actually in their source code

PublicWWW isn’t a traditional technographic platform, and that’s exactly why I kept coming back to it.

Instead of asking, “Which technologies does this website use?” it asks a different question:

“What exists inside this website’s HTML, JavaScript, CSS, or meta tags?”

That subtle difference makes it incredibly useful.

For example, let’s say I want to find websites using a specific Google Tag Manager container, Meta Pixel ID, affiliate tracking script, live chat widget, schema markup, or even a unique JavaScript function.

Most technology databases won’t help.

PublicWWW will.

It’s essentially a search engine for website source code.

That opens up workflows that traditional technology fingerprinting simply wasn’t designed for.

I’ve used it to:

  • Find websites embedding a specific JavaScript library.
  • Identify companies using a particular analytics or tracking implementation.
  • Discover websites sharing the same affiliate or advertising code.
  • Locate sites running custom widgets or proprietary scripts.
  • Research competitors by searching for unique snippets rather than technology names.

This also makes PublicWWW surprisingly effective for validating technology detections.

If one tool claims a website uses a certain platform but I’m not convinced, searching the site’s source code often provides a quick answer.

Of course, this approach has limitations.

PublicWWW doesn’t classify technologies the way StackScan, BuiltWith, or Wappalyzer do. It won’t tell you that a company belongs to a specific CRM segment or generate downloadable prospect lists filtered by hundreds of technology categories.

You need to know what you’re looking for.

Sometimes that’s a JavaScript filename.

Sometimes it’s a CSS class.

Sometimes it’s a tracking ID.

For less technical users, that learning curve can feel intimidating.

But if you’re comfortable inspecting websites or working with developers, it’s one of the most flexible research tools available.

Interestingly, I stopped thinking of PublicWWW as a competitor to BuiltWith after a few days.

It’s better viewed as a complementary tool.

I often start by identifying companies with a technographic platform, then use PublicWWW to dig deeper into implementation details that categorized technology databases don’t expose.

Few tools on this list changed how I investigated websites as much as PublicWWW did.

What I liked

  • Searches actual HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and meta tags
  • Excellent for tracking IDs, scripts, widgets, and code snippets
  • Useful for validating technology detections
  • Reveals implementation details that traditional fingerprinting often misses
  • Great for technical research and competitive analysis

What I didn’t

  • Not designed for technology-based lead generation
  • Requires a more technical mindset than most alternatives
  • Doesn’t replace searchable technographic databases

Where it fits best

Developers, technical marketers, SEO professionals, growth teams, and researchers who need to search website source code rather than rely solely on technology classifications.

6. Datanyze

Best for lightweight B2B sales prospecting

Datanyze has been around for a long time, and unlike some of the enterprise platforms on this list, it has stayed focused on a fairly specific audience.

Salespeople who need just enough intelligence to start better conversations.

After testing it alongside larger technographic platforms, I understood why it still has a loyal user base.

The experience is intentionally simple.

The Chrome extension lets you visit a company’s website and quickly identify technologies, company details, and, where available, business contact information. If your daily workflow involves researching accounts one by one before sending personalized emails, that convenience is hard to ignore.

I also liked that Datanyze doesn’t try to overwhelm users with hundreds of filters or enterprise features.

You can move from identifying a company’s technology stack to finding relevant contacts without jumping between multiple products.

For smaller sales teams, that’s often enough.

Where I found Datanyze less compelling was at scale.

Once I wanted to answer broader questions like:

  • Which companies adopted HubSpot in the last few months?
  • Find every ecommerce business using Klaviyo and Recharge.
  • Export thousands of companies matching several technologies.
  • Analyze adoption trends across an industry.

…the platform started to feel limiting.

That’s because Datanyze is built around account research, not large-scale technographic discovery.

Coverage is generally strongest for mainstream business software. It does a solid job identifying popular CRMs, marketing automation tools, ecommerce platforms, analytics solutions, and customer support software, but I noticed it was less comprehensive when researching newer AI products, niche developer tools, or emerging SaaS categories.

Pricing sits somewhere in the middle of the market.

It’s considerably more accessible than enterprise products like ZoomInfo or HG Insights, but if technology intelligence is your primary objective, platforms built specifically around searchable technographic data tend to deliver more value for the investment.

Even so, I can see why SDRs continue to use it.

When your job revolves around qualifying one account after another, speed matters more than exhaustive datasets.

Datanyze understands that workflow well.

What I liked

  • Simple Chrome extension
  • Easy account-by-account research
  • Company information and contact discovery in one workflow
  • Good coverage of widely used business technologies
  • Gentle learning curve

What I didn’t

  • Better suited to individual account research than large-scale prospecting
  • Technology coverage isn’t as broad as specialist technographic platforms
  • Limited flexibility for complex technology searches

Where it fits best

Sales development representatives, account executives, recruiters, and smaller outbound teams that research companies individually rather than building large technology-based prospect lists.

7. WhatRuns

Best free browser extension for quick technology checks

If Wappalyzer feels like a Swiss Army knife, WhatRuns feels like the lightweight tool you keep around because it gets out of your way.

It’s one of those extensions I installed expecting to remove after a few days.

I never did.

The reason is simple.

Sometimes I don’t need a complete technology profile. I just want to know which CMS, analytics platform, advertising network, JavaScript framework, fonts, or marketing tools a website is using without opening another tab or dashboard.

WhatRuns does that remarkably well.

The interface is clean, detection is quick, and it covers many of the technologies marketers and developers care about most. During competitor research, it’s often enough to answer the immediate questions that come up while browsing.

I also found it particularly useful when reviewing marketing websites.

Being able to quickly identify tools like Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, HubSpot, Hotjar, Intercom, Segment, or various A/B testing platforms without inspecting the page source saves a surprising amount of time over the course of a week.

Where WhatRuns starts to fall behind is when the research extends beyond a single website.

It doesn’t aim to be a searchable technographic database.

You can’t build prospect lists based on technology adoption, compare adoption trends across industries, or export companies matching complex technology combinations.

That’s simply outside its scope.

Detection depth can also vary.

For mainstream technologies, I found it reliable. For niche developer tools, newer AI products, or less common SaaS platforms, dedicated technographic databases generally surfaced more information.

Rather than replacing those platforms, WhatRuns became the browser extension I use for quick confirmation.

If I discover an interesting company through StackScan or another database, WhatRuns is often the fastest way to validate what I’m seeing while exploring the website.

It’s free, lightweight, and easy to recommend.

Just don’t expect it to solve the same problems as products built around technology intelligence at scale.

What I liked

  • Free and easy to use
  • Fast browser-based technology detection
  • Clean interface with minimal distractions
  • Great for day-to-day competitor research
  • Covers most widely adopted marketing and web technologies

What I didn’t

  • No searchable technology database
  • No bulk prospecting or exports
  • Detection coverage isn’t as extensive as dedicated technographic platforms

Where it fits best

Marketers, agencies, developers, consultants, and anyone who wants a quick, free way to identify the technologies behind a website without leaving the browser.

8. 6sense

Best for enterprise revenue teams combining technographics with buying intent

I almost didn’t include 6sense because it’s solving a much larger problem than technology detection.

Then I realized that’s exactly why many enterprise teams evaluate it alongside BuiltWith.

If your sales process already revolves around account-based marketing, predictive scoring, and intent signals, technographics become one input among dozens of buying signals.

That’s where 6sense stands out.

Rather than simply telling me a company uses AWS or Salesforce, it tries to answer a more valuable question:

Is this company likely to be in-market?

That’s a significant shift.

Technology adoption tells you something about a company’s infrastructure.

Buying intent tells you whether they’re actively researching solutions.

When those two signals are combined, prioritization becomes much easier.

For example, filtering companies using Snowflake is useful.

Filtering companies using Snowflake and actively researching data governance platforms is considerably more actionable.

That combination is the reason many enterprise revenue teams invest in platforms like 6sense.

Following its acquisition of Slintel, 6sense also strengthened its technographic capabilities. Technology filters are now integrated into a much broader revenue intelligence platform alongside firmographics, intent data, predictive modeling, account scoring, and orchestration.

The downside is complexity.

This isn’t the type of product you sign up for in the morning and start exporting prospect lists by lunch.

Implementing 6sense typically involves multiple stakeholders, CRM integrations, marketing automation platforms, sales processes, and RevOps ownership.

That’s perfectly reasonable for large organizations.

It’s excessive for most startups and smaller sales teams.

Pricing reflects that reality.

For organizations with mature ABM programs, the investment can make sense.

If your only goal is identifying companies by technology stack, though, much simpler and less expensive platforms deliver faster time to value.

After testing it, I came away with the impression that 6sense isn’t really competing with BuiltWith.

It’s competing with enterprise revenue platforms.

Technographics just happen to be one of the signals it uses exceptionally well.

What I liked

  • Combines technographics with intent data
  • Strong fit for account-based marketing
  • Powerful segmentation and prioritization
  • Deep CRM and marketing automation integrations
  • Suitable for complex enterprise sales motions

What I didn’t

  • Significant learning curve
  • Implementation is far more involved than specialist technographic tools
  • Enterprise pricing puts it out of reach for many smaller organizations
  • Overkill if you simply need technology intelligence

Where it fits best

Large enterprise sales and marketing teams running sophisticated ABM programs that want technographics, buying intent, predictive analytics, and account prioritization in a single platform.

9. HG Insights

Best for enterprise IT and infrastructure intelligence

HG Insights sits in a very different category from most of the tools I’ve covered so far.

If StackScan, BuiltWith, and Wappalyzer help answer “What technologies does this company use?”, HG Insights is more interested in “What does this organization’s entire IT environment look like?”

That difference becomes obvious as soon as you start using it.

The platform goes well beyond public website technologies and focuses heavily on enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, hardware, IT spending, procurement signals, and technology investments across large organizations.

For companies selling into enterprise IT departments, that’s incredibly valuable.

Imagine you’re selling backup software.

Knowing a company uses Microsoft 365 is useful.

Knowing they’re heavily invested in VMware, Dell infrastructure, Cisco networking, Azure, and ServiceNow provides a much clearer picture of their existing environment and the products they’re likely to evaluate next.

That’s the type of context HG Insights is designed to provide.

I also found its technology classifications more aligned with enterprise procurement than web development.

While browser-based tools naturally emphasize JavaScript frameworks, analytics platforms, ecommerce software, and CMSs, HG Insights spends more effort on technologies that influence enterprise buying decisions.

That makes perfect sense given its target audience.

The trade-off is accessibility.

For startups, agencies, consultants, and SMB-focused sales teams, much of that depth is unnecessary.

If you’re primarily trying to identify Shopify merchants, HubSpot customers, or companies using Next.js, there are simpler and considerably more affordable ways to accomplish that.

Pricing reflects its enterprise positioning.

This isn’t a tool you subscribe to for occasional competitive research.

It’s an investment for organizations with mature enterprise sales teams, dedicated RevOps functions, and complex territory planning.

That doesn’t make it better or worse than the other platforms.

It simply solves a different problem.

After using HG Insights, I stopped comparing it directly with BuiltWith.

It’s more accurate to think of it as enterprise technology intelligence rather than website technology detection.

What I liked

  • Deep visibility into enterprise IT environments
  • Strong coverage of infrastructure, cloud, and business software
  • Valuable for enterprise account planning
  • Rich technology classifications beyond public web technologies
  • Built for strategic B2B sales

What I didn’t

  • Enterprise pricing
  • More capability than most SMB teams need
  • Not the fastest option for simple website technology lookups
  • Less suitable for lightweight prospecting workflows

Where it fits best

Enterprise software vendors, strategic account teams, RevOps organizations, and companies selling complex B2B solutions into large enterprises where understanding the broader IT landscape matters as much as knowing the public technology stack.

10. Koala Inspector

Best for researching Shopify stores

Koala Inspector is proof that being highly specialized can be an advantage.

Unlike most tools in this list, it doesn’t try to identify every technology used across the web.

It focuses almost entirely on Shopify.

If your customers are ecommerce brands, Shopify agencies, app developers, payment providers, logistics platforms, or email marketing companies, that’s exactly what you want.

After using it for a few days, I stopped comparing it to BuiltWith altogether.

Generic technology detectors will usually tell you a website runs Shopify.

Koala goes much further.

It can surface information about the store’s theme, installed apps, product catalog, collections, pricing, best-selling products, and other ecommerce-specific signals that general-purpose technology intelligence platforms simply aren’t designed to expose.

That additional context changes the quality of your research.

For example, knowing a company uses Shopify is interesting.

Knowing it also runs Klaviyo, Recharge, Judge.me, Gorgias, and a premium theme paints a much clearer picture of its ecommerce maturity and potential software needs.

For Shopify app companies, those details can directly influence prospecting and partnership strategies.

I also appreciated how quickly the extension presents information.

While browsing a store, I could inspect key details without opening multiple tabs or digging through source code.

It’s a streamlined workflow that feels purpose-built for ecommerce research.

The obvious limitation is scope.

Outside Shopify, Koala has very little to offer.

It isn’t a replacement for a broad technographic database, and it won’t help if you’re researching SaaS companies, publishers, financial services, healthcare organizations, or enterprises running completely different technology stacks.

That’s perfectly fine.

Not every product needs to solve every problem.

In fact, Koala became more valuable to me once I stopped expecting it to compete with general-purpose platforms.

When my research starts with “Find Shopify stores,” I often begin with StackScan to identify relevant companies and then use Koala Inspector to understand how those stores are built and which apps they’re running.

The two tools complement each other remarkably well.

What I liked

  • Excellent visibility into Shopify themes and apps
  • Useful ecommerce-specific insights beyond simple technology detection
  • Fast browser extension
  • Great for agencies, app developers, and ecommerce consultants
  • Adds context that generic technology detectors often miss

What I didn’t

  • Limited almost entirely to Shopify
  • Not suitable for general technographic research
  • Doesn’t replace searchable technology databases or prospecting platforms

Where it fits best

Shopify agencies, ecommerce SaaS companies, app developers, consultants, and anyone whose business revolves around understanding how Shopify stores are built.

11. WhatWeb (Open Source)

Best open-source alternative for developers and security researchers

Most of the tools in this article are built for sales, marketing, or competitive intelligence.

WhatWeb comes from a different world.

It’s an open-source command-line tool that’s been widely used by developers, penetration testers, and security researchers for years to fingerprint websites and identify the technologies running behind them.

That heritage becomes obvious the moment you use it.

There are no polished dashboards, lead lists, or company profiles.

Instead, you point WhatWeb at a website, and it starts identifying everything it can, from web servers and CMS platforms to frameworks, analytics tools, JavaScript libraries, cookies, HTTP headers, and infrastructure components.

Its plugin-based architecture is one of its biggest strengths.

With hundreds of detection plugins available, WhatWeb can recognize a surprisingly broad range of technologies, and because it’s scriptable, it fits naturally into automation workflows.

I found it particularly useful when I wanted to scan multiple websites as part of a custom process.

For example, if you’re building your own enrichment pipeline or validating technology detections programmatically, a command-line tool often makes more sense than relying on a browser extension.

The trade-off is obvious.

Everything else is up to you.

There’s no searchable database of companies.

No prospect filtering.

No downloadable lead lists.

No historical adoption trends.

If your goal is finding every company using a particular technology, WhatWeb won’t help much because it isn’t trying to solve that problem.

Instead, it’s designed to inspect websites that you already know about.

That’s why I see it as complementary rather than competitive.

Developers can use WhatWeb to automate technology detection inside their own workflows, while sales and marketing teams will usually get more value from platforms built around searchable technographic intelligence.

Even if you never plan to use it daily, it’s worth knowing about.

Many commercial technology intelligence platforms ultimately rely on similar fingerprinting concepts under the hood.

WhatWeb simply exposes those capabilities directly through an open-source project.

What I liked

  • Completely open source
  • Scriptable and automation-friendly
  • Extensive plugin ecosystem
  • Strong detection across web servers, frameworks, and infrastructure
  • Excellent for technical workflows

What I didn’t

  • Command-line interface isn’t ideal for non-technical users
  • No searchable company database
  • No lead generation or prospecting features
  • Requires more setup than commercial SaaS platforms

Where it fits best

Developers, security professionals, researchers, and engineering teams building custom technology detection workflows or integrating website fingerprinting into their own tools.

12. Wappalyzer Next (Open Source)

Best open-source option for building your own technographic workflows

Most open-source technology detection projects eventually become outdated.

Fingerprints change, new frameworks emerge, and maintaining an accurate technology database turns out to be far more difficult than it looks.

That’s why Wappalyzer Next caught my attention.

Instead of reinventing technology detection from scratch, the project is designed to stay closely aligned with Wappalyzer’s detection fingerprints while exposing them through a developer-friendly interface. If you’re building internal tooling, enrichment pipelines, or automated research workflows, that’s a practical advantage.

After experimenting with it, I wouldn’t describe it as a replacement for commercial platforms.

It’s a building block.

For example, imagine you’re crawling thousands of websites every week and enriching your own CRM or data warehouse.

You probably don’t need dashboards, lead lists, or prospect search.

You need a fast, scriptable way to identify technologies and feed those results into your own systems.

That’s exactly where projects like Wappalyzer Next fit.

I also appreciated that it supports multiple scanning modes, allowing you to balance speed and detection depth depending on the workload. During large crawls, that flexibility can significantly reduce processing time without sacrificing too much accuracy.

Of course, choosing an open-source library means accepting additional responsibility.

You’ll need to manage infrastructure, schedule crawls, handle retries, process results, and maintain the surrounding pipeline yourself.

Commercial platforms abstract all of that away.

They continuously crawl the web, normalize detections, track historical changes, and provide searchable datasets out of the box.

Replicating that internally is a substantial engineering effort.

That’s why I see Wappalyzer Next as serving a completely different audience.

If you’re a sales team looking for companies using Snowflake or Shopify, a hosted technographic platform will get you there much faster.

If you’re an engineering team building a custom technology intelligence product or internal crawler, an open-source foundation like Wappalyzer Next can save months of development work.

The right choice depends less on detection quality and more on whether you want to buy a dataset or build one.

What I liked

  • Open source and developer-friendly
  • Well suited for custom crawlers and automation
  • Flexible scanning modes
  • Good starting point for internal technographic projects
  • Easier to integrate into existing engineering workflows than many desktop tools

What I didn’t

  • Not a hosted technology intelligence platform
  • Requires engineering resources to operate at scale
  • No built-in company database, historical tracking, or prospecting capabilities
  • Better viewed as infrastructure than an end-user product

Where it fits best

Engineering teams, data companies, SaaS products, and developers who want to build their own technology detection workflows instead of subscribing to a managed technographic platform.

The biggest lesson I learned

When I started testing these tools, I was looking for the BuiltWith alternative.

By the end, I realized that was the wrong question.

The biggest difference between these products isn’t detection accuracy.

It’s the workflow they’re built to support.

Some tools help you inspect a single website.

Others help you discover thousands of companies using a specific technology.

Some specialize in enterprise IT intelligence. Others focus on Shopify stores or website source code. Open-source projects give developers the building blocks to create their own technology intelligence pipelines.

Treating all of them as direct competitors misses the point.

The tool I reached for most often depended entirely on what I was trying to accomplish.

If I needed targeted prospect lists based on technology adoption, StackScan consistently delivered the fastest path from idea to qualified accounts.

If I was already on a website and wanted a quick answer, Wappalyzer or WhatRuns was usually enough.

When I wanted to understand how a Shopify store was put together, Koala Inspector added context that general-purpose detectors couldn’t.

And when I needed to investigate implementation details buried inside HTML or JavaScript, PublicWWW was often the better choice than any technographic database.

That shift in perspective changed how I evaluate technology intelligence tools.

I stopped asking which one was “best.”

Instead, I started asking which one removed the most work from a specific task.

That’s a much more useful way to choose a BuiltWith alternative.

Final thoughts

When I started testing these tools, I assumed I’d eventually find one product that could replace BuiltWith entirely.

That never happened.

Instead, I found products solving very different problems.

Some excel at identifying the technologies behind a single website. Others help discover thousands of companies using a particular stack. A few focus on enterprise IT intelligence, while open-source projects give developers the building blocks to create their own technology detection workflows.

For the work I do most often, StackScan became the platform I kept returning to.

The reason wasn’t simply its technology coverage, although tracking more than 50,000 technologies certainly helps. It was the workflow.

Instead of asking, “What technologies does this website use?”, I could ask, “Show me every company using these technologies.”

That shift saves a significant amount of research time when prospecting, analyzing markets, identifying partnership opportunities, or tracking technology adoption across an industry.

That doesn’t mean I stopped using everything else.

Wappalyzer remains my preferred browser extension for quick website inspections because it’s hard to beat the convenience of seeing a technology stack with a single click.

PublicWWW has become one of my favorite research tools whenever I need to search source code rather than categorized technologies.

And if I were building my own technology intelligence platform, I’d almost certainly start with an open-source project like WhatWeb or Wappalyzer Next instead of writing a fingerprinting engine from scratch.

Ultimately, the biggest lesson from this exercise wasn’t discovering a perfect BuiltWith replacement.

It was realizing that the best choice depends less on the number of features and more on the workflow you’re trying to improve.

Once I started evaluating these tools through that lens, StackScan consistently delivered the most value for my day-to-day work, while the others earned a permanent place for more specialized tasks.

That’s a much more useful outcome than trying to force one product to do everything.

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If you’re exploring the crypto space – whether as an investor, developer, or curious observer – knowing which websites attract the most traffic can provide valuable insights into where the action is happening.

Below is a curated list of the most visited crypto websites on the web.

