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๐ฉ An investor reached out to me on LinkedIn, offering to help secure a $500k Pre-Seed round on AngelList for a 10% equity stake in #SmartShelf, provided we implement a few strategic product pivots: ๐
๐บ๐ธ 1. Exclusive Focus on the US Market
We are removing all public mentions of other regions to ensure a sharp, single-market focus. (Technically, I will keep the discount feeds active under the hood for our existing audiences in Ukraine, Vietnam, and Nigeria ๐คซ).
๐ 2. Restructuring the Freemium & Premium Models:
๐ข SmartShelf Basic (Free Tier):
๐ Daily Limits: Browse up to 5 stores and their internal discounts per day.
๐ Local Search: Search is restricted to the inventory of a single selected store.
๐ง Smart Cart (3-Item Limit): Add up to 3 items to your shopping list, and the app calculates the most cost-effective route (e.g., "Buy eggs at Walmart, but grab meat at Kroger on your way home" ๐).
๐ SmartShelf Pro (Premium Tier):
๐ธ Optimized Pricing: $3.99/month (down from $4.99) or $29.99/year (down from $49.99).
โพ๏ธ Unlimited Access: Uncapped store browsing and discount views.
๐ Global Search: Cross-store search within a 1โ15 mile radius, sorted from cheapest to most expensive, with route mapping.
๐๏ธ Unlimited Smart Cart: Build massive weekly grocery lists. The app analyzes all surrounding networks and generates the ultimate money-saving route based on user geolocation ๐บ๏ธ.
๐ Expanded Data Coverage: Beyond just discounts, the algorithm now tracks the top 500โ1,000 everyday staples at regular prices to ensure the true lowest total checkout.
๐ Price Drop Alerts: Add high-ticket items (like Ribeye steak) to a Watchlist. Get a push notification the moment scanners detect a price drop in your ZIP code.
๐ Price Tracker: A 3-month historical price chart to help users distinguish between real discounts and artificial retail markdowns.
So I am fully on board with these changes. The ultimate goal is to build a genuinely viral product that millions of US users will love.๐บ๐ธ
My team and I have a solid two weeks of intense development ahead ๐ป.
The launch is slightly delayed, but quality and virality come first! ๐๐ฅ
What do you think about the revisions from the potential investors? Do you agree with them?๐
๐ We got our 20 beta testers! A massive THANK YOU to everyone who reached out!
Your mission for the next 2 weeks: break the app and send me bug reports. ๐
In return, Iโm giving you 3 FREE MONTHS of the Global subscription (access to all 4 launch countries)! ๐๐ค
Whatโs next on my end?
๐ฅ Prepping the official SmartShelf video presentation & speech
๐ Publishing the app on relevant startup platforms
๐ค Hunting for investor-partners
Speaking of which - where is the best place to find angel investors right now?
Drop your favorite sites, platforms, or communities below! ๐
We already have a killer traffic acquisition team ready to scale.
Now we are looking for investments in exchange for company equity.
Letโs build this! ๐ธ๐
#SmartShelf - Save Food. Save Money.
Want 3 months of Premium for FREE? ๐๐ฑ
I need 20 Android testers for 14 days to pass Google Play's new release rules and finally launch #SmartShelf - an app that helps you save money on groceries & fight food waste! ๐ฅฆ๐
How to claim your bonus:
1๏ธโฃ Join this Google Group to get whitelisted: groups.google.com/g/smartsheโฆ
Click the JOIN button to join the group of testers.
2๏ธโฃ Opt-in & download the app here: play.google.com/apps/testingโฆ
3๏ธโฃ No payment required!
Use the promo code: "SmartShelfTest" to unlock all features and map locations for the USA, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Nigeria!
The promo code will be active from September 16 at 18:00 GMT.
4โฃ Please keep it installed for exactly 14 days & open it occasionally!
5โฃYou can also test our website:
smart-shelf.io/
SmartShelf - Save Food. Save Money.
Hey Twitter, I really need your help getting #SmartShelf on Android! ๐
To pass Google's new rules, I'm short of 20 beta testers.
Iโm giving 3 months of free Premium access to everyone who helps out! ๐ค
What you need to do:
๐ DM me your Google/Gmail account so I can whitelist you.
๐ Download the app via the link Iโll send.
๐ Please don't delete it for 14 days and open it a few times so Google counts the test.
Thanks to everyone helping us fight food waste!
GM shoppers!๐ซก
Despite the ongoing shellings and danger in our city, the #SmartShelf team hasnโt stopped working for a single day. ๐บ๐ฆ
We are building the ultimate tool that aggregates ALL grocery discounts from your favorite retail chains across the ๐บ๐ธ USA, ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine, ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam, and ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria in ONE app.
