Completely understand that. We currently tie each store to a user account. But maybe we can let you start the process to see how the builder works without having to register?
1. Here are the use-cases we've seen so far: marketplaces, search apps, fashion try-on apps, shopping agents, general purpose agents, web search for LLMs, e-commerce aggregators, hedge funds, etc. The most surprising has been new discovery experiences. Here's an example of an app that uses our data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2025/06/04/glance-a...
2. Great catch. We need to make this more clear on the site but we provide ~100k stores out of the box but keep the bigger brands behind an Enterprise paywall. We're working on fixing this.
3. Absolutely. We have purposely separated out search on the home page between our core index vs searching on Amazon, Walmart, etc. from within Agora. We haven't indexed products from the major marketplaces yet because of this challenge. Generally, we also focus on direct sellers and have filters in place with our crawler to parse out resellers.
4. Haven't looked at this but sounds interesting. And similar to how we think about storing e-commerce data with price history over time.
I'd love to chat more. I'm at param [at] searchagora.com if you want to reach out.
But not exactly. I was thinking more like facilities enhancement and having insurance in a lot better balance and strength than I had :\
Although after the flood(s) the survival rations at work do ring a bell now.
I still had a laboratory refrigerator for chemicals, but when I was on my own I didn't get another one for office food supplies for quite a while. I would still pick up plenty of snacks every week but mostly non-refrigerated except for a few things that would fit on ice in a cooler, and I wasn't going back for more ice again the same week.
Things like a gallon of milk were only a fraction more money than a half-gallon, but they would outlast the ice and still be good toward the end of the week once the ice had all melted, when it was still somewhat cool water in the ice chest. But not for very long after that. So on a regular basis I would consume more toward the end of the week than I would the first few days. Stepping up to the plate to get the cooler ready to dry out for Monday. Just reaching the "end-of-the-line" more frequently than the doomsday approach in the Office video :)
I'm a first generation Indian raised in the US. There's a big push from parents in my culture for stability over happiness (cue Indian doctor joke). Sounds like you went through something similar.