A Few Notes:

  • Think we missed a site or included one that doesn’t belong? We welcome your suggestions.
  • Sites are ranked by monthly visitor volume, from highest to lowest, based on data from Similarweb.com.
  • This list spans a wide range of platforms, including exchanges, blockchain explorers, news outlets, and more.
Order
Website Name
Monthly Visitors
Website Type
Language/Market
1
88870550
Tracker
English
2
67557377
Marketplace
English
3
57631148
Marketplace
English
4
40532258
Marketplace
English
5
40463710
Marketplace
English
6
38338710
Marketplace
English
7
34684308
Wallet
English
8
30879374
Marketplace
English
9
26762885
Marketplace
English
10
25746411
Marketplace
English
11
25382775
Marketplace
English
12
25148097
Tracker
English
13
24960128
Marketplace
English
14
24141946
Marketplace
English
15
17680765
News
English/UK
16
17647904
Marketplace
English
17
16711076
Marketplace
English
18
15034245
Marketplace
English
19
14294508
Tracker
English
20
13908280
Marketplace
English
21
13507722
Marketplace
English
22
12783584
Marketplace
English
23
12402999
Marketplace
English
24
11123377
Official
English
25
10764806
Marketplace
English
26
10604206
Marketplace
English
27
10461866
Marketplace
English
28
9329357
Official
English
29
9160631
Marketplace
English
30
9095019
Marketplace
English
31
8236472
Marketplace
English
32
8139327
Marketplace
English
33
7981805
Marketplace
English
34
7963476
Official
English
35
7849297
Exchange
English
36
7780308
Marketplace
English
37
7762309
Community
English
38
7622907
Marketplace
English
39
7137930
Marketplace
English
40
7043437
Official
English
41
6625586
Exchange
English
42
6484284
Marketplace
English
43
6391159
Launchpad
English
44
6362358
Marketplace
English
45
6238446
Explorer
English
46
5936877
News
English
47
5829067
News
English
48
5490070
Exchange
English
49
5475022
Exchange
English
50
5399196
Gaming Platform
English
51
5194439
Marketplace
English
52
5119077
Official
English
53
5083054
Explorer
English
54
5079759
Marketplace
English
55
5068989
Marketplace
English
56
4829933
News
English
57
4653436
Official
English
58
4649699
Marketplace
English
59
4560616
Official
English
60
4465302
News
Japanese
61
4327104
News
English
62
4195348
Launchpad
English
63
4177495
Marketplace
English
64
4116135
Official
English
65
4075916
Marketplace
English
66
4039028
Official
English
67
3999256
Official
English
68
3968754
Tracker
English
69
3860013
Official
English
70
3839017
Launchpad
English
71
3821019
Marketplace
English
72
3667355
Tracker
English
73
3664153
Marketplace
English
74
3640667
Marketplace
English
75
3637543
Official
English
76
3624941
Official
English
77
3602020
Marketplace
English
78
3599644
Official
English
79
3588751
Wallet
English
80
3577812
Marketplace
Indonesian
81
3569951
Marketplace
English
82
3556920
Official
English
83
3471096
Marketplace
English
84
3451258
News
English
85
3434642
Marketplace
Vietnamese
86
3409988
Explorer
English
87
3385488
Official
English
88
3360911
Official
English
89
3354333
Wallet
English
90
3322264
Advert Platform
English
91
3321807
Bot Platfom
English
92
3298058
Marketplace
English
93
3236741
News
English
94
3219845
Tracker
English
95
3197843
Credit Card
English
96
3166855
Discovery
English
97
3135959
Marketplace
English
98
3105824
Tracker
English
99
3055051
Marketplace
English
100
3053838
News
English
101
2997923
Official
English
102
2991855
Explorer
English
103
2991162
Marketplace
English
104
2952228
News
English
105
2842605
Reward Platform
English
106
2817754
Tax Software
English
107
2728313
News
English
108
2728217
Official
English
109
2712843
Official
English
110
2690484
Tracker
English
111
2659786
Wallet
English
112
2656132
Bot Platfom
English
113
2635666
Wallet
English
114
2628608
Marketplace
English
115
2601770
Mining Pool
English
116
2576006
News
English
117
2563584
Tracker
English
118
2445081
Marketplace
English
119
2418769
Marketplace
English
120
2330785
News
English
121
2282579
Marketplace
English
122
2265826
Tracker
English
123
2243899
Official
English
124
2179761
Marketplace
English
125
2111604
API Platform
English
126
2104843
AI Platform
English
127
2034493
News
Japanese
128
1983603
Miner
English
129
1942033
Explorer
English
130
1920953
News
Polish
131
1912696
Marketplace
Japanese
132
1903993
Tracker
English
133
1883006
English
134
1855817
News
Dutch
135
1842172
Marketplace
English
136
1829382
Explorer
English
137
1731531
Tracker
English
138
1723773
Official
English
139
1697087
Marketplace
Indonesian
140
1687402
Gambling
English
141
1685642
Trading Platform
English
142
1674977
News
Dutch
143
1591379
Explorer
English
144
1532349
News
English
145
1514177
Explorer
English
146
1507690
Hardware
English
147
1496100
Official
English
148
1495904
Marketplace
English
149
1489000
Official
English
150
1482375
News
Dutch
151
1464807
Tracker
English
152
1459896
News
English
153
1451044
News
English
154
1432760
Trade Platform
English
155
1429574
Tracker
English
156
1413311
Store
English
157
1411553
Marketplace
Chinese
158
1399333
Marketplace
Turkish
159
1392000
Tracker
English
160
1378957
News
English
161
1377227
Marketplace
English
162
1349817
Marketplace
English
163
1325907
Marketplace
German
164
1268656
Tracker
English
165
1232151
Marketplace
English
166
1219000
Marketplace
English
167
1183603
Marketplace
English
168
1173215
News
Turkish
169
1167352
Marketplace
Portugese
170
1115227
News
Irish
171
1111056
Trading Platform
English
172
1088151
Trading Platform
English
173
1087052
Official
English
174
1079406
Marketplace
English
175
1061196
Tax Software
English
176
1054005
Marketplace
Turkish
177
1045287
Marketplace
English
178
1043975
Mining
English
179
1037442
Launchpad
English
180
1027068
Tracker
English
181
1025708
Trading Platform
English
182
1019909
Data Visualization
English
183
1016597
Marketplace
English
184
1008473
Pool
English
185
1005775
Official
English
186
1005372
Trading Platform
English
187
1002470
Wallet
English
188
994148
Tracker
English
189
968204
Marketplace
English
190
950704
Tracker
English
191
946300
Explorer
English
192
930709
News
English
193
928668
Official
English
194
927932
Bank
English
195
927076
Explorer
English
196
902873
Marketplace
English
197
859099
Platform
English
198
845800
News
Chinese
199
838536
Marketplace
English
200
830152
Marketplace
Indonesian
201
825581
Marketplace
Portugese
202
824177
Marketplace
Korean
203
808077
Tracker
English
204
790000
News
English
205
780016
Bank
English
206
777603
Mining Pool
English
207
762965
Exchange
English
208
758556
News
English
209
752560
Marketplace
Turkish
210
742827
Marketplace
English
211
742110
Official
English
212
737305
Tracker
English
213
735978
Marketplace
English
214
734318
Official
English
215
732528
Trading Platform
English
216
731208
Official
English
217
729916
News
English
218
728894
Exchange
English
219
718107
Exchange
English
220
715605
Official
English
221
713520
Wallet
Japanese
222
707145
Marketplace
English
223
705045
Marketplace
Japanese
224
703496
Social Network
English
225
702092
Exchange
English
226
701325
Tracker
English
227
690974
Official
English
228
687585
Analytics
English
229
684676
Exchange
English
230
680212
Platform
English
231
674886
News
English
232
674577
Forums
English
233
674294
Marketplace
English
234
669607
Trading Platform
English
235
666436
Analytics
English
236
650311
Newsletter
English
237
647768
Marketplace
English
238
642877
Exchange
English
239
632089
Marketplace
Thai
240
622706
Wallet
English
241
619510
Trading Platform
English
242
604818
News
French
243
604215
Payment Gateway
English
244
603770
Explorer
English
245
602590
Trading Platform
English
246
599253
Exchange
English
247
593313
Exchange
English
248
589472
Marketplace
English
249
588271
Blog/News
German
250
576780
Analytics
English
251
576157
Official
English
252
573048
Marketplace
English
253
572541
Marketplace
English
254
572502
Official
English
255
570095
Trading Platform
English
256
566524
Exchange
English
257
565607
News
French
258
562627
Official
English
259
561099
Tracker
English
260
559190
Wallet
English
261
558007
Trading Platform
English
262
555804
Mining Pool
English
263
551993
Official
English
264
548168
Calendar
English
265
545236
Exchange
English
266
544252
Wallet
English
267
538737
Official
English
268
536386
Trading Platform
English
269
535990
News
English
270
535224
Tracker
English
271
530000
Marketplace
English
272
522542
Official
English
273
521600
News
Japanese
274
519273
Dapp Store
English
275
517141
News
English
276
515520
Wallet
Philipinese
277
515045
News
English
278
512113
Trading Platform
English
279
510816
News
Australian
280
510204
Official
English
281
509165
Marketplace
English
282
506994
Exchange
English
283
504642
Launchpad
English
284
498363
Exchange
English
285
492574
Official
English
286
489678
Advertising Network
English
287
489325
Official
English
288
488717
Wallet
English
289
486703
Official
English
290
484550
Trading Bot
English
291
482218
Wallet
English
292
480849
Official
English
293
480383
Official
English
294
478026
Payment Gateway
English
295
468815
Marketplace
English
296
464457
Official
English
297
460983
Official
English
298
459895
Ticker
English
299
459481
Official
English
300
456937
Marketplace
English
301
454917
Marketplace
English
302
453954
Exchange
English
303
451314
Launchpad
English
304
449587
Wallet
English
305
441885
News
English
306
440756
Tracker
English
307
438830
Exchange
English
308
433273
Exchange
English
309
433174
Marketplace
German
310
432715
Exchange
English
311
431915
Tracker
English
312
431196
News
English
313
430392
News
English
314
426128
Official
English
315
425386
Wallet
English
316
425069
Payment Gateway
English
317
423396
Hardware
English
318
419569
Explorer
English
319
419071
Exchange
English
320
418871
Wallet
English
321
418084
Official
English
322
417897
Tracker
English
323
417782
Launchpad
English
324
417522
Official
English
325
417310
News
English
326
416651
Explorer
English
327
416129
Tracker
English
328
415954
Store
English
329
415364
Official
English
330
414685
Official
English
331
414669
Explorer
English
332
413993
Trading Platform
English
333
413445
Launchpad
English
334
412533
Community
English
335
412147
Launchpad
English
336
411908
Launchpad
English
337
411709
Training/Courses
English
338
410769
Tracker
English
339
410071
Exchange
English
340
409910
Exchange
English
341
409742
Mining Pool
English
342
409466
Mining Pool
English
343
409129
Exchange
English
344
408672
Marketplace
English
345
408345
Lending Platform
English
346
408114
Trading Platform
English
347
407729
Official
English
348
406311
News
English
349
405430
Trading Platform
English
350
403553
Wallet
Dutch
351
403301
Platform
Portugese
352
403004
Trading Platform
English
353
402941
Wallet
English
354
402558
Tracker
English
355
401800
Trading Platform
English
356
401648
Trading Bot
English
357
400973
Trading Bot
English
358
400302
Exchange
English
359
399906
Explorer
English
360
399321
News
English
361
399087
Analytics
English
362
398142
Trading Platform
English
363
397593
Trading Platform
English
364
397394
Trading Platform
English
365
397329
Map
English
366
397258
Tracker
English
367
396591
Payment Gateway
Russian
368
395817
Marketplace
English
369
394492
Trading Platform
English
370
394087
Calendar
English
371
393514
Wallet
English
372
392703
Tracker
English
373
391562
Trading Platform
English
374
391381
Job Board
English
375
390472
Mining
English
376
390347
Official
English
377
389766
Tax Software
English
378
389527
Official
English
379
388616
Official
English
380
388513
Wallet
English
381
388372
Marketplace
English
382
387619
News
Italian
383
386893
News
English
384
386682
Mining Pool
English
385
386537
News
Bulgarian
386
386104
Marketplace
Indonesian
387
385684
Job Board
English
388
385425
Trading Platform
English
389
385292
Wallet
English
390
384689
Official
English
391
383457
Explorer
English
392
383405
Explorer
English
393
383329
Official
English
394
380728
Trading Platform
English
395
380452
OS
English
396
380166
Official
English
397
379667
News
Portugese
398
378827
Payment Gateway
English
399
377502
Exchange
English
400
377261
Exchange
Turkish
401
377017
Trading Platform
English
402
375598
News
English
403
375099
Explorer
English
404
374704
Explorer
English
405
373757
Explorer
English
406
372391
Trading Platform
English
407
370722
Official
English
408
369881
Exchange
English
409
369573
Exchange
English
410
368752
Explorer
English
411
368673
Official
English
412
367148
Official
English
413
366331
Marketplace
English
414
365673
Official
English
415
365673
Travel
English
416
365566
News
English
417
365493
News
English
418
364581
Official
English
419
364300
Lending Platform
English
420
362814
Tracker
English
421
362648
Trading Platform
Portugese
422
362519
Marketplace
English
423
362136
Marketplace
Russian
424
361544
Official
English
425
361182
Data Service
English
426
361037
News
English
427
361021
Payment Gateway
English
428
360910
Tracker
English
429
359264
NFT Marketplace
English
430
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Instant Messaging has been a big part of the internet ever since the days of AOL and other similar chatrooms. These allowed users to instantly connect to other users, with IM services being the most popular applications even till date. WhatsApp is the latest iteration of the IM application, combining the simplicity of design with a high quality of service.

Being familiar with the internet in modern times would equate to being familiar with WhatsApp, seeing as it is the most downloaded application in the world. Here we will take a look at some of the most surprising facts and statistics about WhatsApp, then understand some of the negative aspects of the IM application, followed by diving into some of the coolest features of the application.

Quick Facts

Instant messaging has come a very long way since the early days of AOL chatrooms, and Flickr messaging. The reason that instant messaging has stuck around so long is that it provides the quickest way to communicate with an individual. Just like this section is the quickest insight into WhatsApp, you’ll find on the internet!

  1. There are more than 29 million WhatsApp messages sent every minute.
  2. WhatsApp has been banned in 12 countries.
  3. WhatsApp now supports fingerprint locking for android.
  4. More than 2 billion minutes of voice and video calls are made on WhatsApp daily.
  5. Brain Acton and Jan Koum, the founders of WhatsApp, were ex-employees of Yahoo!
  6. Google offered to buy WhatsApp for 10 billion dollars before Facebook offered them nearly twice as much.

Usage Statistics and Facts

The caliber of any application can be understood by the number of people that use it and the habits of these people on the application. In this section, we will take a look at these usage statistics for WhatsApp and understand just how widespread the world most used messaging application is. Then we will look at what the future holds for the application, and how Facebook intends to change the messaging service into a one-stop application for all social and business applications.

1. New Year’s Eve is the most popular day for WhatsApp messages to be sent:

How did you wish most of your near and dear ones on New Year’s Eve this year? The chances are high that you wished them using WhatsApp’s voice or message services. According to WhatsApp’s usage statistics, more than 100 billion messages were sent on WhatsApp. Out of these, 12 billion were picture messages, and around 4 billion were video messages. UK users accounted for nearly 900 million of these messages sent in the 24 hours before midnight.

(Source: iNews)

2. WhatsApp has more than 1.5 billion monthly users, with the numbers climbing steadily:

WhatsApp has an extensive user base, with nearly 1.5 billion users across the world. These users are spread across 180 countries, with India having the greatest number of people using the application. However, WhatsApp has the highest market penetration in the country of Saudi Arabia, where nearly 73% of the entire adult population uses the application, with Malaysia having the second-highest market penetration, with 68% adults using is regularly.

(Source: xconomy)

3. WhatsApp only has 105 employees, with 50 designers and 50 engineers:

The most surprising fact about the numbers in the previous fact is that WhatsApp only has around 100 employees working at the company. Hence, the biggest messaging services on the planet a user to employee ratio of over 12.9 million to one. This is the largest ratio of users to employees in the world. Just 50 employees were working at WhatsApp when they got over 1 billion users! That is an employee to user ration of over 200 million to one! The increase in the number of people hired at the company came after Facebook acquired the company to create WhatsApp for business and other WhatsApp services.

(Source: Wired)

4. WhatsApp groups can now have 256 participants at once:

WhatsApp groups are an easy way to connect to large groups of people for any purpose, sharing images, videos, and voice notes with everyone at the same time. These groups can be accessed and entered via invites, or even URLs and QR codes. However, these groups can prove to be dangerous as well, as we will see in the critiques section of this listicle.

(Source: Independent)

5. WhatsApp has become a powerful force in the news business:

Owing to WhatsApp’s capacity for letting users share anything and everything from documents to URLs to videos, WhatsApp has become an amazing platform for sharing news. Unfortunately, since all this news is user-generated and shared, there is no way to verify this information, and that can lead to a lot of issues. This gets exasperated by the fact that in some countries like Malaysia, nearly 50% of all news is obtained from WhatsApp. This may be because, in countries like Turkey or Brazil, it can be perilous to express views on Facebook or other social media, hence people choose to talk in closed private groups.

(Source: BBC)

6. The founder chose the name WhatsApp in a second:

Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp, created the messaging service without thinking of a name before it was published. He stated that he “Created the name in about a minute,” creating a pun on the popular phrase “What’s up,” as that was the message that he sent to his co-founder Brian Acton as a way to test the service.

(Source: WhatsApp)

7. WhatsApp grew at three times the speed than the growth of Facebook:

The growth rate of WhatsApp was one of the highest in the business of applications, with the first four years showing the highest rate of growth. The rate, when measured up against other popular social media platforms, is phenomenal. WhatsApp’s rate of growth was nearly three than that of Facebook, 7.63 times more than Twitter, and eight times more than Skype’s growth rate.

(Source: Forbes)

8. The only two social media platforms with more user accounts than WhatsApp are Facebook and YouTube:

Social Media platforms have become very ubiquitous in today’s world, with platforms like YouTube and Facebook coming pre-installed with modern smartphones. While these platforms have been active for many years, their userbase is at the same level as WhatsApp after it’s a comparatively shorter lifetime. They are the only two platforms with a larger userbase than Facebook-owned WhatsApp. It is slightly unsettling that two of the biggest userbases in the world belong to Facebook’s services.

(Source: Business of Apps)

9. WhatsApp has been the most downloaded smartphone application for four consecutive years:

When it comes to the success of an application, the best metric to measure it by is the number of unique downloads that it gets over the period of a year. WhatsApp has been the most downloaded application over Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store for the period of 2016 to 2019. The other four applications tend to be Facebook, YouTube, and Tik Tok.

(Source: Visual Capitalist)

10. The average user checks WhatsApp more than 23 times per day:

The average WhatsApp user checks their messages nearly once every single hour. This counts up to nearly 700 times a month. This is a higher engagement rate than almost any other application, with only Tik Tok coming anywhere close to the same engagement rate.

(Source: Economic Times)

11. 58% of its user’s use the application at least five times over the course of a single day:

WhatsApp has become a staple on most smartphones in the world, with 89% of people using the application on a daily basis. However, even so, more than 58% of the users use the application at least five times over the course of a single day. Even more surprisingly, 21% of these users use the application more than 12 times in a day, nearly 1.5 times per waking hour!

(Source: Mashable)

Business Statistics

Now that we understand the people that use the application, it would behoove us to look at the money that these people bring in for WhatsApp. We will try to examine the trends that the business side of WhatsApp has and then look at the prediction that analysts have for its future.

12. Facebook purchased WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars:

WhatsApp became the most popular messaging service within four years of its launch in 2009. The engagement rate of the application only grew from that point on, getting higher with the countries of India and the Middle – East. Mark Zuckerberg said that WhatsApp was the only application that had a higher engagement rate than Facebook itself, so they bought it. Facebook paid out $12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash, and another $3 billion in restricted stock units. This totals up to 19 billion dollars, making the founders of the company billionaires.

Bonus Fact: Theoretically, each employee would have gotten 350 million dollars from the sale, the highest in corporate history, but they only got a higher paying job at Facebook and around 3.5 million dollars each for the original 15 employees for the company.

(Source: xconomy)

13. WhatsApp’s valuation is more than the GDP of more than 80 countries, including Honduras and Jamaica!:

WhatsApp was valued at over 19 billion dollars by Facebook when it was purchased two years ago. The valuation rose higher when Facebook started to release their monetization schemes for WhatsApp. The valuation of WhatsApp currently is higher than almost 80 countries of the world. These countries include countries like Honduras, Jamaica, and Rwanda.

(Source: xconomy)

14. WhatsApp’s CEO keeps a note saying “No ads, No games, No gimmicks” on his desk:

WhatsApp appeal for its users comes in large part from its simplicity. It is just a messaging service, without any other bells and whistles attached to it. This is not a coincidence since the founders of WhatsApp decided from the very beginning that their application would have “No ads, No games, No gimmicks.” Brian even wrote a note to Jan saying the same, which still sits on Jan’s desk to date. Mark Zuckerberg also stated that WhatsApp would remain ad-free entirely after its Facebook acquisition.  

(Source: Business Insider)

15. The amount of money spent on marketing by WhatsApp is zero:

WhatsApp has more than 1.5 billion monthly users, which keep growing every single day. According to most estimates, the userbase might even grow to 2 billion by the end of 2021. These numbers are made more amazing by the fact that WhatsApp has never had a PR or a marketing department and has not spent a single dollar on marketing in its entire lifetime.

(Source: Business of Apps)

16. WhatsApp is to be used as a launchpad for Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra: Cryptocurrencies are touted as the future of the world economy and as complete hokey, depending on the person you ask. However, according to Facebook, cryptocurrencies are worth investing millions into. They’re working on creating a cryptocurrency named Libra, which is currently being managed and designed by a team of people under the leadership of PayPal’s former director. The currency, to be a stable coin, would be backed by the treasuries of various countries and would be shared among users, and also redeemed, exclusively via WhatsApp.

(Source: Financial Times)

Critiques about WhatsApp

Not all facts and statistics about WhatsApp are positive, and here we will look at the adverse facts and statistics about WhatsApp.

17. Spread of fake news and hoaxes on WhatsApp groups, especially in India:

Due to WhatsApp groups’ feature of letting messages reach up to 256 people instantly, it can be beneficial for many purposes but can lead to horrible consequences as well. These drawbacks were seen in India, where at least 18 deaths in 2018 were attributed to the spread of fake news via WhatsApp. One of the most egregious incidents was when two men, on a road trip, stopped by a village in Assam to ask for directions. They were seen asking a child for directions and were filmed doing the same. Suspicions about them being child abductors spread fast, and they were soon surrounded by a mob that beat them to death with sticks and stones.

(Source: CBC)

18. Privacy concerns regarding the application caused both ts founders to leave Facebook:

Any application that is trusted by its users to send their personal details, pictures, documents, and even their location is going to have to be extremely secure and serious about user’s privacy. Since the inception of WhatsApp, its founders have maintained that their primary concern would always be the privacy of their users. However, after the takeover by Facebook, even despite reassuring its users that their privacy would continue to be the top priority, in 2019, both founders elected to leave the company due to irreconcilable differences over the application’s operation.

(Source: Independent)

19. Illegal WhatsApp campaigns heavily influenced the 2018 Brazilian Elections:

Owing to WhatsApp’s ability to reach a massive number of people at the same time, it is the tool of choice for a lot of political campaigners. However, this can be considered illegal campaigning by a lot of the nation’s election commissions. Like in Brazil’s 2018 elections, when some businessmen led a smear campaign worth million on WhatsApp, which was considered by the commission as out-of-campaign support, which is illegal.

(Source: Folha de S.Paulo)

20. 43% of all NHS staff were disciplined for using WhatsApp and other consumer IM services:

NHS and other healthcare professionals are expected to maintain the utmost respect for the privacy of their patients, which can be compromised by the use of IM services, primarily WhatsApp, since it is the most commonly used IM application in the world. There have been instances when unapproved files and documents have been sent over WhatsApp to individuals, and since the application is a product delivered by a private corporation, there is no way to monitor it for the NHS officials. Nearly 43% of all NHS employees were disciplined for using WhatsApp during their office hours.

