Gobillion

Making ecommerce social for the next 400M customers in India

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Making ecommerce social for the next 400M customers in India

7 followers

Gobillion is the Pinduoduo for India – we make e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in Tier 2+ cities in India, enabling customers to buy together in groups and get great deals!

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Gobillion

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Dear Product Hunt community! Gobillion is the Pinduoduo for India, we make e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in small towns in India and enable them to buy together in groups for great deals! For most Indian customers in small towns, shopping has always been a social experience with friends and family - customers in Tier 2+ cities in India prefer great deals augmented by a social shopping experience. OUR STORY: We, Roshan(CEO) and Kulapradip (CTO) of Gobillion have been close friends from the past 15+ years. We pursued undergrad in Computer Science & Engineering together and grew up in small towns in India. It all started last year in 2020, when I called up Kulapradip to ask for his recommendation on the best health supplements to use. While I was browsing multiple online platforms, Kulapradip’s personal shopping recommendation mattered to me. I actually ended up buying the product what Kulapradip recommended to me and got a good deal as well! This experience however stuck with us - we realized that this need for social recommendation + great deals is intrinsic to millions of Indian customers. CUSTOMER PROBLEM: • The next wave of 400M online customers from Tier 2+ cities in India who are coming online for the first time, have a very different set of aspirations and needs while shopping online (which the incumbent model of e-commerce does not serve effectively) • Shopping is a social activity for customers in small towns in India but the social recommendation based e-commerce model in India hasn't been tapped properly yet • Customers want (i) great deals/discounts and a (ii) social experience/recommendation from close friends/family around their online purchases • A large chunk of retail sector in India is unorganized and consumers rely heavily on social recommendations to initiate transactions OUR SOLUTION • Customers can unlock deals on their groceries and daily essentials (and save upto ~25% or more) and drive lower pricing by buying together in social groups (“TeamBuy”) • Team purchase helps solve the “trust deficit” of online retail in small towns in India as customers buy within trusted social circles • Create a family and friends oriented fun shopping experience, incentivize shared buying through deals and discounts JOURNEY SO FAR • We are focused in East India initially with a large captive target customer base which is traditionally underserved, we have launched our app in Guwahati, India (a fast growing city of 2M population in East India) as the first launch city, and the initial category being grocery and daily essentials • Our growth has been pretty phenomenal over the last few months! We are super excited to build the #1 social buying platform for customers in Tier 2+ cities in India!

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4yr ago

Gobillion

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Dear folks! We are changing the way people in small towns in India shops online by giving them a fun and discovery based Shopping experience rather than a search based platform. We enable our users to fulfil their intrinsic need of social purchase with the recommendation from their peers! Thanks, Kulapradip

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4yr ago

Product Hunt

?makers love the TeamBuy feature and the concept of 'social trust' behind it. Definitely serves the need for first time buyers! Wanted to know if the app is also available in local languages?

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4yr ago

Gobillion

Maker

@adityavsc Thanks for your feedback and to know that you resonate with what we are building at Gobillion! Also, exited to inform you that we are brining local languages to our App soon :)

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4yr ago

Gobillion

Maker

@adityavsc Thanks Aditya for your great feedback!

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4yr ago

Zen

Congrats on the launch!

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4yr ago

Great Idea!

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4yr ago

Welldone- does Gobillion facilitate the actual moving of goods or is it more asset light? Secondly- Pinduoduo leveraged wechat for social, how does the social sharing take place on Gobillion

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4yr ago

Gobillion

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@ory_smadja Thanks for the questions 1. Gobillion facilitates the actual moving of goods. 2. We use WhatsApp for social interactions alongside our own built-in interaction capabilities in the app. WhatsApp is predominantly used in India across our TG. Also, would love to have a chat around the same Best, Kulapradip Co-Founder - Gobillion

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4yr ago