An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid as if they were there in the room, with the auctioneer
Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as many simultaneous auctions as possible Requirements:
- auctions must be categorized and 'discoverable'
- auctions must be as real-time as possible
- auctions must be mixed live and online
- video stream of the action after the fact
- handle money exchange
- participants must be tracked via a reputation index
Additional Context:
- auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
- if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
- budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
- company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud
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