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u/akhilharidas009 — 2 days ago
r/AI_In_ECommerce
Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on Countries That Tax American Tech Companies. Will It Actually Work This Time?
Just as US-EU trade tensions seemed to be cooling, a new flashpoint has arrived.
Trump has threatened a 100% tariff on any country imposing a digital services tax on American companies, and made clear it would supersede any existing trade agreements. This comes less than two weeks after the EU approved a deal designed to cut tariffs on US goods.
The tactic has worked before. Canada repealed its 3% digital services tax after a similar ultimatum to keep trade negotiations alive.
But the EU is a different beast. France already has a DST in place and has previously said it won't bow to US pressure. Germany and Belgium are planning their own versions. The core disagreement, whether large American tech companies pay enough tax on European revenue, has been running for years with no resolution in sight.
For ecommerce sellers operating across borders, this isn't abstract. A 100% tariff on goods from major EU trading partners means higher sourcing costs, more expensive imports, and consumers on both sides paying more for everything.
A few things worth discussing:
Do you think EU countries will back down the way Canada did, or is this a different situation entirely? If these tariffs do go into effect, which product categories do you think get hit hardest?
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u/EcomWatch — 5 days ago
Why does running an ecommerce business still require so much manual work?
I've been thinking about this for a while.
AI has gotten surprisingly good at individual ecommerce tasks.
It can write product descriptions, analyze data, generate images, write ad copy, answer customer questions, create SEO content, summarize reviews, and a hundred other things.
But somehow, running the actual business still feels incredibly fragmented.
A store might have:
Shopify for the store
Meta for ads
Google for analytics and search
Amazon/Flipkart/other marketplaces
Email and WhatsApp
Accounting
Inventory tools
Spreadsheets
Multiple AI tools
And then the business owner is basically the human middleware connecting all of them.
You might notice sales dropping and need to look at analytics.
Then check which products are affected.
Then check inventory.
Then look at ad performance.
Then compare it with the previous week.
Then figure out whether the problem is pricing, traffic, conversion, stock, or something else.
And after finally figuring out what happened, you still have to manually do something about it.
The interesting part is that none of these individual tasks are particularly difficult anymore.
The difficult part seems to be connecting the context between them.
AI can answer: “What happened?”
It can answer: “What should I do?”
And increasingly, it can even answer: “How do I do it?”
But can it understand why these things are connected in the context of one specific business?
That's the part I find interesting.
Maybe the future of ecommerce AI isn't another tool that does one task 10x faster.
Maybe it's an AI that actually understands the business as a whole.
Curious what people running stores think.
What is the most frustrating workflow in your business that requires you to jump between multiple tools just to accomplish one thing?
u/Stunning_Stress_6340 — 5 days ago
We made the AI research the market before it writes the product page, instead of writing from a prompt. The difference was bigger than we expected
Disclosure first: we built this and it just launched, so read it with that in mind. But the lesson is useful whether or not you ever touch our tool.
Most AI tools in ecommerce write product copy from a prompt and a brand name. You get fluent text that says nothing specific about your market, because the model has nothing to work with except your product title and a tone instruction.
We went the other way. The AI does research before it writes a word:
- Pulls your competitors' pages for the same product
- Reads the actual search results for that product
- Gets keyword demand, search volume and CPC
- Scores your existing page against all of it and lists what's weak
Only then does it write. So the page gets built around what's actually ranking in your category instead of what a model guesses sounds good.
After that it generates the product images, publishes the page back to the store, and tracks rankings and traffic so you can tell whether any of it worked.
The part that surprised us most: the research step matters more than which model you pick. Same model, run with and without the competitive and search context, produces output that isn't in the same league. Almost all of our work has gone into what we feed the model, not into prompting it better. If you're building anything similar, that's where I'd spend the time.
It's at https://brandybee.ai and there's a free plan if you want to run it on your own store. Happy to go into detail on any part of how it works.
u/yolosollo — 8 days ago
Everyone's selling "AI will automate your whole shop" right now. Here's the honest version.
I build automation workflows for a living, so I get asked a lot whether AI is about to run people's shops for them. Short answer: no, but it genuinely helps with specific parts. Long version:
What it actually helps with: batch background removal and resizing across a whole catalog, first-draft mockups so you're not paying for a photoshoot on every variant, first-draft listing copy you edit instead of write from scratch, generating options fast so you can pick the strongest one instead of committing to your first idea.
What it does not do: figure out if your product idea is actually wanted, replace real quality control on a physical product, handle a customer who's genuinely upset, know when a trend is dying versus about to take off, or build trust with buyers for you.
The pattern I see with sellers who get burned: they buy a course promising a "fully automated" shop, spend weeks building a pipeline, and skip the part where they need to know their niche and actually look at what sells. The tools are real. The automation replacing your judgment is the part that's oversold.
If you're using AI tools in your workflow and it's actually working for you, curious what it's doing for you specifically. And if you tried something that flopped, that's useful to hear too.
u/f5designstudio — 10 days ago
Hated doing research for things I wanted to buy, so built an assistant that does all of it, and buys it for me. Looking for early users with this problem
Realized there are two kinds of shoppers: the ones who enjoy the research, and the ones who hate it but do it anyway cause buying the wrong thing feels worse.
I'm the second kind, so I built an assistant. Tell it what you need, it researches across reddit, youtube and other sources, gives you one educated opinion, and orders it for you.
Still super nascent. Looking for early users who hate the research but won't just buy the first Google result.
Waitlist: sovitu.com/?ref=reddit
u/JJ030103 — 10 days ago