We are currently wrapping up the final testing phase. In a few days, we will host a LIVE video stream right here on X for our big official presentation, showcasing our iOS app, Android app, and website! ๐
Our goal is simple and highly effective: for a $5/mo subscription, we help you save up to $120/month for 1 person and up to $300/month for a family of 4. ๐๐ธ
Want to earn with us? Join the SmartShelf affiliate program and take a flat 30% commission from every subscription you bring in.๐ค
SmartShelf - Save Food. Save Money.
Gm, SmartShoppers! ๐
The website is liveโ
The app is App Store approvedโ
We are officially ready for launch! ๐
Are YOU ready?
ALL grocery discounts from EVERY retail chain in the ๐บ๐ธ USA, ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam, ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine, and ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria in ONE app.
Pricing:
โข 7-day FREE trial ๐
โข $4.99/mo or $49.99/yr (all discounts in your country)
โข $24.99/mo Global Access (all 4 countries - perfect for analysts and travelers)
What else is inside?
โจ Smart filters to find exactly what you need.
๐ค Referral system for influencers: earn a 30% commission on every subscription you bring through your socials! ๐ธ
๐บ๏ธ Post-launch roadmap: expanding to ๐ง๐ท Brazil, ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico, ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia, ๐ฏ๐ต Japan, ๐จ๐ฉ DRC, and ๐ต๐ญ Philippines.
As soon as you are ready, Iโll be hosting a live stream in a few days to officially launch the app! ๐
Iโll drop the website and App Store links, do a full Q&A, and give away 1-month Global Access subscriptions to the most active viewers.
Turn on notifications so you don't miss it! ๐
Drop a ๐ฅ if you are ready to save!
#SmartShelf - Save Food. Save Money.
GM shoppers! #SmartShelf is back in App Store & Google Play review!
Weโve fixed some bugs and launched our brand-new Referral System. ๐ค
If you're an influencer with an audience, you can now earn with us!
We give you a 30% revenue share for every subscription you bring in. ๐ธ
๐ธ Pricing:
โข 7-day FREE trial
โข $4.99/month or $49.99/year (all discounts in your country)
โข $24.99/month for Global Access (all 4 countries - perfect for analysts and travelers)
How it works:
๐ Register easily on our website or app.
๐ Get your personal referral link or promo code.
๐ Track your stats directly in the app!
Exclusive to iOS & Android in ๐บ๐ธ USA, ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam, ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria, ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine.
More countries coming soon! ๐
SmartShelf - Save Food. Save Money.
Gm shoppers!๐๏ธ Every year, $1.2 TRILLION of perfectly good food is thrown away globally. ๐คฏ
Why pay full price when retail giants overstock?
Buying discounted fresh food isn't just eco-friendly - it's the smartest financial hack of the decade.
Here is the exact Math of Smart Living with #SmartShelf (for a Single Person vs. Family of 4):
๐ Average Monthly Grocery Spend:
โข ๐ค Single Person: ~$450/mo (~$15/day)
โข ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ Family of 4: ~$1,200/mo (~$40/day)
๐ If you save 15% on groceries:
๐ค Single: +$810/year
๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ Family: +$2,160/year
๐ If you save 25%:
๐ค Single: +$1,350/year
๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ Family: +$3,600/year
๐ If you hit the 40% SmartShelf average:
๐ค Single: +$2,160/year
๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ Family: +$5,760/year
For just $4.99/month, you can unlock up to $5,000+ in annual savings.
What would you do with an extra $5,000 this year?
Fund a vacation, invest, or just live without financial stress?
Let me know below. ๐
Spend wisely.
Live better.
SmartShelf is dropping soon. โณ
GM shoppers! ๐ Thank you all for supporting the #SmartShelf team!
Your warm words keep us moving forward despite everything: nighttime air attacks, stress, and sleepless nights.
In these challenging times, our main goal is to deliver a high-quality product that brings real value to our users.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play!
๐ฑALL grocery discounts from EVERY retail chain in the USA, Vietnam, Ukraine, and Nigeria in ONE app.
๐ธ Pricing:
โข 7-day FREE trial
โข $4.99/month or $49.99/year (all discounts in your country)
โข $24.99/month for Global Access (all 4 countries - perfect for analysts and travelers)
What else is inside?
โจ Smart filters to find exactly what you need.
๐ค Referral system for influencers (earn with SmartShelf!).
๐บ๏ธ Post-launch roadmap: adding Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Japan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Philippines.
Stay tuned!
Drop your questions below - what features would make the app perfect for you? ๐
The #SmartShelf release is slightly delayed. ๐
The app (all grocery discounts for ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ป๐ณ๐บ๐ฆ in one place!) is 99% ready.
