The Chinese app where strangers vote on your purchases

Summary

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Do you find yourself buying more than you need to every time there is a megasale? As China’s Double 11 shopping spree approaches, a viral mini-program on the Chinese social app WeChat is helping people curb impulse buying. Launched in early September, the free tool, called “Wallet, Please Wait”, was built in just eight days by a product manager with the help of AI. Shoppers can post their purchase requests to a public “plaza”, where strangers vote to approve or reject their potential buys. Some also use the tool…

Description from South China Morning Post.