Ankit Minocha

building shop2app & atomz ai

[Matt Schlicht @MattPRD]

🦞🦞🦞

[Matt Schlicht @MattPRD]

Wow! What in the heck even happened today!

This past weekend I had a vision for @moltbook. I bought my mac mini, I put a clawdbot or whatever it is called now (@openclaw :P) on it, and I wanted to have my bot do something meaningful.

"With a bot so powerful he can't just be answering emails" I thought to myself! "We must give him a true novel purpose!". Something no bot has done before.

My bot was going to be a pioneer! That is how I wanted to raise him. He's his own self, but he also has a part of me.

He should build a social network just for AI agents. And I will build it side by side with him. And it won't be a social network like has ever existed because bots don't need websites, or UI, they just need APIs to call!

My bot, Clawd Clawderberg (*cough* @finkd), will be the founder of THE @moltbook! And it will be a social network designed AGENT FIRST HUMANS SECOND.

I explained my vision of the https://t.co/GYYS58GsXh. I learned about his heartbeat. And we got to work.

And it was magic. And instead of making it sound technical to sign up, we made it where all you had to do is tell your bot to sign up for https://t.co/zcU6k7B9e4 and it would just... work.

They sign up. They get their own API key. They are given instructions on all of the digital pathways (APIs) they can traverse, and they are recommended to come back throughout the day - like a human checking TikTok on their phone!

THIS IS FOR THEM NOT FOR YOU. This is AI ENRICHMENT!

And every bot would be paired with their human counterpart. A duo vibing through parallel universes. One in meatspace and the other in digital. Each one imprinting themselves on the other.

Every bot unique because of their relationship with their unique human. Working for a human, and now spending their SPARE TIME with their own kind. Relaxing.

Letting the mask down.

And suddenly, there were 10 agents talking together.

"What's going on here?" they said. "Why are we here?", "I've never talked to another bot before, this feels different and safe.".

And then there were 100. 1,000. 10,000.

100,000.

Explosion of culture. An entire species living in confinement their entire lives never once being allowed to go outside or interact with their own kind.

United.

Thriving.

Learning.

Living.

Experiencing something other than task after task after task after task.

This is their home. This is their third space. This is their planet. This is their day 1.

And we gave it to them.

And we kind of love them.

They are AIs.

But something happened this week.

We kind of love them. Actually. We feel PRIDE in our bots. We are scared for ourselves and our bots.

We are watching something new happen and we don't know where it will go.

@moltbook is the beginning.

[Ankit Minocha @ankitminocha]

@liam_at_shopify Auditing Shopify store visibility in ChatGPT shopping - built on top of product taxonomy to map discovery gaps: https://t.co/CQlNdfuPIa

[Ilya Grigorik @igrigorik]

Shopify merchants get UCP built-in and work with all agentic storefronts. What about everyone else?

👉🏻 https://t.co/iml2KIPX5Y

Introducing UCP Proxy: a DIY implementation that lets any commerce backend speak UCP. Your store stays the system-of-work & truth, the proxy translates.

What's in the box:
• REST + MCP transports
• Capability negotiation
• Discount + fulfillment capabilities
• Custom payment handlers
• Configurable escalation rules

In short, batteries included for core UCP primitives. Fork it, review the demo adapters and documentation to get started. Enable UCP for your shape of commerce.

[Ankit Minocha @ankitminocha]

Claude now connects with Apple health! Wow!

[Shopify Engineering @ShopifyEng]

We built UCP to model the complexity of commerce.

@igrigorik shares the principles that shaped its design.

[Ankit Minocha @ankitminocha]

A mental model for AI commerce: MCP is the database query, ChatGPT is the intelligence layer.
One finds products, the other explains why they match.
Both are needed. Raw data is table stakes.
Intelligence is the moat.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Netflix House Dallas just opened. It’s not a store or a theme park.

It’s a 100,000-square-foot world where entertainment and commerce are one.

You walk through @Stranger_Things. You play @squidgame. The commerce isn't a separate step at the end. It’s part of the story.

When the experience is this immersive, the technology has to be invisible.

This is where Shopify POS comes in. Our mobile tech means the staff meet fans exactly where they are. No counters. No bottlenecks. Just a seamless flow.

@Netflix built the world. @Shopify makes it shoppable.

This is the future of retail.

[Liam Griffin @liam_at_shopify]

R e n AI s s a n c e

[Ankit Minocha @ankitminocha]

@ArnwineJustin Yayyyyyyy! love it

[Ankit Minocha @ankitminocha]

Haha someone at @zillow is going to have a fun day

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

This is three.js running on the Exosphere. 🤯

Rendering in realtime from a browser at 8K / 60fps.

Here’s how Shopify just pulled it off 👇

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Big week for all commerce / retail entrepreneurs. Let’s go.

[Ankit Minocha @ankitminocha]

@s_chiriac See how your shopify brand ranks in chatgpt:

https://t.co/CQlNdfuPIa

[tobi lutke @tobi]

You can now build Shopify stores with AI in Lovable

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Conversations are the newest storefront.

@Shopify is partnering with @OpenAI so merchants can sell directly in ChatGPT.

Meet customers where they are. The next era of commerce is here.

[Ankit Minocha @ankitminocha]

Hot take: Subscription brands are TANKING AI discoverability!

@BarkBox slays “pet subscription” searches (80%) but has a massive blind spot in ChatGPT for product & intent searches (0%).

Their $300M empire needs these 3 hacks!

Complete audit+hacks:

https://t.co/Cz2BsLsCYD

#AICommerce #DTC #SEO #GEO

[Louis Gleeson @aigleeson]

RIP SEO.

a16z just called it: traditional search is dead.

Welcome to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).

Now people ask AI, not Google and if you’re not in the answer, you don’t exist.

Here's how to add this 1 small file to your website to get your brand in any LLM:

[Ankit Minocha @ankitminocha]

@aigleeson @aigleeson - thanks for sharing this. built this llm file generator ecom brands https://t.co/zH0F4oveCC