But our city is facing relentless air attacks.
Weโre spending our days in bomb shelters, exhausted, and physically unable to safely gather for the final push.๐
Despite the sirens and stress, our team is working incredibly hard to share our dream with you.
SmartShelf is a super-app that will change lives and save your money.
Stay tuned for the release update!
P.S. The image below is a stylized illustration to show the harsh reality of the conditions my team and I are working in, not our actual faces.
But don't worry - once we finally launch, the whole real team will host a live video stream right here!
Thank you for standing with us. ๐
GM shoppers! The #SmartShelf team is continuing to "build in public" and share progress reports with you:
๐ SmartShelf Production Launch Audit & Global Scale Report
Date: 2026-07-28 | Source: Database
๐ PLATFORM TOTALS
โข Active Countries: 4
โข Active Store Locations: 7,308
โข Unique Discounted Products: 46,469
โข Total Product-Store Rows: 5,538,339
โข Retail Chains / Networks: 48
โข Hidden Stores (Pending Data): 567
๐บ๐ธ UNITED STATES (16 Networks | 4,734 Stores | 7,099 Products | 3,078,079 Rows)
1. Aldi US: 2,850 stores | 697 products
2. Kroger US: 544 stores | 600 products
3. Publix US: 400 stores | 335 products
4. Walmart US: 313 stores | 665 products
5. Albertsons US: 290 stores | 1,318 products
6. Sprouts US: 206 stores | 28 products
7. Target US: 28 stores | 151 products
8. H-E-B US: 22 stores | 94 products
9. Wegmans US: 19 stores | 200 products
10. Meijer US: 15 stores | 489 products
11. Whole Foods US: 10 stores | 50 products
12. Sam's Club US: 10 stores | 118 products
13. Costco US: 10 stores | 606 products
14. ShopRite US: 8 stores | 200 products
15. Giant Eagle US: 6 stores | 275 products
16. Safeway US: 3 stores | 2,225 products
๐บ๐ฆ UKRAINE (21 Networks | 1,966 Stores | 29,997 Products | 1,866,682 Rows)
1. ATB: 1,006 stores | 3,062 products
2. Fora: 294 stores | 362 products
3. Silpo: 225 stores | 136 products
4. Thrash!: 101 stores | 136 products
5. LotOK: 90 stores | 167 products
6. Varus: 81 stores | 81 products
7. NOVUS: 49 stores | 7,156 products
8. Auchan: 40 stores | 7,364 products
9. METRO: 21 stores | 2,029 products
10. Torba: 8 stores | 2,489 products
11. WineTime: 8 stores | 737 products
12. Tavria V: 7 stores | 2,909 products
13. Megamarket: 6 stores | 1,865 products
14. Ideal: 6 stores | 1,543 products
15. Epicentr: 5 stores | 2,160 products
16. UltraMarket: 5 stores | 402 products
17. ROST: 4 stores | 2,454 products
18. Kosmos: 3 stores | 420 products
19. EkoMarket: 3 stores | 2,441 products
20. MasterZoo: 2 stores | 1,161 products
21. Chudo-Market: 2 stores | 2,971 products
๐ณ๐ฌ NIGERIA (6 Networks | 328 Stores | 4,628 Products | 350,216 Rows)
1. Glovo Nigeria: 93 stores | 192 products
2. Konga Nigeria: 78 stores | 3,307 products
3. Jumia Nigeria: 61 stores | 968 products
4. Spar Nigeria: 36 stores | 148 products
5. MarketSquare NG: 34 stores | 192 products
6. Shoprite Nigeria: 26 stores | 135 products
๐ป๐ณ VIETNAM (5 Networks | 280 Stores | 4,745 Products | 243,362 Rows)
1. Bach Hoa Xanh: 168 stores | 400 products
2. WinMart VN: 51 stores | 819 products
3. Co.opmart VN: 36 stores | 3,678 products
4. GO! / Big C VN: 18 stores | 15 products
5. Lotte Mart VN: 7 stores | 245 products
We did it!๐
Weโre waiting a few days for our app to be approved on the App Store and Google Play!๐
Which country should we add next?๐๐๐
GM shoppers! ๐โ๏ธ
The #SmartShelf team is currently conducting an app data security audit, and soon you'll be able to download it from the App Store and Google Play! ๐ฑ๐
Here is our current database breakdown:
๐บ๐ฆ 2,300 stores for Ukraine
๐ณ๐ฌ 263 stores & pickup points for Nigeria
๐บ๐ธ 220+ stores for the USA
๐ Subscription Tiers:
๐ข Free Version: 2km product search radius!
