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by razvanr 2mo ago
https://pilotprotocol.network/
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by razvanr 6y ago
OP is clearly a weirdo :)
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by razvanr 7y ago
Many people ask me how I knew about YC back in early 2007. It was Founders at Work for me. It took me a few years to get my hands on a copy of the book (Amazon didn't deliver in Romania back then), but the content was incredibly useful
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by razvanr 10y ago
Go on being that better prepared YC startup then.
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How to ensure 100% reliability when scraping in ecommerce(blog.twotap.com)
17 points by razvanr 11y ago|0 comments
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by razvanr 11y ago
We'll all miss seeing you at YC Garry!
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by razvanr 11y ago
Also founder of Two Tap here. Just to clarify on the above: 1. Pricing and inventory are realtime with Two Tap -- taken live from the merchant site when a shopping session is started. If only a size S is available on the merchant site then
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by razvanr 11y ago
Pretty much what we're building at Two Tap, a gateway API that can be used to order any product from a supported retailer's inventory and benefitting from realtime product data (inventory, price etc). A huge benefit to being an in
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by razvanr 12y ago
You're right on a lot of accounts. Let's talk, can you get in touch at hello@ please? Happy to talk about all of this. The main difference now is that both retailers as well as affiliate networks are actively trying to push this m
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by razvanr 12y ago
Oldnavy and a few other retailers are not active yet. We've pre-built these integrations despite not having requests to sell their inventory just yet. I'd mention more on the BD side but can't at this point for competitive re
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by razvanr 12y ago
Good question. That's because this method doesn't scale and fails as a solution to the industry's challenges. There's companies that are trying to get retailers to implement APIs but this leads to a fragmented ecosystem.
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by razvanr 12y ago
This is strongly correlated with brand values they push in certain marketing campaigns and both returns as well as excellent service are promoted. Flipping it you could say they attract people that do returns more than avg.
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by razvanr 12y ago
That's the app developer's responsibility.
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by razvanr 12y ago
Not really, we're not building a product catalog. We're fetching the live data only for the products requested via an URL. Two Tap mimics a consumer visiting the retailer and getting that info for themselves which also allows reta
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by razvanr 12y ago
Yes, you could say that. We're laying down pipes in ecommerce so you can send an order to a merchant from anywhere on the web in a standardised API. Retailers can extend their reach and make their inventory shoppable from anywhere with
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by razvanr 12y ago
At least one of them might have been using our technology in the backend, especially if they're one of the top 5 shopping search engines. The downside to feeds is that they become obsolete very quickly, especially if the product is pop
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by razvanr 12y ago
Yes. It used to be more controversial 2 years ago. They're only reticent to not getting the consumer data, breaking the relationship with shoppers or not processing the payments. And control over who sells their inventory obviously --
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by razvanr 12y ago
Correct. We don't get any input from the retailers. Two Tap can get product availability info and place an order just by having the product URL, nothing else. Also, the full retailer inventory is available, unlike FB or other models th
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by razvanr 12y ago
Nice :) We currently focus on the US market with both retailer as well as publisher integrations, we should make that clearer perhaps. Stay tuned though, we'll have news on this.
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by razvanr 12y ago
Completely agree! Returns and not breaking the retailer's CRM is key in the space. Retailers are happy especially because we're not breaking their relationship with consumers nor obscuring payment/shipping data. It's ve
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Two Tap(YC W14) Raises $2.7M Round For Its Shopping Cart For The Entire Internet(techcrunch.com)
8 points by razvanr 12y ago|1 comments
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by razvanr 12y ago
I suspect there's also an inverse correlation between the amount of money raised at an early stage and founder focus going forward. It's easy to interpret a large seed round as early success and become side-tracked or overestimate
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by razvanr 12y ago
This is great news! Two Tap (YC W14) offers a buy button for any app and we're regularly seeing multipliers on conversion rate on mobile when streamlining the checkout.
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by razvanr 12y ago
Looks promising, congrats. Do you only support Amazon at this point? You might want to look into Two Tap, we'd be happy to get in touch. twotap.com
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by razvanr 12y ago
This is remarkable: "researchers have found that in darkness most people eventually adjust to a 48-hour cycle: 36 hours of activity followed by 12 hours of sleep. The reasons are still unclear."
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by razvanr 12y ago
The 10x is harder to define compared to the typical scenario before Two Tap. The real achievement here is the conversion rate considering mobile + commerce + general traffic. Feel free to test out the checkout at https://core.two
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by razvanr 12y ago
This model wasn't possible before so it's difficult to compare apples to apples but the increase in performance (products sold through this channel) is around 10x. We believe 1.x conversion in this scenario is incredibly good cons
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by razvanr 12y ago
It works for any product from any retailer we currently support and it doesn't impact Apple's payment system, it's an ecommerce transaction outside of it.
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by razvanr 12y ago
Whoops, deleted the post by mistake, not sure it can still be upvoted. Happy to answer any questions publicly or privately.
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Achieving 1.26% mcommerce conversion rate on a mobile ad network(blog.twotap.com)
23 points by razvanr 12y ago|9 comments

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