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Putting together a small WhatsApp group for people job hunting in the UAE. Everyone shares one LinkedIn post a week and the rest of us comment on it properly (real comments, not just likes), so your profile gets seen by recruiters. Free, UAE-based only. Comment or DM me if you want in.

Running a small WhatsApp group for founders in the UAE. One LinkedIn post each per week, and the rest of us comment on it for real. It's free, and the point is early traction without chasing engagement alone. DM me if you want in.

Job hunting here leans a lot on LinkedIn visibility. We're putting together a small WhatsApp group where each member shares one post a week and the others leave real comments, so your posts get seen by more people. Free, UAE-based only. DM me and I'll send the link.

A customer picks a time in WhatsApp. The calendar request takes too long. Your agent apologises, retries, then confidently says the appointment is confirmed.

Did it create one booking, two bookings, or none?

That's the bit I'd test before letting a booking agent talk to real customers. The model producing a nice confirmation is not evidence that the booking exists.

I'd put the boring checks outside the model: require a successful calendar response before saying "booked", keep an identifier for the appointment, and make a retry check for an existing booking before creating another. If the result is uncertain, say you're checking and hand the conversation to someone who can verify it. Don't turn a timeout into a success message.

Then test changed availability, two customers choosing the same slot, "actually make it Friday" halfway through, and a calendar that stops responding after the customer has already given their details. Those are much more useful tests than asking the bot ten FAQ questions.

I'm building Instant Reply for sales conversations in WhatsApp and Instagram, including qualification, calendar slots and human handoff. This isn't a claim that a tool removes every failure case. It's the standard I'd use to judge a booking demo, including my own.

What do you do when the calendar write might have succeeded but the confirmation never came back? Retry, check, or put it in a human queue?

A customer asks "how much is it and can I book Thursday?"

The bot sends a greeting. Then a menu. Then asks what they're interested in. Then asks for details they already gave you. Somewhere in there, the person stops replying.

You paid to get that enquiry. Making them fight through your flow is a terrible way to treat it.

I'm building Instant Reply for the other version: answer from the business's approved prices and offer details, collect the missing qualification info, check Google Calendar availability, and book the next step inside the DM. If it needs a custom quote or discount approval, a human takes over with the conversation attached. It can use WhatsApp voice-note transcripts and product photos as context too.

The point isn't to make a bot sound chatty. It's to get the customer to a useful next step without making up an answer.

There's also a cost reason to cut the pointless messages. Meta's October 1 update adds delivery charges for WhatsApp API service replies, including third-party AI replies. Switching automation tools doesn't remove that charge. The eligible 72-hour free-entry-point exception remains. Meta's details: https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/pricing/non-template-messages

Before adding more automation, I'd look at one real enquiry and count the outgoing messages that actually helped. A separate "thanks", repeated questions, and a nudge after they've already replied are worth fixing before anything else.

If your team sells through Instagram or WhatsApp DMs and you want to try this, reach out. I'll set up Instant Reply for you for free. The setup offer isn't a promise of free Meta messaging or a forever-free subscription.

https://www.instantreply.co/features/ai-sales-assistant

i built a SaaS product around a problem that looked painfully obvious: businesses lose leads because they reply too slowly, forget to follow up, or let conversations disappear across different inboxes.

the product helps handle those conversations, answer using the company’s real information, follow up with silent leads, and move interested people toward a booking or sale.

in my head, the pitch was almost impossible to reject:

“this can help you recover revenue you’re already losing, and you can try it without paying upfront.”

four months after launch, we have one paying customer.

one.

the product is free to start, onboarding is relatively quick, and the value should be measurable. Yet free users are not rushing in, and the few people who show interest usually disappear before becoming active users.

my current theory is that i confused “this makes economic sense” with “people urgently want this.”

maybe the problem is real but not painful enough. Maybe businesses tolerate missed leads because changing their workflow feels riskier than losing some revenue. Maybe the target market is wrong. Or maybe this is simply a distribution failure and i have no idea how to get in front of the right people.

how would you investigate this without hiding behind more features, more landing-page edits, or random outreach?

what evidence would convince you that the problem is demand rather than distribution? tell me where im wrong.

Hey everyone,
If you run an e-commerce brand or store here in the UAE and sales have been slow, we built something that might help.
It is an app called bidz. Think of it like live-stream shopping on TikTok:
• You go live on your phone and show your products.
• Viewers bid on items in real time.
• The highest bidder buys it instantly.
We just launched and are spending heavily on marketing across the UAE to bring buyers into the app. Because it is new, early sellers will get almost all the viewer traffic with zero competition.
If you have inventory sitting around and want to test moving it on live video just download it from the AppStore / play store ( Bidz)

Would appreciate any form of feedback as well

Hey I built an AI agent that handles store messages on WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, and comments.
I’ll set it up for 10 e-commerce stores for free. It takes 10–15 minutes max.
It can answer customer questions, send product/payment links, follow up with people who stop replying, and handle WhatsApp campaigns.
I don’t want any money whatsoever. No card, no trial, no contract.
All I want in exchange is honest feedback after you use it what works, what doesn’t, and what would make it better.
If you run a store ( or social media page) and want to it, comment or DM me.

I’ll set it up for 10 e-commerce stores for free. It takes 10–15 minutes max.
It can answer customer questions, send product/payment links, follow up with people who stop replying, and handle WhatsApp campaigns.
I don’t want any money whatsoever. No card, no trial, no contract.
All I want in exchange is honest feedback after you use it what works, what doesn’t, and what would make it better.
If you run a store and want to try it, comment or DM me.