Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Param, founder of Agora.
I’m excited to launch the Agora Store Builder, an alternative to Shopify. We help you launch a store with built-in features like domain setup, payments, order tracking, analytics, apps, templates, and more. No coding or effort needed.
After talking to hundreds of merchants, I heard the same thing over and over again: e-commerce stores are expensive to build, tough to manage, and require a lot of customization to be successful. Shopify is a good starting point but requires a lot of work to get your first sales. There’s even a whole industry of expensive service providers that help merchants navigate the Shopify ecosystem.
We built the Agora Store Builder to solve this problem and give merchants a single platform to easily build and distribute their store. Users can build, manage, and deploy a custom e-commerce store via AI chat.
Here are some key specs:
The vibe coding interface is powered by V0. We manage previews and deployments with Vercel with a lot of middleware to manage integrations, state, products, checkout, and orders. We provide a Products and Orders database built in. No external data source required to set up. The Products database has a similar structure as Shopify with parent products, variants, and stock management.
Using the same crawlers we’ve built for our search engine, we’ve enabled a “Import Shopify store” and “Import WooCommerce store” option from the home page. You can enter any existing e-commerce store and we’ll automatically import the product data to save you time switching over to Agora.
We’ve built a native integration with Stripe to manage in-store payments and merchant payouts. We also have a Zapier app to enable merchants to connect incoming orders to the tools they already use like ShipStation, DHL, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and more.
There’s a few things on our immediate roadmap: improve the initial loading speed, introduce more design variety, and add full stack apps that are easy to install (e.g. adding customer reviews to a store).
I’d love your feedback!