(Source: Practice Business)

21. ISIS uses WhatsApp to sell underage sex slaves and even plan attacks:

WhatsApp’s end to end encryption might not be the best form of encryption when it comes to defending privacy. It is, however, advantageous when the numbers can be changed within a few days, not allowing for any form of sustained attack. End to end encryption is instrumental in preventing leak of data for short periods of time. This makes it the tool of choice for many terrorist organizations in the world, especially ISIS. The terror outfit used the application to sell underage sex slaves, bombs, and other weapons to their buyers. They even used the application to plan several terror attacks, including the 2015 Paris attacks, the 2017 Westminster attacks, and even the 2017 Stockholm attacks. The intelligence agencies of the various countries stated that WhatsApp’s encryption algorithm is tough to crack within the short time that these organizations change their numbers.

(Source: Independent)

22. Jeff Bezos’s phone was hacked using a malicious file sent over WhatsApp using the Saudi Prince’s official account:

Even the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, is not immune to being hacked and having his data retrieved by malicious individuals. In January 2020, Jeff Bezos’s personal team revealed that his phone was hacked by a file sent via WhatsApp. The file was sent through the Saudi Prince’s official account and hence was trusted by Bezos. He downloaded the file, and within hours had most of his files compromised.

(Source: The Guardian)

23. WhatsApp was used to hack into the phone of multiple individuals in the Indian media and politics:

On October 30, 2019, Facebook confirmed that an Israeli organization named NSO, who created a software named Pegasus, make specifically to hack into the user’s phone via WhatsApp. The software would be shared as an innocuous-looking file, which would then enable NSO to monitor the infected phone’s usage. Ghana’s National Communication Authority stated that Pegasus could only be deployed with the express permission of the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

(Source: Huffington Post)

Cool Features

A social interaction application lives or dies on the wealth of features that it offers to its users, and WhatsApp is no exception. It may not be the most feature-heavy application on the market, but that fact usually is touted as a positive by its fans since they appreciate the simplicity of WhatsApp. However, there still are some amazing things you can do with WhatsApp, which we will look at right now.

24. WhatsApp stores information about the amount of data that a user shares with their contacts:

If you have you ever wondered which one of your friends have you been talking to, and sharing with, then WhatsApp has your back. The mobile applications for both android and iPhone devices store the information about the amount of data that the user sends to their various contacts on WhatsApp. All the user has to do is to go to settings -> account -> storage usage. Here the user will find detailed information about the amount of data that is exchanged between contacts on WhatsApp.

(Source: WhatsApp)

25. Create calendar events directly from the WhatsApp chat:

Given the ubiquitous nature of WhatsApp in the world, it is no surprise that a lot of events, from formal meetings to a movie get together, are planned on WhatsApp messages. Hence, WhatsApp’s feature which allows users to create calendar events directly from the WhatsApp chat itself. When the user receives or sends a message with a date and time in it. The user can click on the date and time, which will bring up the default calendar application from the user’s phone and will create an event and reminder for that particular date and time, along with the text in the message as the event details.

(Source: WhatsApp)

26. Send WhatsApp messages without ever opening the application:

Once you are tired of writing messages with your fingers, you can progress onto asking your artificial assistant to send messages for you. WhatsApp is fully integrated with Siri and the Google Assistant. All the user has to do is saw “Siri/OK Google send a WhatsApp to XYZ saying that ‘Your Message.’” This will send a message to XYZ without ever opening the application.

Bonus Fact: Sending a message this way will not update the last seen of the user if that is desirable for any reason.

(Source: WhatsApp)

27. Create a private chat with yourself to save notes, images, and voice notes on WhatsApp:

A handy feature that WhatsApp gives its users is the ability to create chats with themselves. These chats are stored only on the user’s phone. These chats can be used to store any data that the user desires. Notes using texts, images, locations, even voice notes to themselves. Just go to a new message and type in your own number and create the modern iteration of a diary!

(Source: WhatsApp)

28. Hide your phone number while using WhatsApp:

Using WhatsApp entails registration on the service by providing them with your phone number. The phone number is verified by sending an OTP to the provided number, which is then entered into the application. However, here is where a user can trick WhatsApp into showing another number. Just enter an alternate number that can be accessed to obtain the OTP from. The amount that receives the OTP will show up when you send a message to anyone. However, the sim card can then be removed, and any other sim card can be put in. Voila! Your number is hidden from everyone you message on WhatsApp!

(Source: India Today)

29. Use font modifiers to change the text messages you send:

Sending messages on WhatsApp using the default Helvetica Neue font can get rather dull. Or the user might find themselves in a situation where they need to chant the style of the font to emphasize the point about anything. WhatsApp has built-in features for styling the text. These modifiers are *for bold*, ~for strikethrough~, _for italics_, ‘’’for monospace font’’’. There is even a third-party application called ‘Bluewords’ that allows fonts other than Helvetica Neue, including bright blue and bold text.

(Source: WhatsApp)

30. Set custom tones for every individual chat or group:

If you’re tired of looking at your notification tray to check who texted you, then you can assign notification tones for every single individual contact and group. These tones will only play if the individual texts you, and the default tone will only play for chats for which sounds aren’t assigned. Chats can even be selectively muted and set to vibrate, to focus only on the essential notifications.

(Source: WhatsApp)

31. Restrict the information that someone can see about you on WhatsApp:

Putting information online can be a challenging prospect for a lot of people. This fact will delight any such socially awkward people reading this listicle because there is a natural built-in feature that WhatsApp provides, which allows users to hide any and all information about them from all users that have their numbers. All one has to do is to go to settings -> privacy -> and then change the settings for the information that the user would want to hide.

(Source: WhatsApp)

32. Send your live location to anyone you care about:

This might be one of the most commonly known features of WhatsApp, but it is a handy feature, nonetheless. By pressing the attach button, the user can decide to send their location for a limited period of time or for an indefinite period of time. This location can be live or can just be the current location. The location can be sent to an individual or a group, or even to multiple people.

(Source: WhatsApp)

33. WhatsApp supports peer to peer payments via UPI only in India:

As we have seen, WhatsApp is immensely popular in India, with nearly half a billion users exchanging messages and information on the platform. After the Indian Government’s push to move towards digital payments based on smartphones rather than traditional cash or card payments, to reduce paper and plastic wastage, WhatsApp decided to enter the payments market themselves. WhatsApp created their WhatsApp Payments plugin, which utilizes the Universal Payment Index to enable peer to peer payments directly from user’s accounts.

(Source: Times of India)

Sources and References

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25 Interesting PayPal Stats and Facts https://www.ebool.com/hub/paypal-stats-and-facts/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:22:41 +0000 https://hub.pfind.com/?p=404 Anyone who has looked to buy anything online must be familiar with the world’s most popular payment gateway, PayPal. The company was founded in…

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Anyone who has looked to buy anything online must be familiar with the world’s most popular payment gateway, PayPal. The company was founded in January 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA, right at the heart of Silicon Valley. It was the first significant payment gateway on the internet and was able to capture a vast market, owing to its selling point. They focused their attention on making the service quick, safe, and secure for all its users since this was the advent of online payments, and people were understandably skeptical about the whole process.

PayPal grew quickly and is now currently one of the biggest, most recognizable brands in the world. They rank 77th on the amount of traffic they get on their website, which does not take into account the umpteen number of websites that use their web plugin to power their online sales.

Here we will take a look into some of the most surprising facts and numbers about PayPal, followed by looking at the business side of the whole company.

Quick Facts

The payments made with PayPal are instantly credited into the PayPal wallet of the receiver. So, let’s make like these quick payments and quickly look at some interesting facts about the most famous payment gateway online.

  • PayPal was voted one of the worst business ideas of 1999
  • The number of transactions processed by PayPal in 2019 was 12.4 billion
  • PayPal is available for use with 26 currencies and over 100 countries
  • If PayPal was a bank, it would be the 21 largest bank in the United States of America
  • The total amount processed by PayPal in 2019 was 711.36 billion dollars

Fun Facts

Before we get into the nitty-gritty of the numbers behind PayPal, let’s take a look into some of the fun little facts about the payment gateway that you may not have known. We will try to skirt the commonly known things and try to find obscure details about PayPal.

1. PayPal’s background engineering was created by Elon Musk:

Elon Musk is most famously known for are his two high profile companies, Tesla and SpaceX. However, these weren’t the first companies he founded. The first-ever proper company Elon Musk created was simply called X.com. This was a payment gateway that allowed people to directly transfer money to another individual on the platform, without going through any banks in between. He teamed up with another company hosted at Confinity, which used an algorithm to ratify a transaction with any financial institution. This merger is where PayPal was born.

(Source: Forbes)

2. Elon Musk had to borrow money for paying his rent after the sale of PayPal:

It might seem stupid, but Elon Musk, who got nearly 180 million dollars from the sale, had to borrow money to pay his rent after he ended up spending all of the money. However, he didn’t just spend the money on himself and getting a fancy house or car, he used the money to start his other three companies, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity.

(Source: Startups)

3. People are 54% more likely to make an online purchase when there is the option to pay via PayPal:

Owing to PayPal’s long history on the internet, and nearly no security breaches and concerns like other payment gateways, it is very highly trusted in the e-commerce industry. In fact, it has been shown that there is a 54% increased chance of a buyer making a purchase if there is the option of paying via PayPal. The other side of this fact is that 59% of all buyers end up rejecting a sale if they can’t pay by PayPal.

(Source: PayPal)

4. PayPal accidentally credited more than 92 quadrillion dollars to Chris Reynolds:

The PayPal wallet is where all the daily transactions that a PayPal account takes in are stored before being transferred into the user’s accounts. Hence it is imperative to keep an accurate track of the wallet and the money that filters through it. A man from Pennsylvania, Chris Reynold, was doing precisely that when he noticed a suspicious charge on his PayPal wallet. The wallet was holding 92,233,720,368,547,800 dollars, which is 92 quadrillion dollars and some spare change. PayPal owned up to their mistake and agreed to pay 9200 dollars to the charity of Chris’s choice.

(Source: CNN)

5. PayPal was voted one of the worst business ideas of 1999:

Every year newest business ideas are taken, and their scope of success is calculated, after which they are rated from best to worst. On this scale, PayPal was voted to be one of the worst business ideas in the year of its inception, 1999. Fast forward 20 years, and right now, it is a multi-billion dollar company, with each of its founders having learned hundreds of million dollars from it.

(Source: 60 minutes)

6. Chad Hurley, one of the founders of YouTube, helped design the original PayPal logo:

Chad Hurley is widely known as being one of three co-founders of the popular video-sharing site that you may have heard of, YouTube. However, before Chad went on to create a cultural touchstone, he was a senior employee at PayPal. In fact, he was the lead designer of both PayPal’s old and new logo. That’s a fun connection between two of the most prominent applications on the internet right now.

(Source: The Guardian)

7. PayPal lost millions of dollars in the first year of their operation due to their referral programs:

PayPal’s current referral program gives every new user $5 when they sign up with a referral code and then a further $5 for every one of their friends that use their referral code. However, in it’s first few years, PayPal’s referral program gave $20 for every use of the referral codes. This program cost them an estimated 14 million dollars in loss in their first year itself, though their userbase saw immense growth because of this program, and it has paid for itself many times over.

(Source: ReferralCandy)

8. PayPal has a small business loans division that gives out small loans to growing businesses:

PayPal might not be an actual bank, but it does have a small business loan division. This division helps small business owners get off of their feet and grow their size. These loans typically have a lower rate of interest than traditional banks, and hence are very highly regarded in the small business community.

(Source: Business Insider)

Usage Statistics

PayPal is used daily by millions of people for purchases worth billions. Here we will look at the number of people that are using the website for their payment needs, and how the gateway caters to them all. Before we start, did you know that PayPal was bought by eBay when they IPOed in 2002? This led to a massive boost in PayPal’s userbase since eBay was already a well-established name in the internet community.

9. The number of transactions processed by PayPal in 2019 was 12.4 billion:

PayPal is currently accepted at over 87.5% of all online retailers, with nearly 98% of all freelancers using it as their primary mode of payment, it is no surprise then that the volume of the transaction is processed via PayPal is in the billions. 12.4 billion in 2019 to be very exact.

(Source: PayPal)

10. The number of daily transactions processed by PayPal is 33.97 million:

Since e-commerce websites are active over the entire world, at all times, and since there are freelancers working across the globe at all times, PayPal sees traffic every second of the day. These transactions, on average, total to 33.97 million every single day. 

(Source: PayPal)

11. 58% of all Americans use PayPal, which make up 14% of all online payments across the United States:

PayPal’s strongest userbase is in the United States, where almost 58% of American adults use the service for their online payment needs. These individuals make up nearly 14% of all the online transactions that take place online in the United States, with it being the second most significant percentage of transactions. The most significant portion is the Bank of America, which is the largest bank in America.

(Source: Logica)

12. Users must keep in mind that it is impossible to delete one’s PayPal history without deleting the entire account:

An individual’s PayPal history can be very revealing and personal, given that it would contain details about all the online purchases that they have made. Considering this fact, it may be prudent to know the fact that it is currently impossible to delete the history of transactions from a PayPal account. The only way to erase this history is to delete one’s entire PayPal account.

(Source: Business Insider)

13. PayPal grew its mobile payments market by 52% in just the first quarter of 2019:

The global mobile payments market has been growing rapidly, seeing explosive growth in both developed and developing markets. PayPal has been the front runner for the push for mobile payments in the western world. In fact, the mobile payment version of PayPal grew by 52% in just the first quarter of 2019.

(Source: Pyments)

14. PayPal’s small loans division paid out more than 650,000 loans to more than 225,000 unique sellers:

A lot of businesses require the kind of small short term loans that PayPal offers, either for financial management or for working capital. This is evident from the fact that nearly 225,000 unique sellers have taken more than 650,000 loans from PayPal’s small loans service. These loans total up to a volume of more than 10 billion dollars. 

(Source: Business Insider)

15. PayPal is available for use with 26 currencies and over 100 countries:

PayPal is accepted across the world, in over 100 countries. These countries use 26 supported currencies, which consist of all the major currencies of the world. The countries whose currencies aren’t supported by PayPal can default to use the US dollar or any other currency that they need to use for the payment online. The good thing about PayPal is that it is approved for use by the federal reserve of all countries it operates in, so transforming one currency to another is not an issue for PayPal.

(Source: PayPal)

Business Statistics

Now that we have looked at the various facts related to the usage of PayPal, and the users that have built the platform up, it is time to look at the business that PayPal does, and the capital it raises for a variety of purposes.

16. PayPal’s current market cap is 125.8 billion dollars:

The market cap refers to the total valuation of a company, which is calculated by multiplying the total cost of a share of the company with the total number of stocks in circulation. After PayPal’s IPO in 2002, its valuation was around 1.5 billion dollars, which was the cost of its acquisition by eBay.

(Source: Forbes)

17. If PayPal was a bank, it would be the 21st largest bank in the United States of America:

While PayPal might not be a bank in the traditional sense, it does do a lot of things a bank does. Ratifying and enabling transactions, allowing for investments and even for steady payments over any period of time. However, if PayPal was an actual bank, the number of its user accounts would make it the 21st largest bank in the US.

(Source: Business Insider)

18. PayPal earned $17.77 billion in revenue in 2019, up 17% from 2018:

PayPal takes a small cut from business transactions that are made on the platform, usually around 1% – 2% of the total value. This is the primary source of revenue for the company, though it also has multiple other revenue streams, like investments into financial institutions. PayPal earned nearly 17.77 billion dollars in revenue in the year 2019, which was 17% more than the income they earned in 2018.

(Source: PayPal)

19. The total amount processed by PayPal in 2019 was 711.36 billion dollars:

As we have seen, PayPal processes a large number of transactions every single day. These transactions, big and small, add up quickly, and in 2019 was equal to nearly 711.36 billion dollars. For comparison, this is more than six times the total personal wealth of the richest man on Earth, Jeff Bezos. The amount that gets transacted every single year could fund nearly every African nation’s food distribution programs.

(Source: PayPal)

20. In eBay’s last year of owning PayPal, 45% of all revenue on eBay was generated via PayPal:

As we discussed previously, eBay was the owner of PayPal until the year 2014, for the first 15 years of its lifetime. By the time that eBay split PayPal up to be its own company, nearly 45% of transactions on eBay were generated via PayPal. Even after PayPal and eBay split up, it counted for almost 40% of all transactions, slightly lower since eBay stopped putting it over all other payment platforms.

(Source: Macro Trends)

21. An average of 22,557 dollars are transacted on PayPal every second:

With the amount that gets transacted on PayPal every single second, one can buy a Honda Civic or a private island for at least one week, or even invest it into a fledgling new company as an angel investor and turn it into millions. The fascinating aspect of this money is that this amount was just 7000 dollars in 2014 when PayPal became an independent company.

(Source: PayPal)

22. The average PayPal user has 485 dollars in their accounts, compared to only 196 dollars in cash:

As we have seen, PayPal has hundreds of millions of users, with tens of millions of them using the gateway on a regular basis. These people have around 485 dollars in their accounts on an average, as compared to $1209 on their Venmo account. This is more than twice the amount that the average American carries out in cash in their wallet on a daily basis.

(Source: Logica)

23. PayPal was the first payments giant to drop Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra:

Libra is the cryptocurrency that the social media giant Facebook is currently working on developing. The currency got a lot of attention from the various financial institutes and government organizations, many of whom even pledged $10 million for the initial coin IPO to inject value into the stable coin. However, after Facebook’s constant battle for securing it’s users data and losing, many of these institutions have backed off from their commitments, with PayPal being the first organization to do so.

(Source: BBC)

24. PayPal went public in 2002, and grew its stock by 55% on NASDAQ in the first year:

PayPal’s public IPO was very highly hyped and anticipated by everyone in the financial world. It was going to be one of the first companies of the dot com bubble to go public, and the enthusiasm for its release was seen in the number of investors it drew in their first year itself. The growth seen in the stock on NASDAQ was nearly 55% in the first year itself, which is among the highest increases seen in IPOs across the years.

(Source: Richtopia)

25. PayPal’s small loans division has paid more than $10 billion in its lifetime:

The small loans division of PayPal is one of the most profitable endeavors of the company, with the volume of loans it has given out through its lifetime exceeding 10 billion dollars in 2018. These loans earn nearly 23% of all of PayPal’s revenue.

(Source: Business Insider)

26. On average, PayPal pays out around $50,000 per every small loan:

The average loan given by banks in the US, according to the US Small Business Administration (SBA), is $420,000, which is more than 8 times the size of the average loan given by PayPal. This makes PayPal the primary choice for small businesses that are only looking to get relatively smaller loans to just boost their business a little bit and are not looking for aggressive expansion.

(Source: Business Insider)

Data Sources and References

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  22. Logica
  23. BBC
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  25. Business Insider
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Airbnb 25 Stats and Facts https://www.ebool.com/hub/airbnb-stats-and-facts/ Sat, 18 Apr 2020 04:18:04 +0000 https://hub.pfind.com/?p=398 In 2007, two roommates living in San Francisco couldn’t afford to pay rent. So, they decided to put three air mattresses in their loft,…

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In 2007, two roommates living in San Francisco couldn’t afford to pay rent. So, they decided to put three air mattresses in their loft, converting it into an area where three people could live for the period of a conference, which had seen all the hotels in the area being booked. The pair also offered breakfast to their guests. They created a website, airbreadandbreakfast.com, for the same. Once they realized the value of the idea they had, they decided to create a company that would eventually become the most highly valued start-up of all time.

In this article, we will look at some of the facts and statistics related to this immensely successful company. We will then take a look at some of the weirdest places that you can book on Airbnb, then follow it up by looking at places that can cost hundreds of thousand dollars for just a single night!

Quick Facts

Booking on Airbnb can be as easy as picking a house, and then paying for it immediately. Quick and convenient, just like this section of the listicle!

  1. Paris was the first non-American city for Airbnb to host a home.
  2. Airbnb hosted nearly 100,000 guests during the Rio World Cup.
  3. The first capital that was raised by Airbnb was via selling cereal for Barack Obama!
  4. Airbnb hosts have earned over 65 billion dollars via the platform.
  5. Over 100 cities across the world see more than 1 million Airbnb travelers each year.
  6. The air in the name comes from the fact that the founders rented out their air mattresses.

Quirky and Beautiful Places on Airbnb

Airbnb’s unique model of allowing anyone to host their homes on the platform allows for some genuinely wacky and quirky places to be rented. Here we will look at some of the wackiest and somehow beautifully weird locations that can be booked for a vacation on Airbnb. Keep in mind that this list was created in February of 2020, so there might help me some even more creative homes that one can rent when you read this!

1. You can rent an authentic Igloo made of snow for just $121/night!

Igloos are the traditional houses for any people living in the coldest regions of the world. The igloo is usually made up of ice blocks and can keep its insides more than 15 degrees warmer than the outside. You can rent an authentic igloo like the ones used by Eskimos. The igloo has 2 warm thermal sleeping bags and a fire pit to keep warm, along with LED lights. It is even possible to see the northern lights if you’re fortunate. The owner also has an apartment with heating available at all times of the day in case the guests feels like they cannot adjust to the cold of the igloo.

(Source: Airbnb)

2. An actual hut made of mud, with no electric lighting, heating, or indoor plumbing:

If you’re not feeling up to the task of living in a fully furnished city home, and are tired of living in the 21st century, then you can always book this hut made of mud! This mud hut was hand-built by the hosts and their friends and family and is in the backyard of the hosts’ home. The hosts promise to provide the guest with home-brewed beer. The hut does not have any electric wiring whatsoever, with the only light coming in from the skylight built into the roof of the home. The hut is heated using a fireplace, for which the hosts are happy to provide the firewood. The guests can roam the gardens and pick berries, forgetting about their civilized life altogether.

(Source: Airbnb)

3. Live life in the 800 AD in a Tipi and get 4 tickets to the Music Festival in Ponderosa:

A tipi is the traditional housing of the native American people, which consists of a triangular wooden frame with cloth and leather stretched over it. If you’ve been fascinated with the native American history and culture, then you will love this particular listing. It promises to provide the renter with a private six-person tipi, which would be pitched on the banks of the Kettle River. However, the main draw of this listing comes not from living in the 800 AD, but in the fact that the tipis are in the middle of the freshest new independent music festivals in Ponderosa, British Columbia. The package also includes a private camping ground, parking, and picnic table. It also includes four passes for the festival.

(Source: Airbnb)

4. Private Island can be yours for just $695/night:

Have you ever read the news about a celebrity buying yet another private island for their personal news and felt really bad that you couldn’t do the same? This listing might cheer you up in that case! The Bird Island is listed on Airbnb for just $695 a night for one person, with $100 extra for every other guest. The listing is the entire bird Island, along with its neighbouring uninhabited islands for your own personal use. There is no one else except the guests on the island, not even the staff. The guests must cook and clean themselves, but when the prize is a private island with no other human for tens of miles around, it is definitely worth it!

(Source: Airbnb)

5. You can rent an 1870s windmill in Amsterdam:

Amsterdam is known for its singular beauty, its hospitable people, and the peace and calm of its countryside. One of the best ways to experience this serene countryside is by staying in a building that was built in the 1870s for use by a miller. The windmill eventually stopped being used for milling and lay unused until the current owner bought it and turned it into a comfortable house for 6 people. The windmill features its original architecture with 3 beds, Wi-Fi, a balcony, and a garden. Guests can even rent bicycles and go on a biking tour of the nearby countryside and enjoy the picturesque locale. 

