Agora

Maker

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Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Param, founder of Agora. 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. We launched the search engine on Product Hunt a few weeks ago and received incredible feedback and support from the community. Today I’m excited to launch Agora Merchants, a web dashboard that helps Shopify and WooCommerce merchants sell more on our search engine! Agora Merchants connects to your existing e-commerce store without any painful setup required and helps you track your store's performance on Agora. Why use Agora Merchants? 🔸 Unlike other marketplaces, we don't take a commission of sales. 🔸 Orders are routed to your store's existing point of sale system. 🔸 Inventory is automatically uploaded and refreshed with our crawlers. When an order is placed on Agora, our AI-powered backend purchases the product on your store with the email orders@searchagora.com. This helps us manage the order tracking on behalf of the customer. Agora Merchants is completely free to use. You can sign up to the free Basic tier to automatically upload your products and track analytics including impressions, opens, clicks, reviews, abandoned carts, and sales. By upgrading to a paid plan, you get functionality designed to increase your sales and save you time. 🔹 Store customization: Upload a logo, banner, and tags to help customers find you. 🔹 Verified products: Get more traffic with products that rank higher in results. 🔹 Integrations: Add Agora customer data to your CRM or automate email follow up. I originally launched Agora as a side project on HackerNews to find a pair of red shoes for my wife last Christmas. I quickly realized that some of the best products on the internet are sold by small online stores that struggle to get the same visibility as large retailers. I started Agora on a mission to democratize online commerce. If you sell the best pair of red shoes in the world, customers should be able to find it. So how is this different than Amazon? Both Amazon and Agora give network effects to stores (i.e. if you're searching for red shoes from one store, you may also want to buy a red dress sold by a different store). The key difference with Agora is that you continue selling on your existing e-commerce store, without having to manage inventory and payouts on another platform. This creates a magical experience for our merchants that saves them hundreds of hours. We believe in a future where merchants can sell however they want, we just bring them more customers. And we're already working with some incredible e-commerce brands including Ekouaer, Do Only Good Pets, Calzuro, Skelton Optics, V-Dog, and more. ⭐ As a small thank you to the Product Hunt community, we're offering $50 off the first month of the $99 Starter tier which unlocks 3 verified products, 250 product opens, and store customization. You can subscribe here. I'd love your feedback! You can also reach me at param@searchagora.com.

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6mo ago

Tony Tong

Muku.ai

@param_jaggi3 Congrats on Agora Merchants! 🎉 How does Agora’s AI ensure that scaling the platform enhances discoverability for small merchants without reinforcing the dominance of already popular products?

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6mo ago

Param Jaggi

Agora

Maker

@tonyabracadabra Great question! It's a balance of randomization, customer engagement, and manual curation. For example, we randomize search results of products with the same relevance score. The Most Popular Products on the home page are ordered based on an algorithm of user engagement and conversions. And we manually configure the Featured Collections on the home page to be relevant to events and trends. We recently introduced the concept of "Tags" that allow customers to shop based on values they care about (example here). This is an example of a feature that helps the discoverability of new and small stores. All of that said, we need to do a better job of variance in search results. This will help smaller stores always get visibility.

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6mo ago

Sam @CRANQ

I bet e-commerce brands love you, nothing quite like selling more & bumping up that MRR - UI looks extremely clean & usable, I'm not a vendor personally although I easily see the appeal for this! Best of luck with the launch Param & team!!

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6mo ago

Param Jaggi

Agora

Maker

@cranqnow Thank you! Appreciate the kind words. We have received a great response from e-commerce brands and are continuing to build more features based on their feedback. I think the key is that we bring them customers, regardless of signing up or subscribing.

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6mo ago

Terrence Kelleman

would love to use this but will have to contact support as our shop URL (mightywallet.shop) is not the same as our email. Question: Does this improves SEO as well?

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6mo ago

Param Jaggi

Agora

Maker

@terrence_kelleman Love your store! Going to buy a wallet for my brother for Christmas. I'll be your first order on Agora :) We're going to reach out right now via email to get you onboarded. We can set up a custom account for you. We use the email address and URL matching to confirm that merchants own the site they are signing up with. There are exceptions though that we handle manually. On SEO, we do submit Agora products to be indexed on Google (i.e. about 150k products indexed so far). So what happens is that your products on your Shopify store and on Agora show up on Google. Whether the customer checks out on your store or on Agora, you make the same amount of money.

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6mo ago

Alessandro Colombo

Agora API

Maker

@terrence_kelleman Hi Terrence, thank you for checking us out! Joining Agora can indeed boost your SEO strategy. Every product and store page you create on Agora includes follow backlinks to your website, which helps improve your domain authority and search engine ranking. Additionally, by having another reputable website show for your branded/product searches, you’re enhancing your brand’s online ownership, while protecting your profit margin (compared to marketplaces). Let us know if you have any other questions—we’re here to help.

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