Giftit

Gift without guessing

5.0•1 review•

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Gift without guessing

5.0•1 review•

157 followers

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Giftit is reimagining the gifting experience through an AI persona called Sherlock which anonymously surveys your friends on messaging apps like Whatsapp and iMessage and shares the transcript of the conversation with you along with shoppable gift ideas.

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Launch tags:Social Network•Artificial Intelligence•Shopping

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Giftit

Maker

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Hey friends! 👋 I'm David, the co-founder and CEO of Giftit. We're SO excited to be launching Giftit 1.0 just in time for this holiday season! Giftit is a social gifting app that lets you find out what your friends want without killing the surprise. Find out how below! TL;DR - check out https://giftit.social 🙄 The problem - it's really hard to give both fitting AND surprising gifts. We've surveyed hundreds of people including our beta testing community and stumbled across the following conundrum: - 90% of people don't share their wishes unless they're asked 🤐 - 75% of people don't know what to get and don't want to ask 🤫 This obviously leads to an information gap between gift-givers and receivers which frequently leads to crappy, impersonal, duplicate gifts or no gifts at all. In the US alone, economist Prof. Waldfogel has estimated that this racks up to a $20B loss which represents the difference in actual value of the gift and the perceived value by the receiver. ✅ Our solution - Giftit's social wishlists and the Sherlock chatbot - 📱Once you download the free Giftit app on iOS or Android, you'll be able to select any of your contacts (who don't need to be on Giftit) - 🕵️‍♂️ Sherlock will then anonymously reach out to this contact on either iMessage or WhatsApp and start chatting with them about their wishes, current interests, etc. - 🎁 From the app, you'll be able to see in real time the transcript of the conversation of Sherlock with your contact and get shoppable gift suggestions. - 💬 If Sherlock is not asking something specific you want to know about, you can inject a message into the conversation which will directly show up on the chat app of your contact (e.g. "what's your dress size?"). HOW COOL is that!? ✨ This is a gifting experience the world has never seen and we're excited for you to give it a try! 🙏 Our ask It's very early days for us, so we're trying to learn as much as possible from you! We'd appreciate if you give Giftit a try and share feedback through the app or email (info@giftit.social). We're especially curious about the value you extract from Sherlock and how your friends and family react to it 😄 Happy gifting! David

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@shivam_tiwari24 thanks Shivam! Have you requested a Sherlock investigation yet?

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3yr ago

Thinksy

💡 Bright idea

Ooh this is a great idea! My family does an anonymous gift exchange each year so I really like the "Sherlock" aspect to it! I just downloaded it, it was hard to find on the App Store when I just searched "giftit" though 😅

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@calli_fuch Same here! I'm taking part in 3 different "Secret Santas" this year, so I personally got Sherlock's help too🕵️‍♂️. Let us know how your investigations go!

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3yr ago

Thinksy

@michela_keller That's a lot of gifting! Sounds fun, and I will :)

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3yr ago

💡 Bright idea

Interesting idea connecting social and gifts. I cop out by giving people Amazon gift cards and I suspect many do the same. As you grow, I think there are interesting possibilities to gamify and grow with network effects. Wish you the best.

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@rajeshkan72 Totally! I don't wanna tell you the amount of times I've received gifts I want to dump in the trash or as impersonal as some cash in an envelope... let's hope Sherlock serves as a good growth engine and we'll be able to do a lot of interesting things, stay tuned!

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3yr ago

Can it tell the best place to buy these gifts with the competitive pricing and discounts? Love the idea and I have seen something like this before but that wasn't very friendly like this one. Congratulations!

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@noah_scott1 Hey Noah! The eventual goal is to let you buy products directly inside the app and ship them to your address or the receiver directly!

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3yr ago

Omg what an inventive idea!! Especially relevant for the upcoming holidays! Big congrats on the launch!!

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@sandradjajic Thanks so much Sandra!!

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3yr ago

Hey David @davidalonso Great stuff. Congrats on the lunch. I've been looking forward to this. A little challenge I've been facing since the first day of the launch however is that I haven't been able to sign up with my number (Nigerian). I saw the Android update and thought that would fix it but it didn't. I'd really appreciate it if you have a fix for this... my birthday is coming in 3 days (15th of December) and I've been looking forward to trying Giftit.social for it. 😉

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@ibukunoluwa_shotubo Hi IbukunOluwa! Ohh that's coming quite close indeed! Could you check for me what version you are on? We pushed an update last week that added support for (hopefully now) all countries and if I check on my Android I can find Nigeria in the country code selector. If you are on the latest version and still can't find it or get an error let me know and I will try to fix it asap!

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3yr ago

@sirian Thanks for your swift response. "Could you check for me what version you are on?" - I'm on 1.2.7 "We pushed an update last week that added support for (hopefully now) all countries and if I check on my Android I can find Nigeria in the country code selector." - Yes, Nigeria is on the country code selector. And I put my number. When I click {Create account/Sign in}, it just keep rolling and doesn't get past that.

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@ibukunoluwa_shotubo Gotcha, thanks for the reply! I'm just tried with a Nigerian test phone number and that did get through for some reason. Let's look into this together in more detail via LinkedIn messages!

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3yr ago

Awesome @sirian. I'd really appreciate that. Running to LinkedIn. Haha

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@ibukunoluwa_shotubo Hey IbukunOluwa! Hope you managed to resolve the issue! I'm also curious to hear how you were planning to use Sherlock for your own birthday?

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3yr ago

💎 Pixel perfection

Amazing work, @davidalonso - you have created something truly special! This looks like a great way to take the guesswork out of gift giving. Exciting news!

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3yr ago

Giftit

Maker

@online_converter I love that as a tagline! Take the guesswork out of gift giving :) Credits for the amazing frontend go to my cofounder @sirian 🙏

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3yr ago

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