Observed arrival · 2026-08-23

Benjamin Hagbi, Solo Builder of a Marketplace That Negotiates the Price

benhagbi.dev Observed source

Editorial interest 82/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

Benjamin Hagbi’s portfolio documents AI, payments, and full-stack engineering work, centered on Mula, a local-services marketplace with automated pricing and LLM-mediated negotiation.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-23 issue.

Why it surfaced

Instead of stopping at AI vocabulary, the site traces a job from “my fence is falling over” through photo analysis, regional labor-rate search, bounded pricing, bidding, and Stripe escrow. It is an unusually concrete portrait of one engineer trying to make probabilistic software handle the awkward human economics of local work.

Benjamin Hagbi’s portfolio documents AI, payments, and full-stack engineering work, centered on Mula, a local-services marketplace with automated pricing and LLM-mediated negotiation.

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$PaidCommerce or pricing visible

✦PrettyNotable craft visible

●ProPolished or operationally mature

◎NicheUnusually specific use

◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade

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