Enes Efe

I've been building Farabiulder for the past year group buying for Shopify stores. It's scheduled to launch here on August 25.

The idea: a shopper starts a group on a product and invites friends. Once enough people join, everyone in the group gets the discounted price. If the group doesn't reach its minimum before the deadline, every participant is refunded automatically through Shopify Payments or Stripe the merchant does nothing.

I work on Shopify apps, and this is something I genuinely can't resolve.

Group buying where shoppers team up so everyone unlocks a lower price is enormous in Asian ecommerce. Pinduoduo built a top-tier company on the mechanic. In the West it's essentially absent. Groupon isn't a counterexample: that was a marketplace selling daily deals, not a shopper recruiting other shoppers into a shared purchase.