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Show HN: TickClip – An AI shopping agent that can recommend not buying

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Post by tickclip » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

My name is Tarik Aarbaoui, I am an affiliate and influencer marketing specialist. For the last 14 years I’ve worked to grow revenue while trying to meet shoppers’ expectations.

But during my time there, I observed a core conflict: shoppers often look to influencers and affiliate content to help them decide what to buy, but the people making those recommendations are usually only compensated when a purchase happens. Usually this means that the incentive is to encourage the sale, even when waiting or not buying might be better for the shopper.

That insight is what inspired me to build TickClip. It uses a simple three-outcome decision model for online shopping: Tick to buy, Clip to wait or reconsider, Skip to avoid.

The point is to build a fiduciary decision layer that views purchases from the buyer’s viewpoint, not optimizing for conversion.

I'd love feedback on the decision model, how clear the verdicts are, and what evidence you'd need to see to trust a system like this.

Show HN: TickClip – An AI shopping agent that can recommend not buying
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Post by karambahh » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

Your website claims not to carry affiliate tags but /verdict/ definitely does so your FAQ claims seem false.

Some prices are shown as "0$" which is obviously a bug.

Seems to me that your decision model is basically "look at camelcamelcamel's slope for the item", which is a decent idea (I do this myself).

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Post by tickclip » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 8:51 PM UTC

karambahh wrote: post #2

Your website claims not to carry affiliate tags but /verdict/ definitely does so your FAQ claims seem false. Some prices are shown as "0$" which is obviously a bug. Seems to me that your decision model is basically "look at camelcamelcamel's slope for the item", which is a decent idea (I do this myself).

The model and concept is so strong and we are at the launch stage and surely will fix these bugs and inconsistencies but we assure our users that we aren’t taking any commissions and our model uses different logics and resources and programs and scripts and not camelcamelcamel ! Nice catch though

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Post by tickclip » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC

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Post by arundhati2000 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:32 PM UTC

This is cool. Do you have a version that's a browser extension, so as I browse any product on any site, it does the same? Also in cases where it's not a Tick, maybe find similar products that may fit the bill more?

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Post by tickclip » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

arundhati2000 wrote: post #5

This is cool. Do you have a version that's a browser extension, so as I browse any product on any site, it does the same? Also in cases where it's not a Tick, maybe find similar products that may fit the bill more?

Thanks! A browser extension is definitely on our roadmap — the goal is for TickClip to work while you’re browsing products, rather than requiring you to come to us first. And great catch on the alternatives. We already let users ask the system for more product suggestions, but we want to make this much more automatic: if something gets a Clip or Skip, TickClip should proactively surface better-fitting alternatives and explain why they may be better choices.