Agora is an AI search engine for e-commerce products. We've indexed 4 million products sold on 8,100 Shopify and WooCommerce stores and made them easy to purchase with a single cart transaction. Think of a decentralized Amazon.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Param, founder of Agora.
I'm excited to launch Agora, an AI search engine for e-commerce products! We've indexed 4 million products sold on Shopify and WooCommerce stores and made them easy to purchase with a single cart transaction. Think of a decentralized Amazon.
We don’t hold any inventory ourselves, route payments to merchants, and give customers an order tracking link that shows the shipping status of products from the different stores. By aggregating the supply of products, we've layered in AI powered features that enhance the customer experience. This includes image search, similar products across stores, collections, pros and cons, price alerts, and a chat-based shopping assistant named Athena.
Agora is completely free to use. You can search, purchase, and track orders as a guest.
You can sign up for an account to unlock more functionality.
🔸 Lists: Create lists of your favorite products and share them. For example, here are some gift lists.
🔸 Chat history: Save a chat history of your conversations with Athena.
🔸 Faster checkout: Add payment methods and shipping addresses to save you time at checkout.
We offer a $99 per year Agora Membership for features that help customers save time and money.
🔹 Free shipping: We waive the $4.99 per product shipping fee.
🔹 Price alerts: If the price drops of any of your saved products, we'll email you.
🔹 Automated discounts: We scan the internet for coupons that are applied automatically at checkout.
We provide 24 / 7 support to all customers at [email protected]. This includes helping with an order, issuing refunds, exchanging products, and more.
Unlike Amazon, we don't take a commission of sales from merchants. Store owners on Shopify and WooCommerce can continue selling on their own website and we give them network effects which drives more revenue. The inventory upload process is automatic with our crawlers and there's no change to their existing point of sale system. Our crawler, aptly named Hermes, runs 24 / 7 to keep product and inventory data updated on Agora.
I originally launched Agora as a side project on HackerNews to find a pair of red shoes for my wife last Christmas. The product looked like it was designed in MS Paint (by yours truly) and took 5 - 10 seconds to load results. Although I was sufficiently embarrassed, it was just enough to show the potential. Since launching the MVP, we've improved our search algorithm, rebuilt the app to be faster, processed hundreds of orders, signed up paying merchants, and raised a pre-seed round from investors like Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.
⭐ We're launching today on ProductHunt in honor of Black Friday. As a thank you for checking out our product and providing us feedback, we're giving the community $10 off the Agora Membership.
It may sound unreasonable right now but my vision is to build "The World's Store", one unified layer on top of all products sold on the internet. I believe that search is only the entry point. Agora can revolutionize the entire e-commerce journey with AI: product discovery, purchasing, order fulfillment, support, same day deliveries, packaging, and more. With more servers, we'll soon be indexing products from Squarespace, Wix, Etsy, Amazon, Temu and more.
I'd love your feedback! You can also reach me at [email protected].
