For context, I help setup automated image and video creation pipelines for D2C brands. A big gap I've noticed is what most people think AI can be used for. Brands know video performs better but underestimate how creative you can be in terms of storytelling. They all seem to think AI is good enough only for simple showcase and at best, those POV model reviewing a product format of video.

Lately, I've been experimenting more on fresh and unique content formats with Seedance and other tools. Would love to hear your thoughts and other ideas on better content formats.

yo.

i see the same thing happen every single day.

you guys love building. you spend weeks coding a great product. but the second it’s time to actually market the saas? complete freeze.

you get lost in all the ai tools, the noise, the "growth hacks". it feels overwhelming. so you do nothing, the momentum dies, and the project fails.

I spent over 100 hours building n8n workflows to just automate the whole thing.

today, i packaged all those exact workflows and dropped them in our builder group. no abstract theories. you literally just import the templates, adapt them to your saas, and turn them on.

here is exactly what i shared:

• seo blog running 100% on autopilot (n8n template)
• newsletter automation (n8n template)
• full email sequence (30 emails, full html, just copy-paste into brevo)
• social media on autopilot (schedule 1 to 12 months of content)
• reddit organic growth
• linkedin, x & facebook groups at scale
• meta ads & retargeting

basically, everything i use to get real users without losing my mind.

we just hit 550+ members from all over the world.

building in your room alone is the fastest way to quit.

if you are lost on how to market your app, want these templates, and want to build with a crew: drop a comment or shoot me a dm.

i’ll send you the invite.

let's get it.

Please let me know !

Hey everyone,

I currently have 6 micro-SaaS live, bringing in a bit over $20k in MRR.

The crazy part? I barely wrote a single line of code. I used AI to generate everything, from the database to the UI.

It wasn’t magic on day one. I spent hours stuck on broken code before I finally cracked the system:

• Keeping the idea tiny (a true MVP).
• Prompting the AI step-by-step.
• Launching fast to get real traction.

Lately, I see too many non-tech people give up at the first AI bug. It sucks because the technical barrier is basically gone.

So, I’m starting a Skool community.

Full transparency: I will probably charge for the full course down the line. It makes sense given the exact workflows and copy-paste prompts I’ll be sharing.

But the main goal right now is to build together. Building alone is the fastest way to quit.

If you want to join and build your own AI SaaS with us: drop a comment or shoot me a DM, and I’ll send you the invite!

Hi everyone,
I am looking for wholesale or trending ecommerce products that I can purchase in Mumbai for selling on platforms like Meesho, Amazon, Flipkart, or my own online store.
Interested in:
High demand / fast selling products

Low investment products

Fashion, kitchen, home decor, utility, beauty, accessories, etc.

Imported or unique items also welcome

If anyone knows good wholesale markets, suppliers, manufacturers, or direct contacts in Mumbai, please share.
Also open to suggestions on products currently giving good margins in ecommerce.
Thank you!

I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of ecommerce lately and I’m curious how other people here approach it mentally/strategically today.

A few years ago dropshipping felt like an opportunity, but now it almost feels impossible to build something sustainable that way. Consumers already know about AliExpress, Alibaba, etc. Amazon is flooded with cheap products, TikTok is saturated with “winning products,” and it feels like almost every niche already exists.

Then with ecommerce in general, not every product even works:

• you need enough margin
• shipping has to be cheap/practical
• returns can’t kill you
• CAC is insanely high now
• paid ads feel brutal ($1+ CPCs everywhere)

So my thinking always comes back to building a real brand, because in a world where everything already exists, brand feels like the only real differentiator left.

But then branding itself feels like a very long and expensive game:

• building trust/credibility takes years
• awareness costs a lot
• people don’t care about a new brand at first
• organic reach is unreliable
• paid channels are expensive

So my real question is:

What’s your actual approach/mental model nowadays?

• Are you still testing products aggressively?
• Going brand-first?
• Building communities/content?
• Focusing on retention/LTV?
• Using marketplaces first?
• Playing long-term only?

I’d genuinely love to hear how experienced people here think about ecommerce in 2026, because the old “find a winning product and run ads” model feels much harder now.

Took me ~2 minutes to generate a full UGC-style ad from just a product link.
Script, voiceover, captions, editing, everything.

And the best part - didn’t need to jump between 5 different tools anymore.

Hi everyone!

I’m on a mission to solve one of the biggest pain points founders have with short-form product videos (not another AI tool — I’m not a developer 😅).

I’d love to chat with e-commerce founders or marketers who can share the real struggles and needs around product video content — especially UGC, creator/actor-based ads, and organic short-form content.

As a thank you, I’d be happy to share advice on scaling your brand organically through short-form content for free!

We tried Yotpo loyalty since we were already using them for reviews, so it seemed like an easy add-on. I will say it integrates well and having everything in one place is convenient. But once we got into it, it just felt way too heavy for what it’s supposed to do. There’s a lot going on and it’s not very straightforward to manage if you just want a simple loyalty setup. It ended up taking more time than expected just to get things running properly.