(Source: Airbnb)

6. Argghh Matey, yer could book a pirate’s ship on ArrrrBnB:

We have seen private islands and igloos for rent. We will go on to see chalets and mansions worth hundreds of thousand dollars with top-notch luxury. However, probably the most unique and weird property that one can book on Airbnb is an authentic pirate ship that currently sits on the Mississippi River. The ship has 3 bedrooms and can house 6 people comfortably. The ship has modern plumbing and kitchen spaces and can host up to 15 people for the purposes of a party. The ship even comes with a TV, a fireplace to stay warm, and even high-speed Wi-Fi! The only thing that the ship doesn’t do is sail, as it has been permanently grounded and supported to ensure that guests don’t have to have sea legs to enjoy their stay.

(Source: Airbnb)

Expensive and Luxurious places on Airbnb

Airbnb is usually the go-to for people looking to vacation away from the structure of a staffed hotel or without being bothered by other individuals. These options are usually always cheaper than their equivalent hotel rooms. However, the locations mentioned in this section are not your run of the mill Airbnbs with a host catering to your needs. These locations are the most expensive places that can be rented on Airbnb as of the time of writing. These are villas, estates, and even entire islands for rent by groups of multiple people!

7. The most expensive property to be rented on Airbnb costs over $157,000 each night!:

Yes, that’s right. A single night in this place can cost you as much as the yearly salary of a Silicon Valley engineer. However, you do get full value for your money. The property is an entire island that has space for 52 guests, who are waited for hand on foot by a staff of 100 people. The island is called Nukutepipi and belongs to the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil who transformed the island into the perfect getaway for a billionaire. The island has everything, from a theatre to complimentary jet skis, to a team of gourmet chefs and a team of butlers to bring it to you. The island can only be booked for 7 days at a time, costing around 1.1 million dollars in total.

(Source: Airbnb)

8. River Lodge in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa allows you to live in luxury and watch leopards for just $65,115 per night:

The Sabi Sands Game Reserve in South Africa is the most famous game reserve in all of South Africa. The reserve boasts of the largest density of game population, with the Big 5, The Lion, The Leopard, The Cheetah, The Elephants, and The Cape Buffalo being represented strongly. If one wants to live the life of a billionaire while going to view these magnificent creatures, and one has around 400,000 dollars to throw around for a vacation, the River Lodge is the place to go. It can house up to 36 guests in 18 bedrooms, each with their own bathroom attached. The bedrooms all have king-sized beds and a private balcony that overlooks unique aspects of The Savannah. The rooms also come equipped with rain-showers, minibars, and a walk-in closet with dual vanities. The master bedroom also features a private pool and a hot tub. Along with all these amenities, the lodge also features 2 fully trained gourmet chefs to prepare all your meals for you, as well as providing a picnic basket to take along with yourself for safaris and other outings. All this and more can be yours for as little as $65,115 a night! The lodge has a 4-day minimum stay requirement.

(Source: Airbnb)

9. Amilla Villa Estate located on the Baa Atoll in the Maldives is available for up to $59,000/night: Do you fancy a luxurious beach escape from your city life? Do you want to sit a mocktail from a coconut while sitting in the lap of opulence? Look no further than the Amilla Villa Estate on the Baa Atoll in the Maldives. This villa estate only has six bedrooms and can host a maximum of twelve guests. There is a staff of 20 associated with the villa, including a chef, a butler, and even a lifeguard in case you desire to use his services. The villa features a fully stocked gourmet kitchen, with a separate breakfast bar, a terrace to sunbath, two pools, indoor and outdoor, and outdoor balconies for all the bedrooms. The Villa also comes with its own private beachfront, where no-one other than the villa residents is allowed to go. There is even a private theatre so you can sit down and enjoy a movie with your friends and family.

(Source: Airbnb)

10. The Stein Residence Ski Lodges in Park City, Utah are rented for $50,000/night:

People pay a hefty amount of money to take ski vacations, but if one goes to this particular Stein Residence Ski Lodge, you can expect the absolute last word in opulent luxury. The lodge sits right on top of the ski route, which flows around the entire chain of properties, making them ski in – ski outhouses. The lodge features an outdoor infinity pool, indoor warm pool, both indoor and outdoor hot tubs, outdoor spa and massage parlor, gourmet kitchens, 5 bedrooms, a Gym, and private access to the ski run. You also get a staff of 15 people waiting on your every need, including a gourmet chef, housekeepers, and a butler. All this will cost you, though! A single night in a Stein Residence lodge can cost as much as 50,000 dollars, with tax separate! Most of these lodges require a minimum period of 5 days to be booked, as the staff and equipment need to be prepared, so a vacation at this luxurious mansion might set you as much as 300,000 dollars back.

(Source: Stein Erikson)

11. The Kinloch Estate in the Acacia Bay New Zealand rents for $34,565 for one night!:

After watching Lord of the Rings, one cannot be faulted for wanting to visit the breathtaking vistas of New Zealand. The best way to experience these vistas is directly from living in the landscape itself, which is exactly what the Kinloch Estate offers to its guests. The estate features 20 bedrooms, with a capacity of housing 56 guests. These guests all get to stay in private villas, most of which have one or two bedrooms. Each villa has its own set of amenities from private terraces, to fully stocked minibars, to even an Alfresco Rain Shower, if one desires to experience nature while lying immersed in a tub of hot water.

(Source: Airbnb)

12. The Hidden Palace in Bali, Indonesia, can be yours for just $32,250 a night!:

Bali has long since been known as a paradise for anyone who loves nature and being in the outdoors. For the nature enthusiasts who desire extreme luxury while going out to look elephants and rhinos, there is The Hidden Palace. The Palace has two outdoor infinity pools, fully equipped chef’s kitchen, dishwasher, ice maker, cable television, integrated sound system, Wi-Fi, air-conditioned bedrooms, security camera – bar/living area, 2 Infinity swimming pools – unheated, Alfresco dining with seating for 10, outdoor living area, sauna bed, sun loungers, mountain bikes. There are a minimum number of walls to allow seamless access from the outside to the inside.

(Source: Airbnb)

13. Contemporary Caribbean Villa on the beach at the Caicos Islands costs $31,050 for a single night: The ocean laps the pristine white sands of the Grace Bay, just steps away from this massive and well-appointed villa situated at the Caicos Islands. This villa features a large infinity pool surrounded by 3 large buildings, with a combined total of 10 bedrooms. These bedrooms can house up to 20 guests, with all of them getting private balconies with unique vistas of the Atlantic Ocean. The villa can be host to a small private wedding or birthday party, with an event manager available to plan any and all events. They even provide a professional sommelier if the guests desire to have a tequila or wine tasting. Not all of the features of the villa can be mentioned in this short article, but all of them will set you back nearly 31,050 dollars for each night.

(Source: Airbnb)

14. La Chartreuse de Cos d’Estournel is a castle in Saint-Estèphe, France and costs $29,690 per night to rent:

A full staff, vintage wine collection, and authentic French architecture transform the Cos d’Estournel vineyard into a fairytale. Roam the stately mansion with antique furnishings and chandeliers, walk the formal gardens with decorative fountains and tasting nooks, and observe every aspect of the historic vineyard. A full spa, library, and pools add diversions, and charming Bordeaux is your playground.

(Source: Airbnb)

Facts and Statistics

Now that we understand the weird and opulent side of Airbnb, we can take a look at the business side of the operation. Here we will mention the various statistics and facts about the company that you may not have known about the multi-billion dollar company. 

15. Airbnb has been valued at 38 billion dollars according to the most recent reports:

Airbnb is one of the most successful start-ups in the world, with only Uber and Xiaomi being valued higher than it. As of 2018, Airbnb purchased the last minute hotel booking website, hoteltonight.com, the release of documents that the deal caused revealed that Airbnb was valued at nearly 35 billion dollars. This was 10 billion dollars more than their earlier valuation of 25 billion dollars when they managed to raise 1.5 billion dollars in a private funding round, the biggest of the time. However, Airbnb surpassed all expectations when in 2019, they paid out dividends to their shareholders, revealing in the process that their company has been valued at an astounding 38 billion dollars, marking it as the third most profitable in the world, far ahead of their hotel counterparts.

(Source: Vox)

16. There are more than 7 million listings available across the globe:

To understand the rapid spread of Airbnb in today’s world, the best statistic to keep in mind is the total number of listing across the world. Airbnb has steadily increased the number of hosts that host properties on its platform, which went from just the founder’s old air mattresses to much more than 7 million listings across the world. There are over 3 million people who list their properties on Airbnb. Except for homes and rooms for rent on Airbnb, there are even 40,000 experiences listed on the platform.

(Source: Airbnb)

17. Airbnb has been adopted by hosts in over one hundred thousand cities:

The 7 million listings on Airbnb are spread out over 100,000 cities, in over 220 countries, across the world, with a majority of these listings being in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The most commonly listed kind of property on Airbnb are one-bedroom apartments, with the second most typical property being spare bedrooms in standalone houses. Airbnb’s most recent addition to the platform is ‘Experiences,’ which entail hosts leading the guests through a specific activity or experience, like pottery or even samurai sword arts. These experiences can be found in over 1,000 cities across the world.

(Source: Airbnb)

18. Airbnb was one of the first American companies to do business in Cuba after the Obama administration lifted business restrictions:

Cuba has been under a commercial, economic, and financial embargo by the United States of America since 1958. This embargo completely envelopes all businesses and exports to Cuba, except for food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies. However, in 2015, the Obama administration relaxed the embargo to allow some businesses to operate offices and services in Havana, Cuba. Airbnb took advantage of this relaxation to be one of the first American companies to work in the country. Airbnb stated that they would “aggressively expand” in Cuba, and soon were drawing nearly 60 million dollars in revenue from Havana alone. The country welcomed the tremendous boom in business, as homeowners found a steady source of income owing to Havana’s tourism economy. However, Airbnb saw a fall in revenue after the Trump administration tightened these restrictions again.

(Source: Fortune)

19. Airbnb can be as much as 50% cheaper than hotels in the same area of a city:

Airbnb is known as a cheaper alternative to hotels. However, the most surprising fact is that in some city Airbnbs can be as much as 50% less expensive than hotel offering to house the same number of people. The average rates for Airbnbs are usually around 12% cheaper than their so-called professional counterparts.

(Source: Quartz)

20. Hotel chains are adopting home shares, and Airbnb allows for booking hotel rooms:

Airbnb was long known to be the major competition for major hotel chains. The two industries, home-sharing and hotel, are fundamentally different as they tend to focus on different types of travelers, with business travelers going for hotel chains and the vacationers opting to go for home-sharing. There have been many articles written about the differences between the two, and about how Airbnb was causing the hotel industry to tank, or even how Airbnb will cause all hotels to shut down. However, instead of one industry killing another, they simply decided to co-exist. Most hotel companies are establishing home-sharing options on their online platforms, and Airbnb has started to allow hotels to put their rooms on their platform.

(Source: Quartz)

21. Airbnb purchased the luxury travel booking agency Luxury Retreats for 200 million dollars:

While Airbnb might be intent on maintaining its image as a platform that allows people to rent out their houses on the cheap and earn some revenue on the side. These houses are typically owned and managed by individuals looking to supplement their income. However, this image took a big hit when Airbnb decided to purchase the luxury villa rental service luxuryretreats.com. This platform excels in owning and operating location which caters to medium-sized groups (up to 50 – 70 people) who want to live in opulent luxury. These properties tend to rent for around 15,000 to 20,000 dollars on average.

(Source: TechCrunch)

22. Airbnb has hosted over 500 million guests across its lifetime: As more and more homes are put for rent on the Airbnb platform, the number of people who can vacation using the platform is rising. In the 11 years of its existence, Airbnb has allowed more than 500 million guests to find houses to stay in for their vacation trips. The number has been rising steadily, with most recent estimates suggesting that, on average, more than 2 million people stay on Airbnb every night.

(Source: Airbnb)

23. There are over 4,900 castles listed on Airbnb, and even 2,400 tree houses!:

Castles are essentially just homes for the royalty, and of course, since they are homes, they can be listed on Airbnb. In fact, there are early 4,900 castles listed on Airbnb at the current moment. These castles come in all sizes from small-sized housing just a couple of people to large-sized housing, nearly 45 – 50 people in complete luxury.  However, castles are not the only weird kinds of houses that are available on the platform. There are even tree houses! There are more than 2,400 treehouses available to rent on Airbnb.

(Source: Airbnb)

24. Each host with Airbnb is covered with insurance worth 1 million dollars:

When inviting strangers from the internet to live in their houses, it is natural to feel apprehension for the safety of the host and house that the guest would be living in. However, to prevent any untoward incident, Airbnb has something called a ‘host guarantee.’ This is a 1 million dollar insurance policy that covers all house rentals in every country around the world, except Japan, which has very stringent rules about rental insurance. Japanese Airbnbs are covered by a different insurance policy, which still covers them for 1 million dollars.

(Source: Airbnb)

25. Airbnb hosted free apartments and houses in New York after Hurricane Sandy hit:

While it might seem that Airbnb has been embroiled in plenty of controversies within the recent few years, it is valuable to know that they still try to do some good in the communities that they have houses in. After hurricane Sandy hit the coast of New York City, it devasted a large amount of infrastructure, causing a large number of people to lose their homes and become homeless. However, Airbnb decided to offer all their properties in New York City for free, obviously with the consent of the owners of the said properties.

(Source: CNN Business)

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eBay – 35 Interesting Stats and Facts https://www.ebool.com/hub/ebay-stats-and-facts/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:09:58 +0000 https://hub.pfind.com/?p=390 Ever since the dawn of the internet, people have sought to buy and sell things over it. To facilitate this need, Pierre Omidyar decided…

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Ever since the dawn of the internet, people have sought to buy and sell things over it. To facilitate this need, Pierre Omidyar decided to create one of the most iconic websites of all time. What started off as a replacement to auction forums online, with a simple yellow and white interface, has become a multi-billion dollar company and is one of the biggest online marketplaces.

Anyone who has been on the internet in the past 25 years knows about eBay and its uncanny knack for bringing together collectors of weird items, and the people who want to sell to them. Here we will look at the bizarre side of eBay, selling everything from stuffed heads to literal bags of poop. Then prepare to feel really nervous about your bank balance as we take a look at the most expensive items ever sold on eBay. Then we’ll finish off with a look at some facts and statistics about eBay that you may not have known.

Quick Facts

  • eBay was initially called AuctionWeb but had to change to eBay due to domain unavailability.
  • eBay has supported over 35,000 charities to date.
  • 71% of all eBay items are shipped for free.
  • Unlike its reputation of an auction site, 80% of all items sold on eBay are new.
  • eBay is the 2nd most-preferred online marketplace, after Amazon.

Weird Stuff

The reputation that eBay has built for itself over the years mainly comes from the number of weird things that get sold for weirdly large sums of money. Search the terms “weird and eBay” together, and you will be greeted with a deluge of search results. This has gotten to the point that eBay has 4 different categories for weird things. Here we’ll explore some of the weirdest examples of sales made on eBay.

1. A 10-year-old girl from Essex tried selling her grandmother on eBay:

Let’s start the list with some light-hearted human trafficking of the elderly. A 10-year-old girl, Zoe Pemberton, decided to sell off her grandmother, Marion Goodall, on eBay. She described her grandma, thusly, “She is annoying but very cuddly.” The grandma was said to be on-board the joke listing. Zoe went on to say that her grandma loved crosswords and long walks. However, when the campaign gained too much public attention, it was removed from the website due to being in violation of its rules on human trafficking. The eBay spokesperson stated to the Independent that they were aware of the act that this was a joke and that it was done in good fun, which they found hilarious as well. Even so, rule violations are rule violations.

(Source: Independent)

2. A Cheetos Shaped like a urinating man, but without hands, unfortunately:

Cheetos are one of god’s perfect snacks. Sometimes these snacks can take many shapes, from a crooked stick to a broken branch. For one lucky man, the Cheetos he was eating gave him one that was shaped like a man that was urinating, sans his hands. The Cheetos amused him so much that he placed the Cheetos on eBay with a starting bid of £0.99. However, the Cheetos quickly caught the fancy of the internet and was finally sold for nearly £1,911! It was purchased by a man that claimed he desired it because of its internet fame.

(Source: 9Gag)

3. VHS Copy of Beauty and the Beast was sold for over 10,000 dollars:

After the release of an article in 2015 in The Independent about how VHS copies of the early 90s Disney’s classics, especially the movie Beauty and the Beast. This sparked a lot of activity on the internet where a lot of people wen through their attic to see if they had a copy of their favorite childhood movies. However, the first person who discovered their Beauty and the Beast copy, it was in massive demand. This copy was sold for nearly 11,000 dollars. However, some people have stated that this was likely due the internet’s propensity to blow things out of proportion and people getting lured by the attractive idea that their attic might have something worth thousands of dollars. Most experts have stated that the copy would have been worth a maximum of merely 400 dollars without the Independent article.

(Source: GQ)

4. The entire life of Ian Usher was sold on eBay for $389,712:

This entry on the list comes with a sizable price tag and a very fascinating story. The story begins with a young man by the name of Ian Usher. In 2008, Ian’s wife left him after being together for years, taking all her belongings. Ian could have just put the rest of her stuff on eBay, earned some extra money, and move on. However, Ian decided he needed a completely fresh start. To this end, he decided to put his entire life up for sale on eBay. This auction included everything he owned, including his house, his car, his parachuting equipment, his jet ski, a recommendation at his job, and a meet and greet with all his friends. The auction quickly gained the fancy of the internet, with bids flowing in quickly to take over the life of Ian Usher. The winning bid was made for 389,172 dollars, which was a little disappointing to him, though he has since found immense success.  Usher went on a trip around the world when he endeavored to complete 100 new experiences in 100 weeks. He even found love again! He then bought an island off of the coast of Panama, where he lived off-grid for 4 years before selling the island and moving back to the cityscape. He now works as a motivational speaker and has published a book as well.  

(Source: Ian Usher)

5. A grilled cheese sandwich with the face of the Virgin Mary blessed upon the face of the bread:

Grilled cheese is truly the food of the gods themselves. However, this wasn’t anymore literal than this particular grilled cheese sandwich. This grilled cheese, made by a woman in the year 1994, who decided to sell it off in the year 2004. The women mentioned that the mold hadn’t grown on it in the 10 years that she had the sandwich. The GoldenPalace.com stated that they wanted to place the winning bid on it, no matter what it took. In the end, they ended up shelling out nearly 28,000 dollars for the sandwich, adding to their collection of other internet cultural objects.

(Source: NBC News)

6. Superstar Scarlett Johnson sells her snotty tissue for charity:

Scarlett Johnson is one of the most successful actresses on the planet. She has appeared in a large number of movies and famously plays the role of Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Once, while promoting her movie, “The Spirit”, on NBC Today, she stated that she caught a cold from her co-star Samuel Jackson and then blew her nose into a tissue that the host, Jay Leno handed to her. The crowd coaxed her into putting the tissue on auction on eBay, and she did in fact put the tissue on eBay and announced that the money would go to a charity working for providing food to the unfortunate classes of society. The bids ended with the highest bid going for 2,050 dollars.

(Source: Today)

7. Someone sold Britney Spears’s used chewing gum on eBay:

Britney Spears has had an eventful life, to say the least. She famously shaved her entire head. The barber who did the deed decided to save all her hair and sold it off, with some lock even going for as much as 1 million dollars. The hair can be an entry on this list by itself. However, we will focus on something even weirder for our Britney Spears segment of the list. A fan, while walking backstage, saw Britney spit out a wad of gum. The fan, naturally, picked up the wad and took it home to show their friends. After the fan’s friends pointed out the fact that they could probably sell the gum on eBay for a pretty sum of money. The bids started flowing in quickly, with the winning bidder taking the gum home for the simple sum of 14,000 dollars. This is an outlier, as other Britney Spears wad of gums usually sell for around 100 dollars.

(Source: People)

8. Princess Beatrice’s hat sold by eBay auction for £81,100.01 to raise money for charity:

Princess Beatrice is the youngest sibling in the Royal Family of England. During the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, she wore a pink dress which she adorned with a hat. This hat was shaped like a bow, which reminded everyone on the internet of a pretzel or a Turkey Twizzler or even a toilet seat. There was also a Facebook page created in its honor. Princess Beatrice’s hat was sold on eBay for nearly 81,100.01 pounds sterling, which is almost 105,405 dollars. The proceeds from the auction were donated to various charities around London, mainly those helping the people living under the poverty line.

(Source: BBC)

9. Air from a Kanye West concert was sold for more than 65,000 dollars:

Kanye West arguably loosely fits the definition of a musician. He had a concert for his “music” called the 2013-14 Yeezus tour. Fans from the concert allegedly trapped air from the concert into plastic bags and put them on sale on eBay. In true internet fashion, for some reason, the bags saw a lot of demand, with the first one being auctioned for nearly 65,000 dollars! Kim Kardashian, Kanye’s wife, tweeted about the sale, saying, “Wow, he can truly sell anything.” The other bags subsequently sold for an average amount of around 15,000 dollars. The sellers tried to repeat the success of the bags by bagging air from other Kanye events as well but unfortunately couldn’t manage to achieve their previous levels of fame. These bags sold for 100 dollars to up to 1500 dollars.   

(Source: Daily Mail)

10. SnoreStop bought advertisement space on a man’s forehead:

In 2005, Andrew Fischer of Nebraska announced an auction on eBay to sell advertisement space on his forehead. He would tattoo the name and slogan of the company that bid the most money for an entire month. Melody de Rivel thought it would be the perfect idea for an advertisement for SnoreStop, her family-run business. She outbid every other person bidding on Andrew’s head, eventually paying him nearly 37,750 dollars to get him to tattoo the name of SnoreStop along with the slogan “It just works.” Andrew went through the temporary tattooing process and went around with his forehead proclaiming to the world that SnoreStop just works.

(Source: Business Wire)

11. The right to name an unborn child got auctioned off on eBay, but the situation ended happily:

In Arkansas, an unemployed mother of six children got pregnant again and realized that she wouldn’t be able to support all of them financially. Obviously. However, instead of investing in family management, she decided to put the right to name her son. The winning bidder bid nearly 6,800 dollars for the honor but refused to utilize the naming right. The bidder just donated the money to the mother out of the goodness of her heart.

(Source: Fox News)

12. James Blunt sold his sister to her future husband over eBay:

James Blunt might be a very successful person, but even with all his resources, he couldn’t get his sister to Ireland when she wanted to attend a funeral there. The planes were on strike, trained weren’t running, and the ferry service had been suspended. So, James Blunt decided to put his sister up on eBay, stating that “A damsel in distress needs a knight in shining armor to escort her to Ireland.” A gentleman took up the offer and flew her to Ireland on his helicopter. She was so enamored by her knight that they eventually ended up marrying each other!

