I hope buyers understand that ChatGPT isn’t recommending the best products or the best sellers, they are in a paid partnership with Shopify and will show products from their stores above others. Some of the best e-commerce brands I know have a custom platform or use WooCommerce.
That’s why I’m building an open-source agent commerce chat where you can connect to any seller. It supports Openfront, our Shopify alternative, but it’s built in a way where any platform can be added as an adapter.
I truly believe AI will replace these marketplaces and even Google Shopping and we need that way to be open, decentralized, and interoperable.
We all want to search in a trusted way. Mistrust gets in the way of sales.
But nobody wants that. They want you to buy their product, not the best product. I rarely see a store where you can filter some characteristic OUT of search results.
I just started building this a month ago so it's... sparse. But something that I'm trying to create is an indexer and aggregator for "third party" sites like Shopify, Squarespace, etc. Ingestion is instant as I just point my application at a domain and it slurps it up.
I curate based on "small scale production" - think hand made goods but the curation has a bit more wiggle room than that.
Most of the work isn't even technical. I get a lot of sellers from craft fair markets in my area. It's called Plukio. It's bare bones but maybe it'll be something someday.
My TODO list today is actually to contact an illustrator for it to do graphics and logo design.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 28.3 ms ] threadThat’s why I’m building an open-source agent commerce chat where you can connect to any seller. It supports Openfront, our Shopify alternative, but it’s built in a way where any platform can be added as an adapter.
I truly believe AI will replace these marketplaces and even Google Shopping and we need that way to be open, decentralized, and interoperable.
But nobody wants that. They want you to buy their product, not the best product. I rarely see a store where you can filter some characteristic OUT of search results.
I curate based on "small scale production" - think hand made goods but the curation has a bit more wiggle room than that.
Most of the work isn't even technical. I get a lot of sellers from craft fair markets in my area. It's called Plukio. It's bare bones but maybe it'll be something someday.
My TODO list today is actually to contact an illustrator for it to do graphics and logo design.
What I cannot forgive is the Slopify code base and Ruby core sloppification dictated by Lütke.