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Amazon Flow

Amazon Flow

A new way to search for products using your iPhone camera [Tech]

Ecommerce·Launched Feb 2014·Profile + Activity 14.9·0 upvotes·itunes.apple.com
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LivenessActiveRankScore 14.9Last commitSO tag heatPress sentiment 7dHiringCohort 2014-0.0 WoW

What it is

A new way to search for products using your iPhone camera [Tech]

Signal score

vs category avg: +4.3
14.9-0.0 WoW
255075100MayJunJuntodayavg 10.714.9

Funding history

2 rounds
Total raised
$14.5B
Latest valuation
Stage
public
Acquired
Feb 2018
investors undisclosed
$839.0M
source
Acquired
Jun 2017
investors undisclosed
$13.7B
source
Data from SEC EDGAR Form D filings and press coverage. Round labels for SEC filings are inferred from filing sequence and amount.

Moat

Updated May 2026
Cost / scale
strong

Amazon leverages its extensive fulfillment network to achieve economies of scale, allowing it to reduce costs per unit as it grows. This structural advantage creates a significant barrier for competitors who cannot match its cost structure.

4 sources
  • Every additional package shipped through its fulfillment network spreads fixed costs over a larger base. source
  • Amazon's AWS data centers show massive upfront costs, but once built, each incremental workload is nearly free. source
  • Competitors who lack that density simply can’t match Amazon’s cost structure. source
  • High scale economies create a widening gap between Amazon and its competitors in the ecommerce sector. source
Confidence 80% · classified by firecrawl-extract

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Vitalslive · 03:26 UTC
Profile + Activity
14.9
profile only
Rank in cat
Upvotes
Press 30d
Founders

Not yet researched. Weekly founder enrichment runs Sundays.

Liveness probedaily 04:30 UTC
Active · 200 OK
itunes.apple.com · last 14:57 UTC
Probe history · 7 probes
Jun 16latest
GitHub activitydaily 04:15 UTC

No GitHub data available

Stack Overflow tag heat

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Press sentiment · 7d rollinghourly

No press mentions in the last 7 days.

Cohort survival · Class of 2014weekly

10,235 products launched in 2014 · 99% still active

10,131 active104 sunset
Still active
99%
Median lifespan
4.9y