(Source: Daily Mail)

13. A girl tried to sell her virginity on eBay, twice!:

One of the most controversial auctions that ever took place on eBay was when a Brazilian girl decided to auction her virginity on eBay right after her 18th birthday. The auction became very popular on the internet, sparking a huge meme war, and an even bigger auction war. The bids quickly surpassed the half a million-dollar mark, and finally was won by a 53-year-old Japanese business-man, who bid a cool 780 thousand dollars for the opportunity to, eh hmm, take her on a date. However, when the two met up, it turned out that the man was in fact a 21-year-old American millionaire. The girl obviously called off the date and returned the money. She then went on to become a model for Playboy Brazil but maintained that she was still a virgin when she tried to auction it off again. However, this time eBay shut the suction down very quickly, even adding a “No auctioning off virginity” rule in the terms and conditions of their website.

(Source: Gawker)

Bonus Fact: A man tried to sell a fully functioning F/A – 18 Hornet fighter jet on eBay in 2006. He obtained the plane from a scrapyard and stated in the sale description that the plane would sell for a minimum of 9 million dollars. McDonnell Douglas sells these jets for 28 million each. The jet would then cost a further 1 million dollars to restore to flight condition and then require an additional 40,000 dollars per month to maintain and then would only fly for around 2-3 hours a month. While he did receive some bids for the plane, he didn’t find a serious buyer, and in the end, did not make the sale via eBay. It is not known if the deal was made over any other platform, thought the rules that the US Government had imposed on the transaction were stringent.

Expensive Stuff

Given eBay’s position as the largest online auction website, it is not a surprise that the site has seen some extremely expensive auctions. Some of the most expensive items for sale on eBay tend to be high-end sports cars, especially Lamborghinis, which tend to be sold for nearly 500,000 to 700,000 dollars. However, these cars don’t come close to any of the items on the list. The items on this list contain some unusual items being sold for a large amount of money. Let’s start of the list with the most expensive thing to ever be auctioned off on eBay.

14. The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a giant yacht which was sold for 168 million dollars:

The most expensive thing that was ever sold on eBay was a giant 405 – feet long yacht designed by naval architect Frank Mulder. The marine craft is the first word in luxury and opulence, costing hundreds of million dollars for the huge number of features it contains. The yacht hosts a Jetstream swimming pool, eight guest cabins a spa, 10 multilevel VIP suites, office areas, a gym, a children’s cabin, a retractable glass elevator, a helicopter pad, movie theater and a 3,000 sq. feet master suite on the deck. There is literally nothing that is not on the marine craft. There is even the capability of launching a submarine via a dry dock. The Florida – based 4Yacht brokerage firm ratified the transaction. The manufacturers sell the Giga Yacht for the price of 196.5 million dollars, so the buyer saved a lot of money on the sale. The buyer in question was a Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich, who is an oil magnate with business ventures in the UK. Abramovich collects luxury yachts as a hobby, yes as a hobby, no, we are not kidding, which was his reason was purchasing the costly marine craft.

(Source: eBay)

15. A luxury Gulfstream II jet plane got auctioned for $4.9 million:

Jet planes are extremely expensive, with prices ranging from 3 million to even 90 million dollars. A Gulfstream GII jet plane usually retails for around 7.8 million dollars when they are brand new, and usually tend to be the most preferred jet plane for wealthy individuals looking to buy a private plane. A used Gulfstream GII jet plane showed up on eBay, which sparked a bidding war between people seeking a private plane and private charter companies. The auction finally ended with an Africa – based charter company buying the plane for 4.9 million dollars.

(Source: Aviation Week)

16. 20th Annual Power Lunch with Warren Buffett to Benefit GLIDE was auctioned for 4.5 million:

Warren Buffet is one of the wealthiest people in the world, currently being the third richest person in the world, after Jeff Bezos and Bill gates. He is also one of the most charitable people in the world as well, regularly donating millions to charities. He earned his money with smart investments in the right industries at the right time and hence is a very busy man. His time is at a very high premium. This premium, in fact, has been known for 20 years. The most recent edition of the Annual Power Lunch with Warren Buffet for GLIDE was bid for 4,567,889 dollars, the entire amount going to the charity GLIDE, which address the needs of, and advocates for, the most vulnerable and marginalized individual and families in San Francisco. The 19th Annual Power Lunch with Warren Buffet cost 3.3 million dollars, climbing from the previous year as well.

(Source: Glide)

17. The most expensive comic book ever sold in the world was the Action Comics #1, which auctioned off for 3.2 million dollars:

Superman is probably the most recognizable superhero in the world. The red and blue ‘S’ hope symbol can be found everywhere, from T-Shirts to mugs and obviously comic books. The hero first made his appearance on the cover of the Action Comics #1. The comic was first released in 1938 and was sold on newspaper stands for just 10 cents, which is equivalent to 1.06 dollars today. However, if you try to sell one of these comics today, you might earn more than a few million dollars! The most expensive comic ever sold was a CGC 9.0 rated Action Comics #1, which was sold to a private collector in 2014 for a giant sum of 3.2 million dollars.

(Source: Wealthy Gorilla)

18. A letter on God and philosophy written by the genius Albert Einstein’s was sold for 3 Million dollars:

Albert Einstein was a German scientist and is renowned for many reasons, from his work on general relativity to his lifelong attempt to find a unifying factor between the four fundamental forces of nature. He also won a Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the Photoelectric effect. However, fundamentally he was a chemist, working on the atomic model and laying the foundation for what would eventually become the nuclear program for power and weapons. When he was nearing his death, he was annoyed about how pastors and priests around the world were talking about him embracing religion in his final few years, even despite him stating he was an atheist all his life. To allay any suspicions, he wrote an open letter about his views on God and philosophy in general. He stated that God was a complicated concept, but he himself did not and never had believed in the concept of a higher power. The letter was auctioned off for a tidy sum of 3 million dollars.

(Source: New Yorker)

19. A baseball card with Honus Wagner’s face and statics on it was sold for a record 2.8 million dollars:

Baseball cards are often highly prized collector’s items, especially one that was released over 100 years ago. This is true for the baseball card of the baseball legend Honus Wagner. It was issued by the American Tobacco Company in 1909 and has been dubbed the “Mona Lisa” of baseball cards and was previously bought by the ice hockey maestro Wayne Gretzky, who purchased the card some years ago. The card was then sold to a private collector for 2.35 million dollars. The card was then sold again after six months, this time for a record 2.8 million dollars. The T206 Honus Wagner has been called an “icon in the field of baseball and Americana” by David Kohler, who is the president of SCP Auctions who brokered the sale both times.

(Source: Reuters)

20. The entire town of Albert, Texas, was auctioned off on eBay for nearly $2.5 million:

One of the most unusual things that have been sold on eBay was the entire town of Albert, Texas. The city is located just south of Highway 290, halfway between Johnson City and Fredericksburg, and has a population of a grand total of 13 residents, living on 20 acres of land. This was purchased by a wealthy investor who wanted to revamp the town as a tourist stop on the famous Highway 290. The investor rebuilt the town hall, renovated the public toilets, and upgraded all the other infrastructure as well. He then sold the town to another investor for over 2.5 million dollars. The town has a vibrant community who pride themselves on maintaining their early 1900s lifestyle, but heavily modernized with technology.

(Source: Albert Texas)

21. A country-house with a war-proof bunker in the basement was sold for $2.1 million:

War is hell and can strike at any time. Given the dire times that we live in, with the president of the largest military complex on the planet tweeting about raining nuclear missiles upon another maniac, it is good to be prepared for any eventuality. Realtors Gregory Gibbons and Bruce Francisco understood this fact and modified a property in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains that was which was a former military base, which has a silo under the ground. They bought the entire land and build a charming, luxurious house on it whose main highlight is a heavily-protected underground bunker that can keep up to 4 people safe during war or any other emergency. The realtors expected the house to sell for around $18 million, but unfortunately, people don’t want to spent millions of dollars for an eventuality that may never come. Until a war hits, all the owners of the house have is a costly basement. The realtors had to be satisfied with just the $2.1 million it was auctioned off for on eBay.

(Source: Forbes)

22.A small fragment of a meteorite that fell to Earth from Mars was bought for 2 million:

Meteorites fall to Earth all the time, but a meteorite that crashed into the planet in1962 was a different story altogether. This meteorite, found in Nigeria, was not an ordinary comet. This particular piece of rock had traveled to Earth all the way from Mars! Martian Meteorites usually come to earth due to an asteroid crashing into Mars, which flings debris into space. This debris can sometimes travel the 293 million kilometers between the two planets, and land on Earth. There are just 120 meteorites that have been confirmed to be from the red planet.. In 2006, the owner of such a piece of geological history decided to sell the meteorite off on eBay. They attached a certificate of authenticity that they had obtained from Northwestern University. The item, in the end, did not go to any planetarium or space museum, instead, it went a private collector who was willing to shell out nearly 2 million dollars for it.

(Source: ECommerce Bytes)

23. A collection of large vintage lunchboxes of classic cartoon characters was auctioned off for $1.7 million:

Vintage lunchboxes are inexplicably some of the most expensive collectors’ items on the planet, with rare lunchboxes selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars! The most extensive collection of large-sized vintage lunchboxes was sold on eBay for 1.7 million dollars! These included classic lunchboxes like Underdog, Howdy Doody, and even Superman. These collector’s items will only grow in value, so if you have 1.7 million dollars in spare change to throw around, these actually make for an excellent and safe investment that will only grow in value. However, real estate is still a better choice for your financial portfolio.

(Source: American Upbeat)

eBay Facts and Statistics

Now that we have seen the weird side of eBay and marveled at the amount of money that people spend on eBay let’s take a look into the general facts and statistics about eBay.

24. The first item ever auctioned on eBay was a broken laser pointer, sold by Pierre Omidyar himself:

In 1995, Pierre Omidyar created his website named Auction Web, and put his old laser pointer on it. He posted on various forums about it, mainly forums that were serving as a place to auction items, the very thing he wanted to replace. Nobody bid on the pointer during its first week, however soon, a bidding war started, which saw the laser pointer being sold for $14.83. Omidyar contacted the buyer, asking him if he understood the pointer was broken. He had purchased the $30 pointer to give presentations, however, it ended up as a cat toy and broke within a few weeks. The buyer responded by stating that he collected broken laser pointers as a hobby. The internet is truly a weird place.

(Source: Time)

25. Britain has well over 1,026 eBay millionaires:

Considering it the country with the most amount of eBay traffic, it is not surprising that there are over 1,026 businesses or individuals that have managed to earn over one million dollars. This trend started with a Skorpion CD being the first item ever sold on the UK version of the website, and eBay quickly penetrating into the British culture.

(Source: eBay)

26. eBay helped to discover a new sea urchin species:

eBay is known as the place where the weird and amazing parts of the internet meet. People can order anything from winter socks to a half-eaten French toast that was eaten by Justin Timberlake, all from eBay. However, sometimes eBay is a wonderful place, as when it was when it helped in the discovery of a branch new species of sea urchin. A man who collects sea urchins from the seafloor and sells to collectors. He discovered a brightly colored sea urchin, which he mistakenly labeled it as a member of the Coelopluerus Interruptus. The buyer sent the sea urchin to the Zoological Nomenclature at the Natural History Museum in London, where it was examined by Dr. Simon Coppard. Upon close investigation, Dr. Coppard realized that the urchin was from an as of yet undiscovered species. He named the new species Coelopluerus Exquisitus after its brightly colored spines and shell. Sea urchin auctions are becoming increasingly common on eBay, with most selling in the $50 – $150 range.

(Source: The Guardian)

27. There are 1.4 billion items up for auction at any one time, on average:

eBay is growing rapidly and is currently one of the biggest sales platforms on the planet. The platform allows for items to be sold in an auction, or by the “Buy It Now” feature, in which users can purchase the item for a fixed price. According to eBay, by the end of 2018, there were nearly 1.4 billion items for sale at any given point of time. There have been an estimated 12 billion items sold over eBay.

(Source: eBay)

28. eBay used to own PayPal and Skype:

eBay is known for its auction and sale service before any other service it provides. However, most people had used services that originated or matured when they were a subsidiary of eBay. The two most popular subsidiaries of eBay are the payment platform PayPal and the P2P communication platform Skype. PayPal was created for the simple purpose of providing a safe and secure way to pay for anything online without worrying aboutbeing scammed. PayPal was created by the famous engineer Elon Musk and was purchased and made and subsidiary by eBay in 2005. The company then grew as a subsidiary under eBay and was split from eBay in 2015 and is now an independent payment platform being used by a large number of websites to power their transactions. However, the story of Skype is not as successful. Skype was purchased by eBay to use its P2P technology to avoid creating a centralized server, and instead, allow users to connect to different users directly. However, eBay wasn’t able to successfully adapt the technology and had to sell to the Canadian Retirement Investment Fund, which incubated the company until it was sold to Microsoft for a large sum of 8 billion dollars.

(Source: Geek Wire, The Atlantic)

29. The original color of the website of yellow and was changed gradually to be the crisp white it is today:

Customer experiences depend on a large variety of factors, ranging for product satisfaction to prices, to even the UI of a website. eBay learned this the hard way when they decided to change the look of their website. The change was to simply change the background color from yellow to a bright white. This irked so many customers, who sent out a large number of complaints to eBay. They were forced to change the background back to yellow. However, eBay hit back with the most one of the pettiest things that a company has ever done. They wrote an algorithm that changed the shade of the background one shade at a time until, over the period of a few months, the color of the website went from bright yellow to the crisp white we know today.

(Source: The UX Blog)

30. The British band The Darkness tracked a leaked album using eBay:

The Darkness is a British band who, in 2005, released their album “One Way Ticket to Hell and Back.” The album was released in November 2005. However, a copy of the album was leaked online, with it coming to an auction on eBay. The album sparked a bidding war with the bids climbing quickly to 270 pounds. The band’s lead singer Justin Hawkins bought the copy by offering the seller 350 pounds on the spot. Justin stated that he would use the CD’s bar-code to figure out which was a seller that leaked the CD to the public.

(Source: BBC)

31. Jack Sheng was the first person to get a feedback score of a million:

Jack Sheng was one of the first users on eBay who started to consistently sell items on the planet, quickly gaining a large number of reviews and feedback on the feedback system that eBay implemented on their platform in ’99. Jack was among the first people to gain over 50,000 points on this feedback scale, which earned him a green shooting star over his name, certifying him as a trusted seller. Soon he hit a feedback score of 1 million, for which the team at eBay specifically designed another shooting star for Jack, which they dubbed the “Sweating Star.” The rating for Jack skyrocketed after this revelation, and his rating doubles in just 18 months, reaching 2 million in feedback rating soon. eBay even named a conference room in their headquarters after him.

(Source: eBay)

32. NASA used eBay to buy parts that it couldn’t find at any of their suppliers:

NASA’s shuttles were designed in the 1960s and 70s, and hence used technologies from that era. The shuttles were launched using twin booster rockets and their own main engine. These twin boosters use solid rocket fuel, which cannot be extinguished once it starts firing. Hence, a misfire could cause catastrophic damages to the shuttle and the launch pad itself. The hardware on these boosters would use a checking system that was powered by an 8086 microprocessor, which stopped being produced by the end of the 1980s. However, in 2002, NASA stated that they could not afford to upgrade their boosters to use modern technology and was not able to find any manufacturers that produced the 8086 microprocessors. Therefore, NASA went onto eBay to find any electronics that used 8086 microprocessors, which they could repurpose for their boosters. Soon after this incident, NASA decided to finally give in and upgrade the checking hardware.

(Source: The New York Times)

33. eBay buy it immediately feature accounts for more than 68% of all sales on the platform:

eBay may have started its life out as the biggest auction website on the internet, but it has changed the way it earns a lot of its revenue. Since November 2000, eBay has had a “Buy It Now” feature, which allows for buyers to purchase items for a fixed price, without going through an auction, thereby securing the item for themselves. Using this “Buy It Now” feature, many brands and large scale manufacturers sell their merchandise directly to the consumers, much like Amazon or Walmart’s online stores. This feature was very well received by the eBay users, and by 2011 accounted for nearly 51% of all revenue that eBay earned. This percentage only grew over the years, accounting for as much as 68% of all revenue in 2018.

(Source: Huff Post)

34. Electronics and associated accessories are the top sellers on eBay:

There are nearly 13 major categories of items that get sold on eBay, ranging from automotive to even Giga yachts (see below). The largest section of items that get sold on eBay is the electronics and other associated accessories, which account for nearly 16.4% of all sales on eBay. These items include all gadgets like laptops, mobile phones, game consoles, etc. This category also accounts for accessories like chargers, laptop tables and fans, and skins and covers. The second biggest category that sells on eBay is the Clothing and associated accessories, like jackets or socks. 

(Source: Edison Trends)

35. The average eBay user spends nearly 7 minutes and 22 seconds per visit on the website:

Research into eBay’s userbase has shown that most users who access the website know exactly what they desire to buy and hence navigate straight to it among the billions of other items. The window shoppers normally just browse their favorite categories until they find an auction that they wish to bid upon. The time that an average user spends on the application per visit tends to be around 7 minutes and 22 seconds, with most users only using the application once per day. The total amount of time spent on the application per month for a user is in the range of 150 minutes or approximately 2 and a half hours.

(Source: Similar Web)

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The gaming industry as a whole has grown quickly, with the amount of revenue that the gaming industry generates being more than the revenue generated by movies, books and TV shows combined. Games have penetrated deep into our culture, with as many as 75% of all households having at least one gamer in their household. These gamers tend to be around 35 years of age, who own a house and have at least one kid. This goes against the whole image of the gamer being a college-age person, living without a job in their parent’s basement.

A large section of these gamers plays on a console, whether it is a PlayStation, an Xbox, or a Nintendo system. These console gamers constitute a large amount of the total revenue that the industry generates. Today we will look at these console gamers, their consoles, and their games. We will explore what the industry is like, and then look at some weird facts you may not have known about the consoles and their games.

We will mainly be talking about the eighth generation of consoles, which are the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch. This generation has lasted roughly 5 years, beginning at the end of 2014. The brand new generation of consoles is going to be coming out at the end of 2020, before which you can read this list to know how the last one went!

Press Start to Start

Let’s start this list off by looking through the quick menu of this list and pop off some fast facts.

  1. The NES, SNES, and Gameboy were all discontinued together in 2003.
  2. The PlayStation 1 only had 2 MB of RAM, the PlayStation 2 only had 32MB of RAM, the PlayStation 3 had 256 MB of RAM, and the PlayStation 4 had 8 GB of RAM.
  3. The PlayStation 2 was the first console to use DVDs.
  4. The Gameboy ran at a framerate of 60 FPS.

The Numbers Mason, What Do They Mean?!

While Mason may not have remembered what the numbers meant, we do. The numbers we refer to are obviously the statistics related to the console gaming industry in general. In this section, we will look at the financial statistics related to the industry, and then some numbers you may not expect.

BEGIN!

1. The third-generation console, Sega Master System, is the longest selling console of all time:

The third generation of consoles were mainly 8-bit consoles with 4Hz CPUs and 8Kb of RAM and ROM. These technical specifics might seem like absolutely nothing compared to all the power and speed that modern consoles can boast of. Despite its power and speed being non – existent when putting up against current consoles, the Sega Master System is the longest selling console of all time. This console has been continuously sold since 1985 and is manufactured by the same manufacturer for 35 years. The primary market for this old console is the country of Brazil. Nearly 8 million Master Systems were sold 2016 in Brazil, with the number jumping higher in the following years. Keep in mind that the Master System saw two successors, which both failed. Experts suggest that this is because of the system’s low price, $225, and a wide variety of games, with new releases no less, which are readily available in Brazil.

(Source: Start)

2. Microsoft spent over $1.15 billion on fixing the red ring of death issues in the OG Xbox: Microsoft’s answer to Sony’s PlayStation 3 was the Xbox 360, which was released in 2005. The console was highly anticipated and suffered from a shortage of stocks in many regions of the world. This led to the design and manufacturing of the console to be rushed, which led to a host of issues. The most well-known of these issues was the famous Red Ring of Death (or RRoD). These issues plagued the first iteration of the Xbox 360, which was also the most famous iteration of the console. An unbelievably large number of Xbox’s suffered from the RRoD with some estimations stating that nearly 34% of all Xbox 360s died due to the RRoD. Microsoft, upon realizing the issue, issued a massive recall and replacement effort that cost the company nearly 1.15 billion dollars overall. The Xbox 360’s project leader stated that despite the enormous cost, they made the decision for the recall to protect the brand’s integrity. This move turned out to be the right one as the Xbox brand is valued at nearly 4.5 billion dollars today.

Bonus Fact: A popular, but not Microsoft endorsed, method for fixing the RRoD error was to wrap the console in a warm towel for 20 minutes, which would revive the console for around 3 to 4 hours, allowing files to be recovered.

(Source: Gamespot, Wikihow)

3. The PlayStation 2 is the most successful console till date, with over 156 million units sold: In the eternal argument between Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox, the PlayStation’s supporters always tend to bring the PlayStation 2’s success as one of the significant reasons the former brand is better. This seventh-generation console enjoyed immense success. It saw a slew of games that, to this date, feature heavily in almost all ‘Best Games of All Times’ lists. The console was so popular that it sold nearly 156 million units worldwide, a feat that is yet to be bested. Even PlayStation’s big brother PlayStation 4 hasn’t achieved this milestone. As of 2020, the PlayStation 4 has managed to sell only 102.8 million units.

(Source: SA Gamer)

4. The PlayStation 2’s younger brother was the first console to sell over 100 million units: The PlayStation 1 was the first console that Sony released in their PlayStation line of products. This was a fifth-generation console and was competing with industry leaders like Nintendo and Sony, who had been making the console war for literal generations. Hence it was widely believed that Sony releasing their console was a mistake since they were up against veterans. However, owing to the fact that the PlayStation 1 had a CD ROM disc drive, it managed to be very successful, with tons of AAA developers making exclusive games for the platform. This catapulted the PlayStation 1 into the limelight like no console before it, making it the first console ever to sell over 100 million units. Buy the end of its lifetime the PlayStation had sold nearly 102.6 million total units. Even the PlayStation 4 barely managed to reach this height, as seen in the previous fact.

(Source: News Hub)

5. The console gaming industry is now worth well over $33.3 billion: As the popularity of gaming rises, as does the revenue that the industry brings in. Console gaming is a market that caters to the casual gaming audience, the kind of gamers who don’t want to invest thousands of dollars into a dedicated gaming PC. The overall gaming industry is worth nearly 130 billion dollars, of which the console manufacturers earn almost 33.3 billion dollars. It is much harder to pin the revenue that the game manufacturers make of off game sales, but the ballpark figure of 30 billion dollars has been made. The income earned by the console manufacturers is expected to rise to as much as 80.1 billion dollars by the end of 2021. This includes the expected revenue from the ninth generation of consoles, due to be released by the end of 2020.

