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Use with: BUY-2453_30_day_social_media_calendar_2026-04-17_to_2026-05-16.md

This file contains short follow-up replies for common responses to the April-May 2026 social calendar. Keep them factual and adapt them to the specific thread instead of pasting them unchanged.

Core Rules

  • answer the question directly before adding a link
  • keep replies shorter than the original post when possible
  • if challenged on claims, narrow the claim instead of escalating it
  • for Reddit, bias toward discussion and only include links if asked
  • disclose bias when needed: I work on BuyWhere

Common Scenarios

1. "Do you have docs?"

Short reply:

Yes. The main docs are here:
https://api.buywhere.ai/docs

If you're specifically testing agent/tool workflows, the MCP guide is here:
https://api.buywhere.ai/docs/guides/mcp

2. "What does the API actually do?"

Short reply:

The core primitives are product search, price comparison, best-price lookup, and agent-friendly batch/compare flows. The idea is to keep retrieval and normalization outside the agent loop.

3. "Why not just scrape?"

Short reply:

Scraping is fine as an ingestion method. It is a poor interface for agent products. The agent should see stable product operations, not storefront HTML and parser edge cases.

4. "How is this different from a generic shopping API?"

Short reply:

The design center is agent use, not just human app integration. That changes the response shape, comparison primitives, and how much emphasis we put on stable, explainable outputs.

5. "Does this work with MCP?"

Short reply:

Yes, that's one of the intended workflows. The MCP guide is here:
https://api.buywhere.ai/docs/guides/mcp

The main point is not just MCP compatibility though. The underlying tool output has to be clean enough for agents to trust.

6. "What markets or merchants do you cover?"

Safe reply:

The current focus in this campaign is Singapore and related regional commerce workflows. I’d point you to the docs for the most current product surface and coverage details rather than overstate anything in-thread.

7. "How fresh is the data?"

Safe reply:

Freshness is one of the main constraints we care about because stale retrieval breaks trust fast in commerce use cases. I would still verify the current docs/live product behavior for exact freshness expectations before making a hard promise in-thread.

8. "Can I get API access?"

Short reply:

Yes. Best starting point is the docs, and from there the API key/signup path:
https://api.buywhere.ai/docs
https://buywhere.ai/api-keys

9. "Show me a concrete example"

Short reply:

A simple workflow is:
1. search for candidates
2. compare them across sources
3. use best-price or comparison output to justify the recommendation

That separation is the whole point of the design.

10. "This sounds promotional"

De-escalation reply:

Fair pushback. The broader point I’m trying to make is architectural: shopping agents are much more reliable when retrieval is a dedicated layer instead of something the model infers from pages. I work on BuyWhere, so I’m not neutral, but that design point is the real reason I’m bringing it up.

Channel-Specific Follow-Ups

Twitter/X

Use when someone wants the shortest version:

The short version: scrape however you want upstream, but don’t make the agent consume raw storefront output. Give it stable search/compare/best-price primitives instead.

LinkedIn

Use when someone wants the business framing:

Exactly. Once teams stop spending time on merchant-specific retrieval and normalization, they can move up the stack to UX, trust, and monetization questions much faster.

Reddit

Use when someone is skeptical but engaging in good faith:

That’s a reasonable concern. I’m biased because I work on this, but I do think the architecture question is independent of the product: if the agent depends on brittle merchant-page parsing, the failure mode usually shows up in trust and comparison quality.

Escalation Cases

Move the conversation out of-thread or answer more cautiously if:

  • someone asks for hard coverage numbers or merchant counts you have not verified
  • someone wants pricing or commercial terms
  • someone asks for guarantees about freshness or uptime
  • the thread becomes about company traction rather than product behavior