Harriet created and designed the website, found an office in Manchester, and built her team of ‘Heads of Hazaar.’ Now, just days away from launch, Hazaar is ready for the world. Harriet’s aim was to reach a target of 150K pre-seed investment and she smashed this within just one month after raising the money from seven different investors. It no longer made sense to her to order a new costume when someone ‘two doors down probably had the same one lying on their bedroom floor’īuilding the app has meant that it has been a busy year for Harriet, the founder and CEO of Hazaar. As Harriet explains, it really is ‘as simple as that.’ After the item is bought, it will be handed over on campus, the unique code scanned, and the money will be released into your account. The Facebook group grew quickly, and was rebranded to be called ‘Hazaar.’ The page explains that ‘by cutting out postage we are reducing wasteful packaging and travel miles.’ Now, Harriet is preparing for the launch of the Hazaar app, which will be here on November 8th.īut how will it work? The app allows students the chance to buy and sell second hand items online. Harriet explained that it no longer made sense to her to order a new costume when someone ‘two doors down probably had the same one lying on their bedroom floor’. The idea for the platform came about after Harriet realised how often her and her friends would hop onto Amazon Prime to order a new outfit for Sports Night each week, and how unsustainable this habit was. Students could post pictures of clothes they no longer wanted and someone else could buy them Then, instead of shipping the clothes, the buyer and seller could simply meet up and exchange the money for the clothes, thus cutting out the packaging and time wasted in shipping items. The premise was simple: Students could post pictures of clothes they no longer wanted and someone else could buy them. The app originally began as a Facebook group titled ‘Bepop,’ similar to ‘Depop’ but for students at the University of Birmingham. The UK’s very first zero waste student marketplace app has been created by University of Birmingham alumnus Harriet Noy.

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