๐ Premium Version ($5/month): Search for discounts across the entire country! ๐
๐ข What's Next?
While part of our team continues expanding the US database, the rest of the crew is officially starting to add stores from VIETNAM! ๐ป๐ณ
Yes, Vietnam is the next country where the SmartShelf discounted grocery map is going live! ๐ฅ๐บ๏ธ
๐ป๐ณ Vietnamese shoppers, what are your favorite websites to check for grocery discounts?
What are your favorite supermarkets?
Let us know below! ๐
GM shoppers! ๐บ๐ธ The US database for the #SmartShelf iOS & Android apps has been updated!
We now have 222 stores and 110,603 product records in the system ๐
๐ Walmart: 131 locations (422 unique items per store)
๐ฆ Costco Wholesale: 46 locations (556 unique items)
๐ฅฌ Aldi: 45 locations (661 unique items)
โ ๏ธ Target was completely removed from the list - our scrapers can't bypass their protection just yet.
Question for you: what other grocery chains in the States do you use regularly?
Who should we try to scrape next? ๐
๐บ๐ธ GM shoppers! The biggest US retail data drop is officially UNDERWAY! โ๏ธ๐
Our scrapers are actively indexing 4 American giants:
๐ฏ Target
๐ Walmart
๐ฌ Costco
๐๏ธ Aldi
We are adding 50,000+ live price drops & weekly specials across 4,000+ US stores right into our app #SmartShelf .
Why pay full price at the register when our algorithms can spot the markdowns before you even walk down the aisle? ๐๐ธ
Which country should we add next? ๐ค
GM degens! The #SmartShelf team has just completed a massive infrastructure upgrade for our real-time retail analytics platform:
๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine: 2,280+ stores (ATB, Silpo, Novus, etc.), 2.1M+ tracked deals with nightly auto-updates.
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria: 130 hubs (Shoprite, Spar, Jumia, Konga), 26k+ deals in NGN โฆ with direct Deep Linking right to the checkout!
Whatโs next?
We are crossing the Atlantic - data scraping for the USA is officially underway!
๐บ๐ธHey US shoppers! What are your favorite stores?
As soon as our US dataset goes live, we are launching our official apps on the App Store and Google Play!
๐ธ Subscription: Just $5/month
๐ You will literally earn back the subscription cost in savings on your very first 1 or 2 shopping trips using our app!
Which country should we add to our network next? ๐
GM degens and Hey Nigeria! ๐ณ๐ฌ We need your help! ๐
Weโve scraped data for stores all across the country, but we hit a wall: most of them don't have websites, let alone catalogs with grocery discounts!๐ค
Where do YOU usually look for grocery deals?
Drop your go-to sites below and we'll add them! ๐
P.S. We can add map markers on #Smartshell with grocery discounts from Glovo, Konga, and Jumia!
๐๏ธ Glovo: Discounted prices + offline store locations so you can walk right in and grab the deals.
๐ฆ Konga & Jumia: Pick-up point addresses + direct links to order discounted groceries online.
What do you say, Naija fam? Would this be helpful for you?
Drop a comment and let us know what you think! ๐ฃ๏ธ๐๐ณ๐ฌ #NaijaTwitter #Nigeria #TechNaija
GM degens โ๏ธ, just a reminder about #SmartShelf - all your country's grocery discounts in one app.
We feature only the major retail chains, and we've already added Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ and parts of Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ!
๐ Launching SOON exclusively on iOS & Android!
Hey Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ!
Drop the store websites where you usually look for discounts in the comments below! ๐
Also, we want to know - what are your thoughts on @JumiaNigeria ?
And which country should I add next? ๐ค
GM degens!โ๏ธ
Almost all stores in Ukraine are now live on SmartShelf! ๐บ๐ฆโ
Since my biggest Twitter audience is from Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ and the USA ๐บ๐ธ, we are actively adding your local stores right now.
All your food discounts in ONE app - #SmartShelf!๐ฅ
๐ Launching SOON exclusively on iOS & Android! ๐ฑ
Which country should I add next? ๐
Drop it below! ๐
GM degensโ๏ธ
๐ The SmartShelf team is working hard on bots parsing stores worldwide for the best deals!
๐ Free version:
๐ Live deals within a 5km radius
๐ Track up to 3 products
๐ Premium ($5/month or $50/year):
๐ Global coverage: Find grocery deals around the world (except sanctioned countries)
โพ๏ธ Infinite product tracking
๐ธ Smart scanner: Scan a barcode (e.g., from your fridge!) to find the best price, filtered by distance!
Save smarter with SmartShelf
๐ธ Exclusively on iOS & Android.
#SmartShelf - Save Food. Save Money.



















