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@jonathan_wald · Founder, Cartcam

Thanks for hunting us Kat! Hey PH, We're a YCombinator company in the current batch and spent the past couple months building Cartcam. We're super excited to share Cartcam with the world. Cartcam is an app for opinionated, deal-seeking shoppers. As Kat mentioned, Cartcam lets you buy products at a discount (often 30%-100% off), in exchange for creating short video reviews. Video reviews on Cartcam are casual and can be as short as 30 seconds, which means that Cartcam gives you free and discounted products for doing something as easy as sending a Snap. Here's how it works: when you buy something on Cartcam, you can decide whether or not to accept a "review discount". If you accept the review discount, you're only charged the discounted price, and you have 3 weeks from the time you receive the product to post your review. You might be wondering what the catch is. Is there something wrong with the products? Why are sellers willing to give 30%-100% off their products in exchange for a video review? There is no catch. It turns out that viewers are anywhere from 64%-85% more likely to buy a product after watching a video, but generating video content isn't easy or cheap for sellers. Cartcam works because it gives sellers an easy way to motivate the creation of video content around their products. These videos don't just drive sales through Cartcam, they can also be embedded in sellers' websites, posted on social media, used for marketing, etc. This makes selling on Cartcam a no brainer! Anyway, we'd love for you to try Cartcam out and let us know what you think.

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Pame Valdés

@pamevls · CEO, Beek

@jonathan_wald Genius idea. I love reviews in general, but this is a really smart one :)