Sell to your Instagram followers using comments

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15 points·khamoud··5 comments

>>To post an item for sale all you have to do is add #forsale $<dollar_amount> in the description and your item will go for sale imediately.

>>All your followers have to do is comment #buy on any item you have for sale and the item will be purchased for them.

Interesting implementation, great concept. It seems like a decent amount of consumer education would have to be done to get them on board with #buy. This idea is also subject to all the risk that goes along with complete platform dependence.

ie: if it gets big/popular enough, what's to stop Instagram/Facebook from killing it and implementing their own proprietary version?

That is a good question and concern and one that investors as well as other founders have asked.

At this point in time the reward of me making it is a lot higher than the risk of them putting resources towards doing themselves. Also, it would be a complete shift in what they are doing to try to go after this. At least for now.

I could be completely wrong and get shut down later today but I don't think that will happen (knock on wood).

Really interesting concept. Seems very dependent on instagrams leniency to let it continue existing.

Well the upside in best case scenario is huge and the downside in worst case scenario is that I got way better at node.

For me it's worth the risk.

to let hashtags continue existing?

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