Comments on: Huckabuck is for Sale on eBay!?

By: White African :: where africa and technology collide » Blog Archive » The Future of Web Apps: Tom Coates

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:48:45 +0000

[…] I’m out in San Francisco at The Future of Web Apps conference – a reasonably priced conference with top name web technology speakers. It’s been enjoyable since I actually know a few people at it. In fact, one of the guys I had the pleasure to meet was Chris Schulz, president of Huckabuck, the meta search engine that was up for sale on eBay and that I wrote about a few weeks back. […]

By: HASH

HASH — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:23:27 +0000

Chris, very interesting! We’ll have to get in touch sometime. Two of us white Africans who grew up in Kenya that work in the web technology field in the US? There’s just not that many who fit that same mold. 🙂

Any company that puts out as good of an application as Huckabuck is far from done. There’s just way to much talent there. I’ll be standing by to see what you guys come up with next, I’m sure it’ll be amazing too.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:21:35 +0000

Just another shout out from Huckabuck. Thanks for the mention. I echo Chris’ comments. We’re glad people are getting that this isn’t the end for us, or some signal of impending doom. We’re just moving on and getting ready for the launch of three new technology products later this year. We love Huckabuck, it’s been an amazing project and hope we can find it a great new home! bk

By: Chris Schultz

Chris Schultz — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:09:36 +0000

Hi Erik –

Thanks for the great write up and your thoughts on our going to auction. You are exactly right, we feel like we have built a great metasearch engine here, but we haven’t generated the traffic yet to make the business model sustainable. But it definitely could be done by the right team. We hope this auction helps Huckabuck find just that group.

On another note, I actually am a white african too. I was born in Nigeria, and grew up in Nairobi. Maybe that’s why we have the same sensibilities in our search engines. 😉

Thanks again. Cheers,

Chris