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OP is clearly a weirdo :)

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 Ro…

Go on being that better prepared YC startup then.

We'll all miss seeing you at YC Garry!

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 start…

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 (in…

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 aff…

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 si…

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 b…

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 at…

That's the app developer's responsibility.

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 getti…

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 reac…

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 …

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. A…

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 retail…

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.

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 o…

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 ear…

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.

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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