We helps travelers avoid taxi scams. The app gives you the average price for a taxi ride in foreign countries, to help you haggle a fair price. Haggelstar merges features from Google Maps with local taxi prices along with a “translate address to driver” option to make sure the driver always understands where you want to go. In countries where English isn’t widely used, misunderstanding and stressful scenarios are likely to happen, and the address translator will help minimize that risk.
Michael Johansen had experienced the taxi scam several times from a vacation in Bali, and when he came back to Denmark, where fixed prices are standard, he wanted to dig deeper into the world of haggling when traveling in foreign countries. He decided to address the problem with friend and former colleague, Lea Kilde, who grabbed the idea immediately. After tons of coffee meetings, brainstorming and doodles they came up with the brilliant idea to help future travellers avoid taxi scams.
The two instantly teamed up and the startup Haggelstar was born. Shortly after the digital agency, Jungle Coders joined the company as an early investor to ensure the tech side of the product.