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Buy and sell everywhere with smart #hashtags.

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Buy and sell everywhere with smart #hashtags.

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Generate smart #hashtags for your products that anyone can text to buy in seconds. No websites, no apps, no checkouts. www.boo.st

Launch tags:Web App•Marketing•E-Commerce

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Congrats on the launch! Great product and awesome site! I do have a few questions: are you concerned at all with the existing patent on this? who handles dispute resolution? does this / will this violate IG's Terms of Service?

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10yr ago

Legit

Congrats on the launch. Sounds very familiar. We enabled this in 2011. P2p and social commerce via hashtag across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. We have a patent on the application. Here's some early coverage. https://techcrunch.com/tag/chirpify We pivoted away from commerce in 2013 because brands were, and remain, not set up internally for social commerce. ie: there is almost no buyer and no market for this type of solution. The commerce and social teams are not connected, and it's a monumental slog to get them to be. Not trying to rain on your launch parade at all. Actually trying to give you honest feedback. Let me know if you'd like to hear more about the lack of market or advice on navigating the social commerce waters.

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10yr ago

This is big! It looks so simple from the outside but I imagine lot of stuff going on in the background. Most user-centered approach to e-commerce so far. Congrats!

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10yr ago

Boost

Maker

@koszkisz Thanks Tamás.

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10yr ago

It follow the trend of IG brand usage growth and its presentation and idea seems really great. I'm looking forward to know more about the program for IG influencer (for the moment you can just send an email).

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10yr ago

Sell Button

Maker

@nick88msn Hi Nicola, great question. Yes, that's definitely on our roadmap. Sellers will have the ability to generate variations of existing product #hashtags to be used by other influencers / ambassadors / sellers - enabling a new way to distribute your products and measure + compensate via conversion rather than impressions.

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10yr ago

@dannyabas A sort of Affiliation Hashtag :) It would be great to increase the growth

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10yr ago

Quick Code

Amazing idea. Very simplified way of buy/sell things. Hope more people will use Twitter because of Boost in upcoming days.

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10yr ago

Sell Button

Maker

@keyul Thanks so much! Yes, our goal is to add value across the board.

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10yr ago

It's like Pied Piper. I understand what it does but how? :)

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10yr ago

Boost

Maker

@vfdraganescu Hi Vali, I hope we don't have the same problematic branding as PP! On the buyer side, they sign up once and can connect social accounts to create a passport that allows them to transact on any networks they choose with the brands they follow. On the seller side, we can manage inventory or integrate with existing e-commerce platforms. Then when they post to social we have network approved applications that let us matchmake and execute the transactions. Thats the simple answer describing a complex solution.

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10yr ago

@jmacias Hi Jaime, Do you need buyer's credit card when they sign up?

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10yr ago

Boost

Maker

@burak_ozkan yes. Buyers provide credit card and shipping at sign up. They can then Oauth whichever networks they want to use it with or use the system solely over SMS.

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10yr ago

@jmacias Good, why don't you choose mobile application instead of sms? Customer can make order via mobile app.

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10yr ago