I truly appreciate all the honest feedback and tough love Let me share a bit more about why and how we're building Giftit: The problem - it's hard to give bot

I truly appreciate all the honest feedback and tough love Let me share a bit more about why and how we're building Giftit: The problem - it's hard to give both fitting AND surprising gifts. We've surveyed hundreds of people including our beta testing community and stumbled across the following conundrum: - 90% of people don't share their wishes unless they're asked - 75% of people don't know what to get and don't want to ask This obviously leads to an information gap between gift-givers and receivers which frequently leads to crappy, impersonal, duplicate gifts or no gifts at all. In the US alone, economist Prof. Waldfogel has estimated that this racks up to a $20B loss which represents the difference in actual value of the gift and the perceived value by the receiver. Our solution - Giftit's social wishlists and the Sherlock chatbot - Once you download the free Giftit app on iOS or Android, you'll be able to select any of your contacts (who don't need to be on Giftit) - Sherlock will then anonymously reach out to this contact on either iMessage or WhatsApp and start chatting with them about their wishes, current interests, etc. - From the app, you'll be able to see in real time the transcript of the conversation of Sherlock with your contact and get shoppable gift suggestions. - If Sherlock is not asking something specific you want to know about, you can inject a message into the conversation which will directly show up on the chat app of your contact (e.g. "what's your dress size?") --- I'll be the first to admit that this is definitely not for everyone. I would personally not use this for gifting someone I spend a lot of time around since I typically know what they're into. However, there's a long tail of people in my life like old friends, family, etc that I live far away from and that I'm a bit more clueless on. If you're someone that doesn't mind asking directly for people's wishes or sharing them without being asked, then this is probably also not for you. I encourage you all to give it a try and share more feedback