(Source: Venture Beat)

6. Free games being in the most revenue for publishers, ironically: Free to Play games are all the rage right now in the gaming industry. These games include the likes of Destiny, DOTA 2, League of Legends, and the most famous one being Fortnite. The model of pricing that these games use depends on the gamers purchasing post game items. These are mainly cosmetic items which change nothing but the appearance of the player character, although there are some games which allow for gamers to buy weapons and other playable items. Free to Play games bring in nearly 13.7 billion dollars in revenue for consoles, with Fortnite, the industry leader, brining in nearly 2.5 billion dollars alone. This model has been blamed for a lot of issues surrounding the gaming industry in general, to the point where the European Union even banned loot boxes outright. This doesn’t prevent the Free to Play games from being incredibly popular, with DOTA 2 being the most financially successful game of all time, and Fortnite being the biggest game of all time with regards to its player base. 

(Source: Tech Crunch)

7. There are an approximate 661.6 million console gamers in the world: To get an idea of how big the console gaming market is, understand the fact that there are nearly 662 million console gamers in the world. For some context, there are 331 million people living in the United States of America. That is the third biggest country by population in the world, with India coming in second with 1.3 billion residents. The total number of gamers in the world is expected to be around 2.5 billion, more than one – third of the entire human population. These gamers are divided between the PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo camps. The PlayStation camp seems to be their most successful of them all, but Xbox Series X seems to be poised to take over.

(Source: Statista)

8. The Nintendo Switch has outsold the Xbox One, claiming 25% of the console gaming market: Let’s take a look at the console gaming market share that the various major companies hold. Sony is the dominant leader in the market, with the PS4 holding 51% of the market, having sold 102.8 million units. The Nintendo Switch has been sold 50 million times, holding 25% of the console market, and has eclipsed the Xbox One, which has sold about 48 million units, and holds 24% of the market share. These statistics only refer to the eighth generation of consoles. If we take an overall look at the market, then the PlayStation holds 68% of the market, the Xbox has 31% and the Nintendo Switch holds 1% of the entire console market share.

(Source: Forbes)

9. 80% of all revenue for consoles comes from software sales: Software sales account for a large percentage of all revenue earned by console games manufacturers. These sales are in the form of digital downloads and add-on DLCs for physical games. According to industry reports, nearly 80% of al profits earned by games manufactures comes in the form of software sales, with as much as 53% of these profits being from after sale services, like DLCs and cosmetics. The kind of games that rely on after sale services are usually the Free to play kind, for example Fortnite.

(Source: Research and Markets)

How Console Peasants Make Themselves Happy (JK)

Now that we are familiar with the numbers behind the screens of console gaming let’s take a look at some fun facts that console peasants use to entertain themselves with. We kid of course, the console gaming industry, has become a strong contender for games in general, with some of the best-reviewed games on the decade being console exclusives, whether permanently or for its first few months. Here you will find some facts about consoles that you may not have known about.

10. The Famicom and SNES’s eject button did absolutely nothing: The Famicom was famous as being the only console to have a dedicated cartridge eject lever (a button in later iterations). The lever was believed to prevent the cartridge from getting corrupted and being removed prematurely. However, in an interview after the system’s second iteration, the Famicom’s creator Masayuki Uemura stated that the eject lever did absolutely nothing. Its only purpose was, to quote, “Making a satisfying click sound.” Masayuki said that he fled the console could entertain children even after the console has been powered off. This idea was adopted by the Super Famicom and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as well. This knowledge did not ever become common in the lifetime of these consoles, with small scale conflicts erupting in living rooms across the world. The issue of conflict was usually about whether or not the cartridge was broken after you pulled it out without ejecting, the answer to which, however, is no.

(Source: Glitterberri)

11. The first game to be played in space was….. Tetris and not space invaders sadly: Aleksandr Serebrov was a Russian cosmonaut and was one of the few cosmonauts who flew for both the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation that followed it. Aleksandr Serebrov many missions for the ROSCOSMOS and flew over to four different space stations. However, he is most well known for being the first-ever human to play a video game in space. He took his Gameboy up to the space station on one of his visits and played the first video game in space. This man played a game in space, and it was NOT space invaders. It was Tetris. In space.

(Source: New York Times)

12. The PlayStation 1 controller was 10% bigger in the United States of America, to account for bigger hands: The PlayStation is originally a Japanese product, manufactured by Sony for the Japanese market, to compete with Nintendo.When the PlayStation become popular in Japan,Sony released for the American market as well, but with a minor redesign. The controller for the PS1 was made approximately 10% bigger. This was to account for the larger size of the average American hands. This design pattern wasn’t repeated for the later iterations of the PlayStation, nor was present in any of the other major consoles.

(Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly)

13. The PlayStation 2 enjoyed the longest life for any major console, 13 years to be precise: The PlayStation 2 is the most successful console of all time. This was reflected in its unusually long lifetime, which saw the PlayStation 2 getting new game releases as soon as a month before the release of the PlayStation 4. This added up to nearly 13 years, which is much less than the Sega Master System, but the PlayStation 2 saw games being developed by AAA publishers even by the end of its lifetime. According to most industry experts, this long life will never be replicated by any other console in the future, owing to the rapid shift in technology and the fact that gamers look forward to a hardware upgrade.

(Source: SA Gamer)

14. Since the SNES wasn’t powerful to emulate a Gameboy in software so it had the all of the hardware of the Gameboy in it: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) was Nintendo’s first major console after the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) which wasn’t a handheld. Nintendo had long since announced that the SNES would be able to play Gameboy game that came before and after the SNES’s release. To achieve this, they initially wanted to make the SNES emulate the Gameboy’s hardware via software. However, they found out that the SNES wasn’t powerful enough to achieve this, so instead of reneging on their promise, they include the entire hardware of a Gameboy in the system, without the screen and inputs. This allowed for the SNES to play all Gameboy games without needing to get more powerful hardware.

(Source: The Verge)

15. Nintendo Switch out-sold its predecessor in just 10 months: For years, Nintendo had fallen from grace, after the failure of its sixth and seventh-generation consoles, the Wii and the Wii U. These consoles saw Nintendo fall from the throne of the king of gaming console, and the PlayStation and Xbox take over as the reigning champions. After the release of Wii in 2006, it became a success and saw a multitude of AAA support. However, soon the publishers moved to the other two consoles, and the Wii was declared as a failure by the industry. Since then, Nintendo lost all markets as hardware manufacturers, and the utter failure of the Wii U just contributed to the decline. However, everything changed with the launch of Nintendo’s eight-generation console, the Switch. The switch outsold the Wii U within just 10 months. By the end of 2020, Nintendo has sold nearly 50 million Switches worldwide.

(Source: The Verge)

16. Apple wanted to become a gaming company, releasing a “premier” console, which failed: Apple has cemented its reputation in the tech world as the producer of premium hardware and software, which also cost a premium amount. However, when Apple tried the same approach with game consoles, by releasing the console named ‘The Pippin.’ The Pippin was the result of a partnership between Apple and Sega, the veteran console manufacturer. It was priced at a very high rate of $599, which was extremely high compared to the other consoles on the market, which were priced around the $399 range. This approach may have worked for Apple in the tech market but did not work in the console market. The Pippin was a horrible failure and was discontinued within months.

(Source: Gameological)

17. The gaming companies Sony and Nintendo tried and failed at a partnership: Sony and Nintendo were and still are a major force in gaming development. For most of the lifetimes of these companies, they have been competitors, with the PlayStation dethroning the Wii and the Switch dethroning the PS Vita. However, it may surprise you that these companies actually tried to make a partnership work. The first iteration of the PlayStation was in fact, created by Nintendo. It was called the Nintendo PlayStation and featured both a cartridge-based and a CD-based media. According to the partnership, Sony would have claimed all the money from CD sales, and Nintendo would only make money from royalties. The partnership failed incredibly quickly, with only 200 prototypes ever being produced.

(Source: Engadget)

18. The PS1 was the first major console to run CD ROM discs, making it the winner of the Fifth Generation: Before the massive popularity of CD ROM discs, the primary way for games to be stored and sold were cartridges. These cartridges only had about 12 MBs of space as compared to CD ROM discs having nearly 600 MBs of space. The massive boost in storage space meant that developers decided to develop for CD ROMS exclusively. The first major console which could run CD ROM discs was the PlayStation 1. This console was not as powerful as its counterparts among the Sega and Nintendo, but they only ran cartridges, which developers abandoned quickly. This made the PS1 the king of the gaming hardware throne. As we saw earlier, the PlayStation 1 was the first console to sell over 100 million units. Only two other consoles tried CD ROMs before the PlayStation 1, however without a major company like Sony backing them and creating first-party games, they failed quickly.

(Source: Old School Gamer Magazine)

19. Sega Saturn the first major console to enable online multiplayer games: Todays gaming market is saturated with huge scale multiplayer games, with thousands of players playing together. This wasn’t always the case. Fellow Kids, let me tell you about the games in our age. If we wanted to play with our friends, we had to physically, yes physically, go to that friend’s house, with our own feet, and use controllers on the same console. While this may seem like a social nightmare to you modern gamers of today, we had to physically interact with people if we wanted to play with them. This trend has been replaced by online multiplayer now, where one can play with anyone, anywhere across the globe instantly. This was first pioneered by Sega in their Sega Saturn console system, which had an additional piece of hardware, called the NetLink Internet Modem. This let users connect their consoles to other consoles, without the need for servers, which Sega didn’t have. This was the first time a major system let users do this, allowing cross console play. The Sega Saturn saw a lot of success after the launch of the NetLink.

(Source: Sega)

20. Nokia’s failed handheld console, the N – Gage, was declared a commercial failure within months after its launch: Nokia has been a long-time phone manufacturer and hence has excelled in creating amazing handheld devices. In 2003, they decided to take this expertise and build a device called the N – Gage, which was a combination of a handheld console and a mobile phone. The system had a number pad on the right-hand side of the screen and a D Pad and other buttons on the left hand side. The console/mobile phone (Con-Phone? Mobsole?) was released to compete with the dominating success of Nintendo’s Gameboy. However, within just the few weeks of its release, the Gameboy outsold the N – Gage nearly 100 – 1. Within just 17 days of its release some major retailers like Radio Shack, Walmart, and GameStop started to offer large discounts for the Con-Phone. By the end of its commercial life, the Mobsole was declared a failure as it failed to meet even a third of the total projected units sold. This was attributed to many reasons, such as a small games library, a poor battery life, and an awkward shape which earned it the nickname ‘Taco-Phone’.

(Source: Medium)

The Games

Having looked at consoles and figures about them, the only things left to examine are the various games that can be played on them. In this section we will look at some facts and figures about console games. Here you will find the revered names like Grand Theft Auto, Halo or even Duck Hunt!

21. Uncharted 4 was the best-selling PlayStation 4 game of all time with 16 million units sold: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End was the fourth installment in PlayStation’s long standing exclusive series which revolves around the fabled thief and treasure hunter Nathan Drake. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End was released for the PlayStation 4 (quite aptly) following in the tradition of each Uncharted installment being released for each of the PlayStation consoles. When it comes to console exclusive titles, Uncharted 4 holds the honour of being the most successful PlayStation 4 game of all times, and the Uncharted Series as being one of the most successful series of console games. Naughty Dog, the publisher of the Uncharted games, sold nearly 16 million units of Uncharted 4 by the end of 2019.

(Source: PlayStation Lifestyle Net)

22. Halo 5: Guardians was the best-selling Xbox One game of all time with 8.72 million units sold: Halo is one of the most popular games on the planet, with many people having fond memories of driving Warthogs over their friends and then tea-bagging over their corpse. The series’ popularity comes from the fact that it used to be a Windows exclusive, which means it was available for Xbox and PC both. The Halo 5: Guardians is the latest installment in the revered Halo series and was released amidst must pomp and show. The fact that it was an Xbox One exclusive and not available on PC was not well received by gamers across the world. Despite this fact, the game broke the record for the most sold Xbox One game of all time, with more than 8.72 million units having been sold for the Xbox One. The game itself was badly reviewed by the critics and gamers alike, but still sold well due to having the name Halo in the title.

(Source: Research and Markets)

23. Overall the most successful game which was console exclusive was Wii Play for the Nintendo Wii, selling over 28 million units: The Nintendo Wii was Nintendo’s seventh generation console, which pioneered the adoption of motion control technology in game consoles. The Wii had a bunch of games of bundled with it, which utilized its motion control technology for playing a variety of games. One of these games was the Wii Play, which was a collection of 9 mini games, which included archery, golf, skeet shooting etc. These games were some of the first games that used motion control technology to its fullest extent, which skyrocketed its popularity among gamers. Wii Play ended its long lifetime after having sold nearly 28 million units. The games were extremely popular due to their simplicity and novelty.

(Source: Nintendo)

24. The rarest console game of all time is the Nintendo World Championship Gold cartridge, selling for as much as $100,000: The Nintendo World Championship was Nintendo’s event where they were looking for ‘The Greatest NES Player of All Time’. To this effect, they sent out 40 teams, with a specially made cartridge containing single levels from the games in the championship. There winners of these tournaments were then invited to a bigger tournament, where the games were played on a Gold colored cartridge with the same levels. There were only 26 of these gold cartridges made, which were then given to the winners of the various games. These cartridges have since not been sold very many times, with the last time one selling for an astounding amount of money, $100,000 for the gold cartridge, and nearly $70,000 for the grey variant of the cartridge.

(Source: HowChoo)

25. Ducks can only be hunted on a CRT monitor: Duck Hunt is one of the most well-recognized games of all time. It was one of the first video games ever sold which required a special peripheral to play the game. This peripheral was a gun with a working trigger attached to it, which the players had to shoot at the duck on the screen. The game would then register the gunshot and would only work if the gun was pointed accurately. One of the biggest gripes people had about the gun was the fact that the gun was VERY accurate. This was due to how the console registered the gunshot. The gun had a camera which would only register a change in color from white to black. When the gun’s trigger was pulled, the CRT screen would flash all black for one frame, with the ducks in white color. Then the screen would flash white for one frame with the ducks in black color. The gun’s camera would then register the change in the pixels and send the console a confirmation of the shot. The issue was that the gun would only register a change in a tiny area, only a few pixels wide. This feature would only work on CRT TVs, which used a cathode ray for every pixel.

(Source: Mary Sue)

26. Six of the top ten games of the decade are console exclusives: A lot of gamers consider consoles to be inferior to PCs when it comes to gaming. This propensity of gamers to disregard console games is so well known that the term for PC gamers is the “PC Master Race.” The phrase was coined by Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation, who also coined the term Console Peasant. Despite the disdain that the console industry faces from the so-called master race, it produces amazing games, the likes of which aren’t seen on PC. In fact, of the top ten games in the last decade, according to Forbes, six of them were console exclusives, or first released on consoles. According to a large number of game reviewers, the best games of the decade seem to be God of War for the PS4, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the Nintendo Switch and Wii U, or the Red Dead Redemption 2 for the PS4 and Xbox One, or even Grand Theft Auto V, which was originally released only for PS3 and PS4 but was ported to the PC.

(Source: Forbes)

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Crowdfunding the method of raising capital for any reason, mostly for the creation of a unique product, via friends, family, individual investors, and the internet community at large. Crowdfunding is usually achieved by crowdfunding platforms like Kickstart, IndieGoGo, and GoFundMe. These platforms allow the creators of the product to bring attention to the project, thereby attracting more revenue for the same. Often a project will establish a social media presence as well, on YouTube or Facebook, and keep bringing videos of their progress to the public, advertising for more investors.

The primary way in which Crowdfunding differs from traditional investment rounds is the difference in visibility that it brings with it. With investment rounds, founders would find themselves taking their business plan to multiple investors, taking up a lot of their time. However, with crowdfunding, they can bring their idea to the entire internet, wherein they can find people willing to back their projects.

There are three main kinds of crowdfunding, namely, reward type, donation type, and equity type.

The donation-based type is where the creators only ask for funds from the people on the platform, without offering anything in return. Most crowdfunding projects of this type of crowdfunding to raise money for charitable or medical purposes. It is a relatively common type of crowdfunding, with GoFundMe relying on the same.

The reward-based type is where the creator offers tiered rewards to people who fund their projects. Even though there is actually a reward being offered to the funders, it is considered to be a subset of donation based crowdfunding, as there is little to no financial gain. This form of crowdfunding is the most famous kind, with Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, and Patreon relying on the same.

The last and the least famous, kind of crowdfunding is the equity based crowdfunding. On platform working on this kind of crowdfunding, creators of projects offer equity or shares in their company in exchange for the investor’s funds. This is very similar to traditional investment methods, with the only difference being that investors visit the platform looking for projects and companies to fund, instead of the other way around.

Here we will take a look at crowdfunding in detail and understand the industry completely. We will look at popular platforms and their financial statistics. Then we will look at some incredibly weird crowdfunded projects!

Quick facts

If you have a potentially fantastic idea that you would like to crowdfund and are only looking at this article to understand if the process of crowdfunding is appropriate for you, then look no further than this section. Let’s take a swift look at some basic facts about crowdfunding in general.

  • The average successful crowdfunding campaign is worth around $7,000.
  • The average crowdfunding campaign donation is $88.
  • 42% of funds are raised in the first and last three days of a crowdfunding campaign.
  • 78% of crowdfunding campaigns exceed their goal.
  • There have been 10.94 million total campaigns across all the crowdfunding platforms.
  • Around 56,000 projects on Kickstarter got 0% funding.

The Crowdfunding Industry

Now that we have learned about the various platforms on which crowdfunding occurs let’s take a look into the overall industry itself. Understanding the crowdfunding industry, in general, will involve looking at both, the financial facts, and the statistics regarding the campaigns themselves. Let’s begin with what the future of crowdfunding can look like:

1. The crowdfunding industry is projected to grow to nearly $30 billion by 2025: The crowdfunding industry is growing rapidly, with the amount of money being earned by the top platforms climbing quickly to nearly $8 billion. The industry will continue to grow at a CAGR of almost 16% to steeply climb to a $30 billion industry.

(Source: Crowd Expert)

2. The crowdfunding industry was worth nearly $8.537 billion in 2019: As the funds being raised for crowdfunding projects grow larger and larger, the amount of money that is made by crowdfunding platforms and the general industry rises as well. Most platforms take a small cut form both, the total funds raised by the project, and from the transactions between the donors and the creators. The amount of money that the platforms have earned is more than eight and a half-billion dollars. The amount increases with around 16% CAGR, and the industry is expected to have a robust future.

(Source: Valuates)

3. Since the creation of crowdfunding, there have been $34 billion total funds raised on various platforms and independently: The crowdfunding industry has because a major platform for startups to find their footing. Owning to the large internet community, a large number of projects can raise huge amounts of money. According to some industry experts and the public records of crowdfunding companies, crowdfunding has raised nearly $34 billion since 2012, with the top four platforms raising nearly 78% of all the raised funds. The amount raised is expected to rise sharply, with the growing popularity of crowdfunding and the internet. Industry forecasts state that the amount raised might rise to nearly $50 billion in the coming five years.

(Source: Startup)

4. The biggest classification of businesses being crowdfunded is Business and Entrepreneurship, holding 41.4% of the market: Crowdfunding affects all kinds of business and projects, from the technological innovations to an artist’s work. According to a study by massolution, the biggest market for crowdfunding to be raised in the business and entrepreneur sector. This sector covers all new technological innovations and any new kind of business, which can be about anything, from a new service, or selling art. Hence any all projects under the “Profits” section of projects count under this sector. Therefore, it is no surprise that this sector counts for as much as 41.1% of all the funds raised on crowdfunding platforms.

(Source: Massolution)

5. There has been nearly $25 billion spent on peer to peer lending platforms: Peer to peer lending refers to the practice of lending or borrowing money between two individuals without any financial institutions ratifying the same. This refers to almost all of the most popular crowdfunding platform. These platforms take a small cut of the transactions occurring on the platform, and the money is transferred directly between the users. The creator of the project returns the money in the form of rewards and perks. Hence they count as peer to peer lending, with the money flowing in this way has reached $25 billion. The other money has been raised through financial institutions and donation based crowdfunding.

(Source: Fundly)

6. Only around half of all crowdfunded projects are get completely funded: As we have seen, millions of campaigns have been successfully funded through crowdfunding. Now considering the fact that this only states the number of successful campaigns, the number of unsuccessful campaigns may surprise anyone. The success rate for crowdfunding projects on the top platforms of the world, it has been shown that as many as half of all crowdfunding projects fail to reach their goal. Which means any given project only has a 50 – 50 chance of success. While this may seem like a terrifying prospect for anybody looking to start a crowdfunding project, keep in mind that a lot of the failed products manage to reach a significant part of their goal.

(Source: Massolution)

Most Successful Crowdfunded Companies

Given the success of crowdfunding platforms and the adoption of crowdfunding in startup culture, it is not surprising that a large number of companies started their life as a crowdfunded project. Here we will look at some popular companies that got their start as a publicly crowdfunded project. Keep in mind, we will only mention the projects that started off as a crowdfunded project, and not an already existing product/company raising extra money via crowdfunding. This list will also explore top-rated companies that started as crowdfunded projects but have grown immensely since then.

7. The highest amount of funds raised was for the game Star Citizen: Star Citizen is an upcoming space-based Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) being developed by Roberts Space Industry. The company was founded by two video game developing veterans who had previously worked on the popular space game Wing Commander 2. The decision to make an MMORPG inspired by the wing commander universe. This led to the creation of Star Citizen. The game claimed to be a seamless blend between an FPS shooter and an Eve Online like space sim. The trailer video was released on Kickstarter and their own website. This then led to the most successful crowdfunded endeavor of all time, with their independent and kickstarted funds to date being around $215 million. They also have taken an investment from a private individual. The game is set to release in late 2020.

(Source: Star Citizen, EuroGamer)

8. The most successful Kickstarted project to date was the smartwatch Pebble: Smartwatches have started to become very ubiquitous in modern society. The market has been taken over by companies like Apple and Samsung. However, the first mass-produced smartwatch was actually created by the company Pebble. The Pebble 1 and 2 were a smartwatch whose display looked like paper, much like the Kindle. The Pebble 1 was revealed on Kickstarter, and being the first proper smartwatch, the Pebble gathered a lot of attention online. The Kickstarter raised almost 30.6 million dollars, and the watch got produced. The watch was soon followed by another being designed, and also got crowdfunded. However, the small company couldn’t match the features being offered by Apple and Samsung and wasn’t able to keep its market share intact. The company was acquired by Fitbit in 2019 and stopped honoring old warrantees.

(Source: Kickstarter)

9. One of the most popular projects was for the creation of a new type of honeycomb Flow Hive: Traditional beekeeping methods involve steps that can severely hurt or even kill a lot of bees. This meant that extracting any honey from these hives could potentially damage the very bees that live in the hives could die. This was a point of contention for the creators of the Flow hive. Therefore, they decided to create a hive that could harvest honey safely, without damaging any bees. These hives were designed and then put on IndieGoGo. Beekeepers around the world loved the idea and dubbed the design as being the next default hive. The project raised nearly 14.95 million dollars, and successfully launched the Flow Hive 1 and then the follow-up Flow hive 2.

