damn Instagram killing a lot of businesses with this one :), great feature and much much needed
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Been a long time coming, tons of other people are trying to do the Instagram to purchase route; having it integrated is awesome. Hope I can play with this soon!
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@afashionnerd Wow just noticed you're FashionTap. Very cool!
Big move for Instagram and huge win for those who like to shop off influencers pages (liked2knowit users). Hopefully I'm not being inappropriate but Checkit (Snapchat for shopping)is now in TestFlight and it seems like some people in this thread would be great to have as testers. Please DM me @emelloul if you are interested.
Definitely a no brainer for IG. As we've been building our social gifting app, Whilo, which incorporates blogger and tastemaker lists, we've been watching to see when they would make this move. We're excited to explore this new feature for our users benefit as well.
@lindseymmiles since this really never took off, maybe there is an op for us to cooperate. SiBi just launched V2 with our new Shop Instagram feature (also here as of yesterday - posts/sibi). Take a look and get back to me if you want to chat.
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@mikeyk I'm just a humble user, but I would really like hitting the "Shop now" button and directly pay, no more pages.
Really interesting, I remember a number of startups attempting a similar in-image contextual commerce / tagging, but I guess it takes the community behind Instagram as the prerequisite.
It seems this is the natural progression for Instagram since it already has a huge influence on commerce; I personally know folks who have made purchase decisions based on what they stumbled upon on Instagram.
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