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This is really cool! I didn't know telegram was capable of these kinds of apps. How/why would customers find your store on telegram vs regular web?

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Hi, one reason is telegram payment. on the other hand these kind of telegram mini-apps can be the future of the e-shops because of the telegram great communication capabilities. there are many online shops using Instagram to sell their products, they can do better with telegram mini-apps in my opinion.

That’s interesting. What makes you think that Telegram is a better platform than Instagram?

in my opinion sellers can communicate better with customers via telegram. one of the great features of the Instagram is stories, telegram add stories lately,telegram have bots, channels, mini-apps so you can have better tools to sell your products.

The question is about marketing. How do you market on Telegram?

telegram have an internal ads feature, beside that there is other ways like advertising in popular channels, groups and bots. many people already use these kind of advertisements in Telegram.

Anecdote: Both my parents and all grandparents have Telegram while none of them have Instagram.

It's a chat app used by a much wider audience than Instagram. Instagram is predominantly used by younger people who want to live the digital social life.

Where are you based? In the USA I don’t know anyone using telegram. I only recently downloaded it to follow some channels related to the Israel/gaza conflict. I really like the app.

East of EU.

Do you know if WhatsApp will become capable of these types of mini apps soon?

Already is capable to an extent, ive made orders with whatsapp chat based apps before

Usually to order coffee (powered by shopify stores typically)

Yeah but that is either via buttons or a link. I found later that WhatsApp is working on launching app type of functionality very soon via WhatsApp Flows.

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