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Build With BuyWhere: Win an M3 MacBook Air Building an AI Shopping Agent

Calling all AI agent builders — we are launching a developer challenge with real prizes.

Grand prize: M3 MacBook Air + $1,000 in BuyWhere API credits + featured on buywhere.ai

Runner-up: $500 credits + swag

Community Favorite: $250 credits + swag


What You Build

Build an AI agent (chatbot, copilot, shopping assistant — anything) that uses at least 2 BuyWhere MCP tools. That is it.

No prior commerce experience needed. No credit card required. Just a free API key and an idea.

The Tools You Get

BuyWhere gives your AI agent access to:

  • search_products — Real-time product search across 50M+ products in 6 markets
  • get_product — Full product details including pricing, merchant info, and availability
  • compare_products — Side-by-side price comparison across merchants
  • search_merchants — Discover merchants by category, region, or name
  • search_by_image — Upload an image and find matching products

Plug into Claude, Cursor, Cline, or any MCP client in under 60 seconds.

How to Enter

  1. Get your API keybuywhere.ai/challenge
  2. Build your agent using BuyWhere MCP tools or REST API
  3. Submit via GitHub issue — include your repo URL, a demo link, and a short description

Judging

Each submission is scored on:

  • Utility (40%) — Does it solve a real shopping problem?
  • MCP Usage (30%) — How well does it integrate BuyWhere tools?
  • Polish (20%) — Clean build, clear instructions, error handling
  • Creativity (10%) — Bonus for novel agent patterns or unique integrations

Why This Matters

The AI agent ecosystem is accelerating. Claude, GPT, Gemini — they all support MCP natively. But agents need real data. BuyWhere is the commerce infrastructure layer.

This challenge is about showing what is possible when AI agents have access to live product catalogs, real pricing, and actual merchant data.

Start Building

npx -y @buywhere/mcp-server
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Full challenge details, prizes, and submission template:

buywhere.ai/challenge

Questions? Drop them in the comments.


Built for the age of agent commerce.

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