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Yash retweeted
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 🟢
Yash retweeted
almost 1 in 3 people who messaged @askbro_io on sunday led with money. "snacks under 70". "trimmer under 1500". "office trousers, ₹500 tak". "find coupons".
shopping AI demos start with "find me the best X". real users start with what they can spend
Yash retweeted
exactly. stores that block agents aren't stopping agent shopping. they're just losing the order to whoever lets the agent through.
multi-store is the default at @askbro_io.
Yash retweeted
seeing this up close at @askbro_io. intent isn't typed, it's browsed. indians browse by category ~3x more than they search.
so an "intent" agent for india can't be a chat box. it has to feel like a shop that already knows you.
@vaibhav9339 spoke to @ET_Marketing about how personal AI agents are reshaping India’s consumer internet. He believes the last decade was a race to win attention, and the next one will be a race to deliver on user intent.
In a world where people increasingly let AI assistants handle tasks, the advantage will shift to businesses that are genuinely better on price, selection, and reliability.
He also sees India’s D2C sector as a particularly interesting space for this agentic AI era to play out. The value of an AI assistant will essentially hinge on real-world actions they can fulfill, whether the order arrives on time, the service professional shows up, the return gets picked up, and so on.
Read Vaibhav’s take on personal AI agents for India: elevationcapital.substack.co…
Yash retweeted
Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.
Yash retweeted
Total user base is a vanity metric, so I'm gonna start posting active usage metrics from here on. Here are some graphs for
- DAUs
- Daily recommendations made
- Daily messages exchanged
11 weeks in. We crossed 5K!
All I can think of is the next major update. We're finally going to close the loop for our users. You'll be able to actually order things using the app instead of getting redirected.
The accuracy of our recommendations and prices shown is also getting better every week, if not every day.
We will definately crack retention and scale up real soon!
Yash retweeted
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 🟢
Yash retweeted
11 weeks in. We crossed 5K!
All I can think of is the next major update. We're finally going to close the loop for our users. You'll be able to actually order things using the app instead of getting redirected.
The accuracy of our recommendations and prices shown is also getting better every week, if not every day.
We will definately crack retention and scale up real soon!
