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].
Congrats on the launch of Agora! A decentralized Amazon powered by AI sounds revolutionary. I’m curious to see how seamless the single-cart experience is across so many stores!
Agora is a great solution for easy AI shopping! If you're looking for a platform to find products quickly and easily, Agora is the way to go. Millions of products from thousands of Shopify and WooCommerce stores are aggregated here, and the AI search makes the process incredibly easy.
Congrats on the launch, @param_jaggi3 & @alessandro_colombo.
How does Hermes handle real-time inventory updates across so many stores?
Really cool idea. Want to see how well this monetizes. At some point you can probably charge brands for top placement on your site
Big shout out to the team; the product looks amazing. This is truly the future of merchandising. You can count on me and the Meilisearch team to help you grow to a billion products!
Wow, congrats on launching Agora! This sounds like a game-changer for e-commerce. How does the AI work to find the products?
Hi ProductHunt! I'm Ale, Head of Growth at Agora.
The number one question we get at Agora is "How do you get distribution?". Other than customer word of mouth, we have over 150,000 product pages indexed by Google which drives high intent organic traffic to Agora. For example, if someone searches for "Taylor Swift Official Store" on Google, they'll see links to the original Shopify store and the listing on Agora. Whether a customer checks out on the original store or on Agora, the merchant makes the same amount of money. Over time, we plan to index millions of our products on other search engines to drive steady state traffic to our site.
We're also really excited to be supporting online merchants, while giving customers access to millions of unique products from stores with a purpose. We recently introduced a feature that lets merchants add "Tags" to their store like "Women owned" or "Carbon neutral". This is just an example of the tools we are providing to customers to improve store discovery and shopping experience. As more customers discover these stores, Agora becomes their entry point into the fragmented world of e-commerce.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback about how we think about Growth at Agora!
I love the idea, congratulations on the launch!
One question: Are you focusing only on the US for now? I ask because I found a product I’m interested in, but unfortunately, it’s only available for delivery within the US (I am based in Europe).
Regardless, this is such a cool idea. Congrats again on the launch, and wishing you lots of success!
This is super exciting! Agora feels like it could completely change the way we shop online. It’s like the Amazon of the future, but decentralized. I can’t wait to see how this works in action!
