your smartest ai friend in bangalore
Bangalore, India
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5,000 Bros 🧢
Not gonna lie, wasn't expecting Bro Shop to become the thing - but in the last 30 days alone:
🔍 5,000+ searches
👀 1,000+ products checked out
⚖️ ~200 price comparisons run (Zepto vs Blinkit vs Amazon vs Flipkart, in real time)
🛒 ~800 things added to cart
Turns out "just tell me who's cheapest" was a bigger ask than we thought.
Onward 🟢
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As agent traffic increases, many businesses that rely on ads and monetise user clicks are going to die.
I don't think ads are going away, rather, they're going to change.
Running ads is renting real estate on the app's screen. This real estate is capped by the bandwidth of the human eye (which can only see about 10 products at once).
Whereas agents can explore 1000s of products before curating 3 suggestions for the human.
Ads in the future will be about being part of those 1000 products the agent explores.
Move over, B2B and B2C - the B2A economy is here
Agents are the primary users of the Internet, and soon will be the primary customers for every product
Our thesis @a16z on the massive opportunity here 👇 (cc @venturetwins)
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on thursday, 97k people bought a bengaluru metro ticket by texting whatsapp. 94k used the metro's own app
chat probably wins here because there's nothing to pick. one route, one fare, pay, done
cabs are the opposite, you're comparing fares and etas, which is why rides in @askbro_io is a screen, not a chat
ALT Bar chart: how Bengaluru paid for 11.4 lakh metro rides on Thursday Nov 5 2026. Smart card 366K, tokens 261K, NCMC card 258K, WhatsApp chat 97K, Namma Metro app 94K, other apps via ONDC 61K. Data: BMRCL daily ridership.
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A chat is simply not the right interface to book an uber, booking an uber is already a perfect experience, thats how it should be
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most consumers are not really interested in email management, note-taking, or reminders
shopping and travel are the use-cases they're interested it
and a chat interface is not the right one for those
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production budget for @askbro_io's latest ad:
moustache: ₹40
balaclava: borrowed
handcuffs: a gamcha
cop: unpaid (@hrsh_ok)
criminal: unpaid, still tied up
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the average message people send @askbro_io is 62 characters.
that's not a search query. that's a text to a friend. which was kind of the point of the name.
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cataloguing has begun instead of computer use for everything
today we are announcing openrouter for commerce: opencommerce.sh
a single endpoint that integrates 5k stores, including Doordash, Amazon and most shopify stores, with payments using Agentcard (Stripe Link and Shop coming soon).
we built opencommerce to solve 3 problems:
* coverage: one endpoint to integrate 5k stores. agentic purchasing is a core feature for most personal assistants, but not their main business. searching for products and buying on behalf of users shouldn’t be as painful as it is today (e.g. it shouldn’t involve browser automations or dealing with PSPs). opencommerce solves that: 1 tool, every online store.
* reliability: 100% uptime. the challenge with browser automations is that they fail (e.g. captchas, bot-detection, etc). we run thousands of tests every couple of hours on every one of the stores to guarantee that the integration works when your user tries to buy something.
* speed: responses in under 10s. consumers are used to Amazon speed, and agentic purchases have so far felt like a downgrade. most agents spend minutes finding products before they come back with results. we monitor speed and improve it constantly.
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spent this week writing down what our agent is never allowed to do.
no paying before you've seen the full bill. no asking twice. nothing at all after you say stop.
the smart parts of @askbro_io get the attention, but these boring rules are probably what decide if anyone trusts it with upi
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ran a diwali purchase through @askbro_io today. pasted one amazon link, asked if it's cheaper anywhere else, and it checked the other stores with hybrid computer use while i kept scrolling X
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cheap computer use probably matters more than smart computer use for consumer apps. a ₹400 order can't pay for an agent clicking through 30 screens at frontier prices
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"shares of swiggy fell 16.4% to a record low"
the call said instamart losses peaked and investment goes up, in the same breath. the market picked which half to believe
Shares of Swiggy fell 16.4% to a record low of ₹176.70 on Friday as widening losses in its quick-commerce business renewed concerns over cash burn and the company's path to profitability. The stock has lost more than half its value since its market debut on November 13, 2024.
economictimes.indiatimes.com…
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we spent a while pitching @askbro_io as an agent that can do anything. we're cutting it back to two things: shopping and getting around the city.
"anything" sounded big but i think people just didn't know what to ask it first
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faster at shipping, sure. but 3 years of knowing exactly why users churn isn't something an agent rewrites in a weekend, and that's usually the part that's hard to copy.
AI really went from “write me a poem” to “find me a $200 purchase” in record time 💀
(Meta says shopping is one of Muse’s top use cases)
Turns out the killer app for AI might just be having expensive taste and zero patience.
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Amazon is blocking AI shopping agents. Walmart is building APIs for them. Google is bringing checkout into Gemini.
Three tech giants. Three strategies. One question: who owns the shopping journey when AI does the shopping?
The next e-commerce battleground isn't the storefront. It's the agent deciding what goes in the cart 🟢