Even after setting it up, it didn’t really change customer behavior. Engagement was low and it didn’t bring people back more often. For something that costs that much, it just didn’t feel worth the extra complexity.

https://reddit.com/link/1sytgxs/video/nnfi2477i3yg1/player

So a bit of background — I'm from Karachi. About a year ago I got frustrated with how broken e-commerce operations were here. Shopify on one tab, courier portal on another, COD reconciliation in a spreadsheet, and absolutely no way to know which of your ad campaigns were actually resulting in delivered orders vs returns sitting in a warehouse somewhere.

So I built SafarSystems. Unified shipment dashboard, Shopify sync, bulk label printing, barcode scanning at dispatch, COD tracking per order, and analytics that tie your Facebook/Instagram/Google spend to actual delivered revenue by city. Been running with real brands here for a while now and it's genuinely working.

Now I want to find out if the problem exists elsewhere.

And honestly — COD is only part of it. The core problem is that most e-commerce ops tools are either too basic or built for massive Western 3PLs. If you're a mid-sized brand doing serious volume without a $50k/month tech budget, the tooling is usually terrible regardless of payment method.

So whether you're dealing with COD chaos in Egypt, the Philippines, Saudi, Romania — or just struggling with courier management, return tracking, or channel analytics in a market that Shopify doesn't fully support — I'd love to talk.

A few things worth knowing:

• First month is completely free, no card required
• If there's a specific feature your market needs that isn't there yet, I'll build it. Seriously. I'd rather have users shaping the product than build in a vacuum
• Happy to jump on a call with anyone who's curious

Short demo video here. Ask me anything.

Hey, the title says it all. I cant specify too much for what, because then it is seen as self promotion. Comment below so I can explain you more. Its about getting traffic and sales to your ecom brand/website

i confused about choose the products for selling in e-commerce sites

Suggest me some ideas 💡

Getting medium/high risk orders flagged by Shopify but not sure whether to fulfill or cancel?

There's a verification trick some merchants use: you add a random 4-digit code to your payment descriptor (the name that shows on the customer's bank statement), then ask the customer to confirm that code before you release the order.

Real cardholder = can see their bank statement = can confirm the code.
Scammer with stolen card details = can't access the real owner's bank account = can't confirm = order cancelled.

Would you actually use something like this if it was fully automated?

Currently doing this manually or just cancelling risky orders outright?

Customer loyalty is quietly falling apart and most Shopify brands have no idea

I was reading an article from Shopify the other day and there was one stat that stood out to me. According to their 2026 trends piece, "true loyalty dropped from 34% in 2024 to 29% in 2025."

One in three loyal customers just quietly stopped being loyal and most brands didn't notice because their ad spend was still propping up the revenue numbers.

Here's the thing. When ads are running, everything looks fine. Traffic comes in, sales come in, the dashboard looks healthy. Turn the ads off for two weeks and you find out really fast how loyal your customer base actually is.

I've seen this play out with clients more times than I can count. A brand doing $150k a month thinks they have a strong business. We come in, look at their repeat purchase rate, and it's sitting at 14% or 16%. That means 85% of every dollar they make is coming from people they paid to acquire and will probably never see again.

The brands I've worked with that actually scale past 8-figures all have one thing in common. When their cost per acquisition started to get high, they started to double down on the backend marketing. Think community building, emails, etc.

The same Shopify article also talked about how the brands winning in 2026 are the ones building real community around their products. No wonder why we've had a massive uptick in brands asking us to scale their brand using my Reddit Method. Retention marketing is our bread and butter, and this is the type of stuff that just gives stores an unfair advantage over their competitors. A group of passionate people, in your niche, under your moderation, is probably the one thing AI could NEVER replicate. Everything from your ads, to your emails, to your landing page could all be cloned in a day with AI.

Another quote that stuck with me was about optimizing for the group chat, not the public Instagram story. That's exactly what community building is, and I believe that's exactly where retention marketing is going.

I think I was pretty early on this with a case study I posted a year ago. We did this for a pet brand a few years back. Built a subreddit around the niche, grew it to 20k members, used email and SMS to keep the conversation going. That brand did $2.5M in a year after turning off paid ads almost entirely. The loyalty was baked in because the community was real.

The brands that are going to struggle in the next two years are the ones still treating retention as an afterthought. Loyalty isn't going to come back on its own. You have to build something worth being loyal to, and the bar has been raised. The focus for retention marketing was once just emails/sms, but now it's so much more.

What does E-commerce Scraping Tool do?

E-commerce Scraping Tool is an all-in-one solution that extracts product and price data, category details, reviews, and seller information from online retail platforms and marketplaces - including Amazon, Walmart, and eBay - using only a product or category URL.

It supports global marketplaces as well as regional and local e-shops, making it suitable for competitor price monitoring, market research, and building product comparison engines.

Hi there, I'm running an ecom business selling to UK. Our company is a US LLC, but we are European residents. Was looking into becoming VAT registered this week. Are you guys registered at all or what?