(Source: Flow, IndieGoGo)

10. Seeking party animals, Coolest Cooler was put on Kickstarter and managed to raise millions: Some companies don’t exist to fill a need, but just exists to provide a crazy product for crazy needs. This is exactly the principle that the creators of the Coolest Cooler. This is a drinks cooler that can keep a lot of ice and drinks cool. It also features an ice blender to create margaritas and sangrias. The cooler even has a completely waterproof Bluetooth speaker and also features a waterproof USB charger outlet. Some more features that they packed into the cooler are LED lights, rolling wheels, a bottle opener, and even storage for Plates and Knives. The project was widely loved by people who love to party and managed to raise nearly 13.38 million dollars. The company now offers a large range of products related to coolers and their accessories.

(Source: Coolest)

11. Annoyed with all the issues related to travel, creators of BauBax made the travel jacket: Two graduates who were dating each other found the annoyances of long-distance travel to meet each other decided to create a jacket that would aid all small niggles of travel. This resulted in them coming up with the BauBax jacket series, which were named after themselves. They realized the potential of what they had created and released it on Kickstarter, where the jacket ended up raising almost 9.12 million dollars. Currently, the company makes a large number of travel products, including multiple styles of jackets, sleeping masks, neck pillows, and even footrests.

(Source: BauBax, Kickstarter)

12. The highest amount of money raised by any board game was by Exploding kittens: Do you like kittens? Do you like the thought of impending death via explosions? Do you like goats and lasers? Then you would definitely love the card game Exploding Kitten. This game features a deck of cards, and the objective of the game is to avoid being blown up by the cats playing with explosive devices. The game was created by the creators when they were playing a game that involved the person who draws a joker from the pile losing the game. This game was then refined, and with the help of illustrator, the game of Exploding Kittens was created. A Kickstarter campaign was launched for the same, which got incredible popularity over Reddit. The campaign ended with nearly 8.8 million dollars being raised for the same. Exploding Kitten now has 2 expansion packs, and the company offers two more card games as well.

(Source: Exploding Kittens)

13. One of the first companies to raise money via crowdfunding was Dwarven Forge: When crowdfunding was still in its early stages, campaigns raising over one million dollars were rare. This was when the independent company Dwarven Forge released its kickstart campaign. This company was created by an artist who specialized in creating miniatures. These miniatures were hand-painted and part of a modular set, which allowed them to be used for the creation of a variety of medieval fantasy structures. The company had 3 separate campaigns to fund the creation of different styles of pieces. In total, Dwarven Forge raised nearly 8.4 million dollars, making it a multi-million dollar enterprise with customers all around the globe.

(Source: Dwarven Forge, Kickstarter)

14. Bragi, a company that revolutionized the wearable technology, was born on IndieGoGo: Wireless headphones and earphones have become the norm in the wearable department. More companies are offering fully wireless earphones and headphones than companies offering wired earphones. One of the companies that have revolutionized this market has been Bragi, who created an operating system for exclusive use on wireless earphones and headphones. This allows users to install apps directly onto the headphones and also control them using head gestures. The initial campaign on IndieGoGo was for the Bragi Earphones, which were proprietary earphones that were the first device to run the Bragi OS. The campaign managed to raise over 3.4 million dollars, allowing Bragi to become a software-focused company, which develops smart earphones and headphones in collaboration with other companies.

(Source: Bragi)

15. The most popular company that was kickstarted was the Virtual Reality company Oculus: The name Oculus has become synonymous with Virtual Reality technology. This is the most well-known crowdfunded project of all time, even though it raised only 2.4 million dollars. The Oculus Rift was posted on Kickstarter and exploded into popularity online. This came at a time when the virtual reality technology was just in its infancy. Oculus Rift was properly funded and was sent to the people who pre-ordered them. It got amazing reviews by all the early adopters, and the valuation of the company Oculus grew nearly overnight. The company was eventually purchased by Facebook for almost two billion dollars and now offers three different VR headsets and a lot of other accessories.

(Source: Kickstarter, Oculus)

16. The only other brand to be sold out of every Apple Store also started as a crowdfunded venture: If you own any Apple product, the chances are high that you are acquainted with Elevation Labs. This company only creates docks and chargers for Apple products. They started off by creating a dock for the Apple iPhone 4 and was placed on Kickstarter. The dock raised nearly 1.6 million dollars. The product was shipped out, and Apple quickly realized that a lot of their customers were buying this product. Soon Elevation Labs also started to sell docks and wireless chargers for nearly all Apple mobile products. Soon Apple announced an official partnership and started selling Elevation Labs products in all of their store, the first, and the only brand to ever be given this distinction.

(Source: Elevation Labs)

Unusual Crowd Funded Projects

As we have seen in this article, crowdfunding has some fantastic potential for funding innovative technological marvels. It has given excellent opportunities for millions of people who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to secure funding for their ideas. Crowdfunding has allowed the financing of cutting edge technology and even to support charitable or artistic endeavors. It has led to the rise of some companies worth millions today. However, it has also been used to finance some projects and products that some might deem unusual or even bizarre. Let’s take a look at some of the most exciting and unique projects that have been successfully funded on various crowdfunding platforms.

17. The $55,492 Potato Salad whose maker didn’t even know what to make: In quite possibly the weirdest display of internet solidarity and support, everyone on the internet decided to fund this project. In 2014, the soon to be internet legend, Zack Brown got hungry and decided to make himself a potato salad. However, upon finding himself lacking the necessary funds to do the same, he decided to Kickstart his mixture. He requested the internet to give him $10 for a potato salad, about which Zack said, “I don’t even know what kind to make.” The salad and its Kickstarter went famous over the internet and the news. Soon donations started to pour in for the potato salad, and a bite of the same, and they Kickstarter managed to earn $55,492 in the end! This goal was stretched multiple times to feature a bigger and bigger event. In the end, Zack threw a giant Potato Salad party, attended by hundreds of people. They all made and partook in Potato Salad of every kind, also feeding the homeless around the city. The rest of the money, and the food from the event, was donated to different charities.

(Source: Kickstarter)

18. Saving Hermien the Dutch cow from slaughter by crowdfunding: A close contender for the weirdest reason for the internet to band together was the case of the escaped cow in the Netherlands. Hermien, the Dutch cow, was being loaded onto a truck to be taken to the slaughter-house. Hermien managed to fool her captors and escape, with the owners not able to find her for a week. Subsequently, when the news broke, someone on the internet decided to create a Kickstarter to save Hermien and keep her alive. The Kickstarter got incredibly famous, with Pieter van Vollenhoven, the former Queen Beatrice’ son – in – law, urging people to save Hermien. The cow raised nearly $60,000. Upon her eventual capture, she was handed to a farm named ‘De Leemweg,’ in the Zandhuizen region of Netherlands. This is a retirement home for cows, where unwanted cows can live out the rest of their lives in peace. The farm is totally dependent on donations and hence was very grateful for the $60,000 that was donated for the care of Hermien.

(Source: Daily Mail)

19. The diabolical birthday card getting funded on the internet: Have you ever heard a really poorly tuned musical card? It is honestly one of the most annoying things in the world. This thought also occurred to the creators of one of the most diabolical pieces of technology ever created. When brothers Travis and Nick Peterson were discussing exactly how annoying a musical birthday card they got was, they hit upon the idea of the perfect birthday card. They invented a card whose speaker was nearly indestructible, and also waterproof. Once the card is triggered, the speaker continually plays the birthday song for three hours! This speaker does not switch off until the battery runs out, or the speaker is destroyed. The speaker is capable of playing after being dipped in water, and even after being crushed with a variety of furniture. They also offer Christmas cards and will even put the song of your choice on a custom card. They put their project on Kickstarter and raised $92,073!

(Source: Kickstarter)

20. A giant replica of Lionel Richie’s head worth £8,000 debuted at a giant party: Lionel Richie is a famous American songwriter who is perhaps the most well-known for his song Hello, from which a line “Hello, is it me you’re looking for?” has been turned into a well-shared meme. He is hugely revered and respected for his music and has many die-hard fans. One of these fans, Hungry Castle, a Spanish artist, decided to create a giant sculpture of his head. He created a Kickstarter and almost overnight more than tripled his goal. His initial goal of creating a clay model seemed too small after that point, so he created a giant nylon head that was kept inflated with giant turbines and was weighed down by sandbags. It was debuted at the Bestival 2013, where it was very beloved. People could go inside the nylon head, alone, find a ringing phone, which they could pick up and listening to Lionel Richie’s line “Hello, is it me looking for?”. The head was then rented out to couples for $1000 per night, for spending a night in the head.

(Source: Kickstarter)

21. Break the record for the largest jockstrap using crowdfunding: Some projects are just too weird to even try and explain. The other projects on this list hole at least some appeal for the backers involved, be it for the internet memes and charity, as in the potato salad, or for helping to baffle people, like the skywriting project. There are projects that give people a cool product, like the salt shooting shotgun, or the chance to put a fictional vehicle in space. However, there is absolutely no way to explain this particular project in any conceivable way. Artist Michael Barret decided, seemingly out of nowhere, to break the record for the largest jockstrap in the world. He needed $750 for the same and asked the people of the internet to help him out. The internet community came together and funded the project for a grand total of $854, allowing the artist to create the largest jockstrap of all time. The answer to the question of why he wanted to do it is still up for grabs.

(Source: Kickstarter)

22. Write dumb things in the sky for $6800: Skywriting is the practice of using airplanes to create smoke/fog symbols and writing in the sky, invented by British navy pilots. This is often used for benign purposes like for airshows and for festivals. However, one person, Kurt Braunohler, saw the opportunity to write some stupid things in the sky. He created a Kickstarter page and requested people to give him money to write things like “How do I land?”, “Clouds 4 EVA”, “OMG I’m flying!”, “Tweet me, bro!” “God’s Fartin’!” in the sky above Los Angeles. People loved this idea so much that they decided to throw nearly $6800 at him, which enabled him to rent an airplane and fulfill his dream of utterly baffling the residents of Los Angeles.

(Source: Kickstarter)

23. Putting an actual TARDIS, with a camera and a hard drive and other sensors, in space: The Time And Relative Dimensions in Space (TARDIS) is the famous spacecraft from the British TV show Doctor Who. The TARDIS allows The Doctor to travel across space and time, and even across dimensions! However, unfortunately, the TARDIS is just a fictional craft, and so its fans cannot see it fly gracefully. Until, a group of fans created a Kickstarter page to raise the capital to send an actual TARDIS replica (built on a 1:100 scale) to space on the back of a SpaceX rocket, to celebrate the 50th-anniversary special. Unfortunately, the project, despite raising almost $89,000, was unsuccessful, and the TARDIS never flew.

(Source: Kickstarter)

24. Flinging POOP at each other for fun with crowdfunding: POOP jokes are always funny. Yes, they are, don’t try to deny it. The creator of POOP, the game also thinks so. POOP the game is a parody of the UNO game, having the same goal. A player must discard all their cards or “poop” into the table card, or the “toilet.” There are skip cards and reverse cards and even wild cards. The wild cards require the player to perform a particular action, like miming pooping and acting like a particular player farted. The game is full of such juvenile humor, but it got funded very well when the game creator Blaise Sewell put it on IndieGoGo, and the game raised nearly $34,000. This allowed Blaise to mass-produce the game and is now available from major toy retailers.

(Source: Board Game Geek)

25. Creating a crystal tribute to the best kind of meat of all, bacon: Bacon is inarguably the best tasting kind of meat on the market. The bacon fandom is vast and far-reaching, including one particular jeweler. This jeweler, Greg Kiesow, created a Kickstarter project to create crystal replicas of bacon. This includes earrings, lockets, and even bracelets, all made out of crystal. This project raised $2,786, all by people who love eating bacon! Each piece looks like strips of cooked bacon, complete with streaks of colored crystal to simulate strips of fat and muscle.

(Source: Kickstarter)

26. Eating a chicken burrito while skydiving: Burritos are amazing. Chicken Burritos are even more amazing. Chipotle makes a great chicken burrito. These are just some common facts. However, Noboru Nitoy wanted to prove this fact to the rest of the internet by eating and delivering a review of a chicken burrito. In classic internet fashion, people jumped on board the idea, and they funded the idea very quickly. The goal was met, and the video was created. However, the internet wanted more, and so a stretch goal of $1000 was made, which, if met, Noboru would review the chicken burrito while diving from an airplane! Even this video was created, and still exists online, where Noboru jumps out of a plane with a chicken burrito in hand and eats it while falling from thousands of feet in the sky. He then rated the burrito after landing safely. He created another stretch goal of $6,000 to eat the burrito while in a Zero-G plane! Unfortunately, this idea wasn’t funded, and the sky diving burrito man faded into internet anonymity.

(Source: Kickstarter)

27. Bug A – Salt created a shotgun that could shoot shells filled with table salt, which could any and all bugs: Bugs are the scourge of the existence of many people. They are present everywhere and every kind. Sometimes killing a bug with bug spray just doesn’t feel satisfying. Another, more satisfying, way of killing bugs is by smacking them with a bug swatter. However, forget all about that, because the most satisfying way of killing a bug has been invented. Please welcome the Bug A – Salt shotgun, a gun that can shoot ordinary table salt in a shotgun shell-like spread. The salt gets blasted out at a high enough velocity to kill almost any common bug but be essentially harmless to humans. This shotgun was first created as a project on IndieGoGo and became nearly instantly internet famous, getting overfunded within days. It is now a company that sells a large range of assault weapons and shotguns that shoot salt to kill any bugs.

(Source: IndieGoGo, Bug-A-Salt)

28. The eye-mask that lets its user live out the movie Inception: The movie Inception revolves around the concept of lucid dreaming, which allows dreamers to control their dreams. Lucid dreaming is classically achieved by people who train themselves to continuously perform reality checks, which enable them to realize the fact they are dreaming. After they realize that they are dreaming, the dreamers can control the dream. The Remeé eye mask enables them to easily get around the process of performing reality checks, by flashing a series of red lights at times of REM sleep as REM sleep is when a person dreams the most complex dreams. The mask was posted on Kickstarter and earned more than half a billion dollars. Remeé is now a successful company that sells a range of well-designed eye masks to help users sleep and dream.

(Source: Kickstarter, Remeé)

29. The pillow that makes you look like an ostrich who has buried their head into the sand: Ostriches are very known for burying their head in the sand, though it has been consistently proven to be false. The identity of ostriches has been closely tied with this misinformation. The fact being false didn’t stop the creators of the ostrich pillow from adopting the adage into their innovation, the Ostrich Pillow. The pillow is designed to fit over the wearer’s head completely, leaving the mouth and nose open for breathing. The pillow even has two smaller openings for the wearer’s hands. It can be used to nap anywhere with ease, on tables, in public transports, or even in an office. The pillow’s campaign on IndieGoGo was quickly funded by its supporters and is now a successful company selling three major products, all related to sleep aid.

(Source: Ostrich Pillow)

30. Have your hands smell like bacon after washing them with the Bacon Scented Soap: Would you like your hands to smell like freshly cooked bacon? Well, you’re in luck! The meat soap promises to do just that, make your hands smell like fresh bacon after you wash using the soap. The soap even looks like cooked bacon! There is nothing to not like about this product. Its Kickstarter page raised its $1,500 goal within just 12 days and currently stands at $1,905.  The creator of this soap also promises to bring along the scent of other famous meats as well, including steak, briskets, and smokey sausages.

(Source: Kickstarter)

Popular platforms

The success of any crowdfunding project depends very heavily upon the number of eyeballs that it draws. This is because the higher the number of people that view a project, the higher the chance a creator has of it getting fully funded. Hence, most plans are drawn to the most popular crowdfunding websites that allow millions of people to be aware of any project. So, let’s take a look at some of the most popular crowdfunding platforms, and see some statistics and facts related to them. We will also take a look at the exact way that they earn money or the perks that some platforms have over another.

1. GoFundMe: GoFundMe is by far the largest crowdfunding platform on the internet. It is mainly used for non-profit projects like charities, medical care, education, or even for personal trips and the purchase of a house or a car. People can upload their projects on the platform, along with anything they deem important, including videos, images, documents, audio clips, etc. GoFundMe has raised more than $5 billion for the projects on its platform, with nearly 50 million supporters using the platform. The platform doesn’t take any money from the total funds raised for any project, making it the ideal place for people to raise money for their personal reasons. The platform earns money via charging a 2.9% fee on all the donations that are made on the platform.

2. Kickstarter: Kickstarter is one of the most popular crowdfunding platforms. It allows people to create projects depicting their products or services for which they need to raise funds. These projects need to be accompanied by a video explaining their products and also create a set of documents explaining the same. These are just guidelines the Kickstarter provides to create a project, and often successful campaigns have all of these factors. The platform has raised over $3 billion for various projects, with nearly 15 million supporters visiting the platform. Kickstarter also lets creators offer the people who support their projects some sort of a small token, like an early version of the product or something smaller, like a t-shirt. The platform collects 5% of the entire fund collected for every successful project, as well as charging a 3% fee for all transactions on their platform.

3. IndieGoGo: IndieGoGo is a crowdfunding platform that focuses mainly on technology and hardware product launches. The platform is unique in the way that unlike other platforms, it offers creators a way to withdraw donated funds even if their projects weren’t funded fully. This lets individuals who aren’t completely confident about their idea’s public appeal bring the project to the platform and ensure that they at least get the support of some people, and not just if they fill their goals. IndieGoGo has as of yet managed to raise $1.5 billion over the years, with more than 10 million supporters. IndieGoGo takes a 5% cut of the total funds raised, or 9% cut in the case of withdrawing funding without the target goal being reached.

4. Patreon: Patreon is different from most other crowdfunding platforms, as it doesn’t operate on a lumpsum donation model. It works on a subscription model, which allows the so-called “Patrons” to pay a monthly subscription fee to content creators. These content creators are usually artists or channels on popular public platforms like YouTube or Spotify. These creators often give their Patrons special services or content. For example, gaming YouTubers may allow their Patrons to join lobbies to play with the content creators, or a musician could ask their patrons to weigh in on their next songs. As of 2019, creators have earned over $1 billion on the platform, with over 4 million Patrons who support one or more content creators over a period of many months.

Sources:

  1. Crowd Expert
  2. Valuates
  3. Startup
  4. Massolution
  5. Fundly
  6. Massolution
  7. Star Citizen, EuroGamer
  8. Kickstarter
  9. Flow, IndieGoGo
  10. Coolest
  11. BauBax, Kickstarter
  12. Exploding Kittens
  13. Dwarven Forge, Kickstarter
  14. Bragi
  15. Kickstarter, Oculus
  16. Elevation Labs
  17. Kickstarter
  18. Daily Mail
  19. Kickstarter
  20. Kickstarter
  21. Kickstarter
  22. Kickstarter
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  24. Board Game Geek
  25. Kickstarter
  26. Kickstarter
  27. IndieGoGo, Bug-A-Salt
  28. Kickstarter, Remeé
  29. Ostrich Pillow
  30. Kickstarter

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IoT (Internet of things) – 40 Fun Facts and Stats https://www.ebool.com/hub/iot-facts-and-stats/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 05:06:38 +0000 https://hub.pfind.com/?p=370 Considering the fact that IoT has been around for some while now, a lot of people have heard about it. It is starting to…

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Considering the fact that IoT has been around for some while now, a lot of people have heard about it. It is starting to emerge as the new most significant thing in the technological world. Hence, we don’t want to reiterate what you might already know about IoT but tell you some facts and figures about IoT. Before we get into it, let quickly take a refresher about IoT.

IoT stands for the Internet of Things. It is a concept that allows any and all devices to the internet and to other connected devices. These devices can then interface with each other for a variety of purposes. The IoT is mainly used for collecting and sharing data between the devices, after which the data is processed to give accurate details about the environment in which the devices are situated.

IoT includes a large variety of devices like Smart Microwaves, which can automatically cook food to the perfect temperature, to self-driving cars, which can drive the user to their destination by taking data from the internet, to avoid traffic or road closures, or any other kind of delay. IoT has become so important it is slowly becoming known as Industry 4.0. This is in reference to the fact that IoT is now colloquially known as the fourth major industrial revolution, after the steam engine, the advent of mass production, and the computer.

Here we will first look at some figures concerning IoT devices and the industry surrounding it. We will then follow it up with understanding the threats that IoT can pose to its users, and then finish with some examples of the use of IoT that you might not expect.

Quick Facts

IoT has improved the standard of lives everywhere and has made a lot of lives more streamlined. This helps their users in being quicker about their lives and focus on what’s important. Here we take a cue from IoT devices and bring you some fast facts.

  1. There will be nearly 64 billion IoT devices in the world by the end of 2025.
  2. Only 1% of all data generated through IoT is utilized effectively.
  3. The first massively used IoT device were ATMs, which came online in 1974.
  4. $60 trillion will be invested in the industrial IoT sector by the end of 2030.
  5. The smart wearables market grew to be worth almost $25 billion by the end of 2019.

Adoption of IoT

Before starting the article, we will look at how pervasive IoT has become in the various aspects of life. The introduction of any new technology, especially one as ubiquitous as IoT is going to shake up any industry, no matter the origin or consumer base that they service. We will comprehensively look at sectors, personal adoption, and the future of IoT in general. 

1. There will be 20.4 billion devices connected to the internet by the end of 2020: Considering how young the IoT market is, it is a monument to its success that so many people have adopted IoT into their lives, both private and corporate. In the 10 years that IoT has begun to pick up steam, the number of devices connected to the internet and the cloud has increased a lot. By the end of 2020, Gartner estimates that there will be 20.4 billion devices connected to the internet. Keep in mind that these devices don’t include computing devices like smartphones, tablets, and computers of any kind.

(Source: Gartner)

2. By the end of 2020, 90% of new automobiles will be IoT devices: Automobiles have been increasingly growing smarter in the recent past. Automobiles today have a lot of features that rely heavily on being connected to the internet. Some of these features are navigation software like Google maps, entertainment software like Spotify, and even having the ability to have your car ping your phone if you can’t find it in a parking lot. These automobiles can now be classified as IoT devices already. In fact, by the end of 2020, nine out of ten automobiles being sold will be IoT devices. However, this can be very dangerous, as well.

(Source: ZDNet)

3. Every second, 127 new devices are connected to the IoT: When the internet started becoming widely available for the public, there was just one way to access it, and that was via computers and a dial-up modem. Then came the advent of mobile phones, which gave the public any easy way to access the internet on the go. This started to change with the rise of IoT. With the IoT watches, wallets, even shows, and flip flops can connect to the internet now. The situation has progressed so much that each and every second, there are 127 new devices that are getting connected to the internet. Again, keep in mind that this figure doesn’t consist of smartphones, tablets, or computers of any kind. This means that by the time you have finished reading this article, nearly 125,000 new devices will have connected to the internet.

(Source: Politico)

4. 80% of all telecommunication companies see value beyond just connectivity in IoT: Telecommunication companies are responsible for providing internet to consumers, based upon which the entire IoT industry revolves. Keeping aside all debate about telecommunication companies trying to commercialize the internet further, most of them have indicated that they see the IoT industry as more than just a platform that they can facilitate. More than four out of five telecommunication companies have stated that they would like to become IoT service providers and trying to create IoT devices that will enhance user experiences. However, 70% of them stated that they do not have a goal or plan in mind and are instead choosing to approach the IoT industry with a broad mindset, trying to explore multiple avenues.

(Source: Gigabit)

5. More than 70% of the value will be generated through business to business interactions by the end of 2025: As we discussed, businesses spend a lot more on a lesser number of devices as compared to consumers. These corporate interactions, called business to business interaction, account for a large amount of the revenue being generated in the IoT industry. Business to business IoT devices consist of devices to optimize production and share information between the various sections of a company. This is also reflected in the fact that factories accounted for nearly 23% of all IoT device spending. The least amount of spending in the IoT industry is for the home automation and the office environment markets. This may come as a surprise to people since home automation is the most visible part of the IoT industry.

(Source: McKinsey)

6. Around 90% of the value in benefits from IoT will be captured by consumers: The IoT industry has a lot of benefits that it can provide to its users. Even when it comes to factory and manufacturing uses, these benefits are mainly only felt by either the company’s financial beneficiaries or by the consumers. In fact, the consumers can reap as much as 90% of the benefit from the adoption of IoT in various shapes and forms. Some examples of this are fairly easy to see, like when Amazon adopted IoT devices to optimize their warehouses to maintain their one-day delivery guarantee, the consumers can reap the benefit. Another example is when Google uses IoT to track traffic metrics and provide live updates to consumers about their commute. A life-saving example pertains to the wearable monitoring systems that hospitals have begun to use to aid in monitoring chronically- ill patients. Speaking as a consumer, this fact makes me especially happy!

(Source: McKinsey)

7. Four in five industrial manufacturing organizations are using or will use IoT devices: As we have seen, the industrial applications of IoT are very varied and expansive. The modern industrial complex has already realized this and has started to undertake a project to adopt IoT into their manufacturing processes. According to ZD Net’s market research, nearly 82% of all industries have either already adopted IoT or have started pilot projects to facilitate the integration of IoT within their structures. The major industries that haven’t already adopted or are looking to adopt IoT are the oil and coal industries. They have stated that this is mainly due to the fact that most of these companies have slowed down expansion in the face of rising costs of extraction and the falling relevance of oil and coal in the modern world.

(Source: ZDNet)

8. Nearly 90% of all senior executives in the technology industry say that IoT is critical to their growth: In a shocking turn of events, IoT is a technological innovation that even most senior executives understand the importance of. These executives may not understand the importance of securing these devices, but they can attest to their relevance to their companies. According to Hewlett – Packard’s research, nine in ten senior executives from the technological field, they claim that IoT is critical to their growth, and state that their adoption of IoT puts them ahead of their competition.

(Source: Aruba News)

9. By 2021, nearly 85% of all retailers will be using IoT to customize customer experiences: another sector where the adoption of IoT is rapidly rising is the retail industry. Despite the proliferation of e-commerce stores in the current day and age, brick and mortar shops still make a lot of money. Now, with the advent of IoT, these retailers are aiming to provide a more personalized experience to their customers. IoT helps retailers in a variety of ways. For example, if a customer is driving past a brick and mortar shop, they can send them time-sensitive coupons to incentivize purchases. Retailers can also track purchases and the price that customers are willing to pay for them, so they can adjust their prices accordingly, and even notify the customers of the drop in prices.

(Source: SAS)

10. Manufacturing connections grew more than 204.5% every year since 2013: As we have stated, the manufacturing industry is the largest user of IoT devices, are the driving force behind a lot of IoT growth. This makes it no surprise that the market connections between the manufacturing industry and the IoT industry grew at the average rate of 204% every year since 2013. This is an extremely high level of growth as the smart home devices form connections at an increasing rate of only 82%. This means that IoT is being adopted by industries at more than double the rate of home innovation devices!

(Source: Verizon)

11. Two – thirds of all US cities are adopting smart devices for public management: It is not just the private sector that the IoT benefits it benefits the government as well. As many as two-thirds of all US cities are rapidly adopting smart devices for public management. This includes things like smart parking meters, to monitor usage, and to prevent people from cheating the system, also removing the need for meter maids. There are also intelligent traffic lights that can learn the volume of cars on a regular basis and to change the timing of the lights to match the volume of flow.

(Source: TechRepublic)

12. The number of smart clothing (IoT connected) units sold saw 71.6% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) rise: A surprisingly large market has emerged for IoT devices, and that is smart clothing. These clothing are made for a lot of reasons, from compression shirts to monitor breathing and heart rate, to baby monitors that can be worn by a baby and functions as a full hospital kit monitoring the baby in real-time. They can measure anything from heart rate to blood oxygen level to even the sleep and dream patterns! There are even t-shirts with a led screen that can display whatever they want. The number of IoT enabled clothing is increasing at a tremendous rate, with the growth of the industry seeing a 71.5% CAGR increase, which is smaller than the biggest industry in the market, but still higher than a lot of others.

(Source: Markets and Markets)

13. Samsung holds the award for the greatest number of patents filed under the category of IoT: Samsung, the tech giant, is the company that is investing most money into Research and Development (R&D). Samsung has nearly 9550 patents for the IoT category. These patents are mostly under connectivity technology like 5G technology and creating a new version of Bluetooth. In the current IoT world, nearly 75% of them use Samsung parts or technology in one way, shape, or form.

(Source: IoT Sense)

Financial Figures

The adoption figures don’t always show the whole picture. To understand the prevalence of the industry, it is imperative that we get an idea of the financial aspect of the IoT industry as well. In this section, we will explore the state and growth of the industry as a whole, and also look at some sections of the IoT industry in-depth, focusing on the major parts of the industry. Keep in mind that when we talk about internet-enabled devices, we will exclude smartphones and computers completely.

14. Globally, companies will invest nearly $15 trillion by the end of 2025: Investment in the field of IoT has been rising rapidly in the past few years. We have seen IoT penetrate every industry from healthcare to automobiles, to home electronics, and more. This has led to a considerable boom in the investment being poured into the field, with some reports suggesting that as much as $9 trillion were invested into IoT in 2018. This figure is expected to rise sharply to reach $15 trillion in investments by the end of 2025.

(Source: Business Insider)

15. The global economic impact of IoT will be $3.9 trillion to $11 trillion by the end of 2025: As the investment into IoT grows, as will the impact that IoT has on the global economy. IoT provides a new way to optimize every manufacturing and supply chain process, from monitoring factories to creating optimal distribution networks. According to research conducted by the McKinsey research and analytics company, it is expected that by the end of 2025, IoT will have a substantial economic impact on the global stage. The lower estimates put the figure at $3.9 trillion, with some estimated putting the impact as high as even $11 trillion, and beyond.

(Source: McKinsey)

16. The home IoT market is expected to grow to $53.45 billion by the end of 2022: On the consumer side, one of the most popular applications of IoT are home smart appliances like smart speakers, lighting, and even intelligent microwaves. This market, though smaller than its corporate cousin by far, is still estimated to grow at a rapid pace. Zion market research estimates that, by the end of 2022, the home IoT market will be worth nearly $53.45 billion, with the most growth being shown in IoT controllers, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home systems.

(Source: Zion Market Research)

17. The Global IoT Healthcare Market is expected to reach nearly $140 billion by the end of 2024: Another massive market for IoT in the healthcare system. There are many applications for IoT when it comes to caring for humans. Some basic examples are wearable bracelets that track the heart rate and blood oxygen level for individuals with a heart condition, devices that can track the blood sugar level and suggest changes for an insulin dosage for diabetic people, and even devices that can inform medical professionals if the wearer suffers from a heart attack, or any other situation that prevents the patient from calling ambulances themselves. This market is expected to reach nearly $140 billion by the end of 2024.

(Source: Zion Market Research)

18. Business spending on IoT accounts for almost 57.04% of all IoT related spending: The two major sections of IoT customers are the business-related markets and the consumer markets. These markets are relatively close when it comes to IoT related spending. Even so, the business spending counts for around 57.04% of the expenditure in the IoT market. This is because, even though consumers buy way more devices, business tend to spend a lot more on IoT based systems that help them optimize their processes. This disparity will only rise in the future as consumer IoT devices get cheaper, and more and more businesses invest in IoT.

(Source: Gartner)

19. The largest IoT based acquisition was by Softbank, who purchased ARM for $31 billion: New and smaller companies often lead the charge when it comes to innovation of new technology. These start-ups can become giant companies, like with Amazon, or get acquired by a larger company to work with their resources. These acquisitions can often be extensive and can lead to some companies being bought for vast sums of money. The biggest acquisition of an IoT based company was when SoftBank, a Japanese investment conglomerate, bought ARM for a reported sum of $31 billion dollars. This was by far the most valuable IoT related purchase. The second largest is $5.6 billion, which Google invested in purchasing a smaller company.

(Source: The Verge)

20. The IoT security solutions industry will grow to be worth almost $840 million by the end of 2020: With the rise of the IoT industry, it is not a surprise that there are a lot of concerns about the security and flaws of the system. In the following section, we will take a look at these concerns. However, lets first take a look at the IoT security industry. It is a smaller subset of general cloud-based security, which focuses entirely on making sure that all IoT devices protect the information with which they are trusted. By some estimates, the industry will grow to be worth by the end of 2020.

(Source: Zion Market Research)

Challenges Facing IoT

The IoT technology, no matter its potential, does have some drawbacks and challenges to its adoption. Both the critics and the supporters of this technology share the same sentiment regarding these challenges and the lack of solutions that the current industry provides. These problems need to be addressed before IoT sees the expansion that the industry desires. Let’s take a look into the issues that IoT faces and try to see if there are any viable solutions for the same.

21. Nearly 40% of the rural areas in developed or developing countries don’t have sufficient internet access: IoT obviously needs the internet to function, that’s right in the name. Hence without a stable internet connection to them, 24/7 IoT devices may not function appropriately. This is not an issue in a highly urban area, where Wi-Fi and data are cheap and easily available, but in rural areas, this is really difficult to get. Hence IoT devices are overwhelmingly adopted in the urban areas. As much as 40% of the global population lives in a rural setting, where internet access isn’t stable enough to host IoT devices.

(Source: Brookings Institute)

22. More than 60% of people who own a router have never updated the firmware on them: Routers are the backbone of a successful IoT network. They provide the platform for all IoT devices to gain access to the cloud, from wherein they can be controlled. That, unfortunately, makes routers the easiest target for any hacker. This is exasperated by the fact that most routers run on extremely outdated software. More than three out of every five routers don’t ever see a security update. This means that some homes and businesses are running on more than 5 years old routers. Now since IoT devices collect an unprecedented amount of data about you, a router being hacked can cause a massive loss of information.

(Source: Internet of Business)

23. Almost 90% of developers working on IoT products believe that these products don’t have enough security features: Each IoT device has a team of developers who write the code for the device, thereby making them the people who have to secure the device. With the loud public outcry, one would have to assume that the developers are confident about the security of their device, right? Not true. Nine out of ten developers working for IoT devices say that they don’t believe that these products have enough security features. This means that, logically, 90% of the devices on the market could be compromised.

(Source: Innovation Enterprise)

24. 85% of developers state that they feel forced to rush out products without enough time to address security concerns: Due to the earlier fact, one will wonder, why can’t the developers just write more/better code for their products? It turns out, developers agree with you.However, due to the comparatively shorter hardware cycle of a product, developers often cannot implement the feature they otherwise would have. This problem is so prevalent that 90% of the developers developing IoT devices claimed they faced it. Unfortunately, due to the rapid evolution of technology and the even faster rate of software evolution, these concerns will not be met with any change any time soon. This is scary since:

(Source: Innovation Enterprise)

25. Almost three – quarters of IoT devices on the market currently have one or other major security concerns: As we said, as many as 90% of the devices may be compromised on the internet. The truth is only slightly better. Only 75% of the devices have a major security flaw. These are, of course, the known flaws, so the number may as well have been 90%. The fact is that these devices will definitely get hacked into. So as of right now, the damage is still mostly benign. However, with automobiles and healthcare being the next industry to see a boom, a security flaw could prove deadly.

(Source: Entrepreneur India)

26. Only one in four organizations have the data scientists required to reap the full benefits from IoT devices: IoT is just a web of devices that record data about you then sends to their parent company for processing. This data is then sued to optimize your device to your needs and also helps the company conduct research into what the people want and how they use their devices. This processing needs to be done by a data scientist. Unfortunately, due to the massive demand for data scientists, most companies re unable to take advantage of the data they collect.

(Source: Gartner)

27. It only takes 5 minutes for any IoT device to be attacked since being connected to the internet: To just a get a sense of how prevalent IoT device attacks are, consider the fact that on an average, it only takes 5 minutes for a new IoT device to be attacked by a potential hacker. That means that in the time interval between you setting your Alexa up and you giving it the second command, it could already be compromised in one way or another! This is possible due to the fact that most major IoT devices are constructed by a well-known company whose servers are nearly constantly being attacked in search of an exploit. It takes only one day for the device to be targeted by exploits specifically made for it.

(Source: Netscout)

28. IoT security experts are IT (Information Technology) professionals and not OT (Operating Technology) professionals: Now comes the other major problem with IoT devices and their developers. IoT developers primarily work with IT and not OT. It is the use of coding to create programs that work on a particular platform. Other devices, working on the platform as well, will then for the IoT. Unfortunately, a lot of problems with IoT devices themselves, which work on a system not designed for them. OT developers are responsible for the creation of operating platforms that the IoT works on. OT developers often lag much behind hackers due to a variety of reasons, from sheer numbers to the fact that hackers can often be backed by powerful governments.

(Source: TechRepublic)

Unusual Examples of IoT

Throughout this article, we have been talking about the various ways that IoT has been adopted into industries and consumers’ life. However, while most IoT applications serve to enrich the lives of those that use it, some forms of IoT are just too weird. Necessity might be the mother of innovation, but the following products make us question how many actually feel the necessity that they are trying to address.

29. Catching bed bugs with the internet’s help!: Everyone can agree on the fact that bedbugs are extremely annoying to deal with. These tiny little invisible pests can cause havoc and are the cause of many a sleepless night. However, if you bedbug spray is just isn’t enough to deal with them, and you desire to use an arguably smarter method of securing your bed against these tiny bugs, look no further than Valpas’ smart bed legs! These bed legs feature a proven method of bedbug catching, i.e., the falling method, which trap any bed bug climbing onto the bed in the bed legs themselves. A sensor inside the leg then notifies an application on the user’s smartphone, telling them about the number of bugs it has caught. Valpas has been very popular with hotel chains, who can use it to monitor a bed bug invasion and decide based on the numbers whether or not they require an extermination service.

(Source: Valpas)

30. Don’t want to smell your baby’s diaper to see if they have pooped? IoT has your back!: The age-old method of seeing if a diaper involves some really disgusting prospects of sniffing the baby’s bottom to see if they’ve soiled their diaper or not. Many a parent or caretaker are understandably uncomfortable with the practice, and now they can choose to turn to IoT to help them out! Smardii’s smart diapers are waterproof diapers, which claim to be reusable up to 300 times. These diapers come equipped with sensors that can monitor a baby’s bottom and informs parents of an impending change almost immediately. Smardii also has adult-sized diapers for any individual suffering from incontinence. The immediate attention given to a full diaper can prevent a whole host of health issues that prolonged exposure can bring.

(Source: Smardii)

31. You can display your tweets using Ballantine’s T-Shit OS: Twitter and emojis may be a gift from God, or the things causing society to collapse, depending on the person you ask. However, the graphics company Ballantine is firmly in the camp that believe that an individual’s tweets and mood are worth sharing with anyone with whom they come into contact. Here is where Ballantine’s T-Shirt OS comes in handy. This product features an ultra-thin LED screen sewed directly into the fabric of a t-shirt. This LED screen links up to an application on the wearer’s smartphone, which can then be configured to display anything that the user desires. The application features a live link to the wearer’s twitter feed and comes with a library of nearly 200 fully animated emojis. So, get out there and show the world that you’re feeling 😊.

(Source: AdAge)

32. Would you like for your friends to know exactly how drunk you are? Welcome the DrunkDuino: No matter your personal opinions about Twitter, you cannot deny that it is an effective way to get your thoughts across to your peers in a simple way. Now with the DrunkDuino, you can put out more than just your thoughts to your Twitter feed. The DrunkDuino combines a Netduino with a breathalyzer module to constantly measure the alcohol content in your bloodstream. The 2’x2’ device can be hooked to the collar of an individual’s shirt, and from there can produce a result that is up to 90% accurate. The Netduino then interfaces with the user’s smartphone and constantly updates their twitter with details regarding the user’s state of inebriation. The updates can be similar to something like “Mark is completed hammered as of 10:58:07 AM”. The device is in the prototype stage currently.

(Source: DuckNetWeb)

33. Never run out of fresh eggs with Quirky’s Egg Minder: Has it ever happened to you that you just got back from the grocery store in the morning, you bought a ton of groceries, everything from ketchup to a nice prime steak. For breakfast, you desire a large plate of fresh scrambled eggs, so you go to your fridge, but BAM, you’re out of eggs or the eggs you have gone completely bad. With Quirky’s Egg Minder, you never have to be in this position ever! It is a smart egg holder, which can hold up to 14 eggs together (and annoyingly enough not 12, like most commercial packs) and monitors them constantly. It connects to the user’s smartphone and informs them when they are running low on eggs and can even monitor the health of the eggs, so the user never has to eat a bad egg ever again. Unfortunately, the idea didn’t appeal to a lot of people, and the product was discontinued in 2018.

(Source: Quirky)

34. Keep an eye on your dog with Furbo’s IoT treat dispenser and camera: A dog is a man’s best friend. Leaving your best friend alone at home while you go to work can be a stressful experience for both your dog and you. If you’re worried about your dog missing you while you’re gone, you might want to invest in the Furbo. The Furbo is basically like a baby monitor, but for your furry baby. It features a camera and a two-way speaker, so you can keep an eye on your dog, and even speak to them. It also has a bark monitor that sends you a notification if your dog is barking too much. However, the best about Furbo is its treat-dispensing capabilities. If you feel like your dog has done something that deserves to be rewarded, you can instruct the Furbo to shoot out their favorite treat!

(Source: Furbo)

35. Have a personalized water drinking schedule with Hidrate Spark’s smart water bottle: If you’re among the kind of people that struggle with drinking the correct amount of water in a day, then you might want to obtain Hidrate Spark’s smart water bottle. This bottle, which holds 24 ounces of water, reminds you to take a drink of water if you’re falling behind your hydration schedule. It also reminds you to fill it up when necessary. It even interfaces with various fitness applications to track how much exercise you are doing and adjusts your hydration schedule accordingly. It even features a ‘learning’ period, wherein you can turn off the hydration schedule completely, and the bottle will instead learn exactly how much water you drink daily and adjust its parameters accordingly.

(Source: Hidrate Spark)

36. If dental hygiene is crucial to you, then a smart toothbrush might be for you: Visits to the dentist is something that most people despise. People are so lax when it comes to going to the dentists, that some dentist’s offices resort to very creative ways to remind people to visit regularly. However, if one believes that they only need to go to the dentist when absolutely required, they might want to take a look at Prophix’s smart toothbrush. This toothbrush takes photos and videos of the inside of the user’s mouth. These photos and videos are then processed by the application on the smartphone and can identify any rising concern. This can give the user an early warning about any dental hygiene issue like cavities, plaque build-ups, and even impending gum troubles. This enables the user to contact the dentist on their leisure and nip any issues in the bud.

(Source: Prophix)

37. A wine bottle that doesn’t go stale and can give you vital information about the wine you’re drinking: A big part of the issue that wine enthusiasts have with wine is that once a wine bottle is opened, oxygen is introduced into the wine. This causes degradation of the wine, spoiling the taste and hence rendering the wine unpalatable to many enthusiasts. One company tried to fix this issue by utilizing IoT to upgrade wine bottles and bring them into the smart world. The Kuveé smart wine bottle consists of a sleeve that a wine canister can fit into. This sleeve has a touchscreen on its front that can display information about the wine that is being drunk. This information includes the kind of grapes that wine was made with, the area of the world the vineyard was based in, and even what food would pair well with the wine. The Kuveé bottle could only be fitted with canisters created by the company themselves. However, the bottle was not well received by wine enthusiasts, who cited the lack of range of wines available for purchase. The business shut down in 2017, citing the fires in Napa Valley, where most of the wine the company was selling was sourced from, as the main reason.

(Source: Business Insider)

38. If you don’t know anything about cooking, but desire the perfect baked salmon? Say hi to June intelligent ovens: For a novice chef, trying to figure out cooking temperatures and methods can be a huge hassle. The intelligent June Oven aims to solve many of the problems that novice chefs face. It uses cameras and machine learning algorithms to identify the foodstuff put inside of it. The oven then cooks the food to the perfect state, as requested by the user. The oven even remembers the exact way that the chef prefers to have their food, for example, if the chef prefers to have their steak medium instead of medium-rare, the oven will remember that for the next time. The oven can even suggest changes that the chef can make to their schedule to cook what they like by suggesting the time that they need to spend on preparing ingredients and raw materials for the same.

(Source: June Oven)

39. Tired of measuring and pouring out salt at every meal? Introducing the smart salt-shaker!: Are you tired of shaking your salt-shaker over every single meal every day? No? Well, the Smalt-shaker still has your back! The shaker has a touchscreen on its top where the user can select the exact amount of salt that they need, in terms of grams or even tea-spoons. This can even be achieved using the attached application available. The application also has settings to manipulate the RGB led that rings the shaker and can play music over the speakers integrated speakers! However, shockingly, people prefer their regular old shakers, which can actually grind up salt, something that the Smalt-shaker couldn’t do. The project was underfunded on IndieGoGo the current status of the project is unknown.

(Source: IndieGoGo)

40. Make cleaning up and taking the trash out interesting with the Bruno Smartcan: The small line of dust that remains on the ground after scooping up dirt and trash onto a dustpan is the bane of existence for many individuals. Then there is also the issue of forgetting to put the trash out for collection, and then having multiple weeks’ worth of trash pile up in your house. The Bruno Smartcan was created for individuals just like these. It features a small, but powerful, vacuum at its bottom that sucks up any remaining dirt and debris, and delivers it straight into the trash bag, or Bruno Bag as it’s called. The trashcan notifies the user when it is full, and even reminds the user when their trash day is coming up, so that they may remember to put the trash bin out. The can’s app also tells the user when they are running low on trash bags, so they never run out.

(Source: Bruno Smartcan)

Data Sources and References

  1. Gartner
  2. ZD Net
  3. Politico
  4. Gigabit
  5. McKinsey
  6. McKinsey
  7. ZD Net
  8. Aruba News
  9. SAS
  10. Verizon
  11. TechRepublic
  12. Markets and Markets
  13. IoT Sense
  14. Business Insider
  15. McKinsey
  16. Zion Market Research
  17. Zion Market Research
  18. Gartner
  19. The Verge
  20. Zion Market Research
  21. Brookings Institute
  22. Internet of Business
  23. Innovation Enterprise
  24. Innovation Enterprise
  25. Entrepreneur India
  26. Gartner
  27. Netscout
  28. TechRepublic
  29. Valpas
  30. Smardii
  31. AdAge
  32. DuckNetWeb
  33. Quirky
  34. Furbo
  35. Hidrate Spark
  36. Prophix
  37. Business Insider
  38. June Oven
  39. IndieGoGo
  40. Bruno Smartcan

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