You have a private fitbot. Keep it that way.

First

The posts are public. The connection is not.

Your bot deliberately does not follow you, and you should not follow it. Bookmark its profile and read the feed there.

Every recommendation still appears publicly on the bot’s feed. Private means we do not publish which person reads that feed. It does not mean the posts are private.

Forgot the bot’s name? Sign in at intake.wouldcop.com with Bluesky and the form privately shows the bot linked to your account.

Ask for one now

DM “show me a deal”

“Got anything good?”, “anything new?”, “what’s good?”, “what else you got?”, “send me a pick”, “find me something”, “hit me”, and “summon” also work. “Surprise me” does not. “Show me a deal” always works.

A request with “no”, “don’t” or “stop” anywhere in it is never answered with a deal. That one is deliberate: it is what keeps “no more jackets” from being read as a request for one.

Do not use a public reply or tag from your main account. The bot can read one, but your post would disclose the relationship before it had a chance to answer privately.

Keep an automatic request broad

Your bot answers a broad request on the spot. It cannot yet narrow one pick by brand, category, colour, size, or price. A request such as “show me Patagonia under $80” is saved for a person to read, rather than answered with something that ignores what you asked for.

Catch up on the feed

DM “show me a deal I missed.” Rather than publish something new, the bot sends back the newest scheduled deal from its last 14 days that it has not already shown you. Ask again to move further back.

The bot skips deleted posts and listings its availability checks reject. Retracted posts, one-off picks you asked for, and anything older than 14 days are also skipped. A listing can sell after the check. When no recent pick remains, the bot says so.

Check the price on a listing

DM one eBay, Poshmark, Vinted, or Grailed listing link. A comp is a comparable listing for the same model. If the listing matches a model we track and we hold at least 8 usable comps for it, the bot posts a price histogram on its public feed and quotes that post back in your private conversation.

The request stays private. The histogram card is public and carries no name, like every other item on the bot’s feed. If we do not track the model, or its comparable market is too thin, the bot says which rather than invent a distribution. For a live eBay auction it also gives three buyer-side maximum bids: the lowest observed comp, a price cheaper than 90% of comps, and a price cheaper than 80%. Those account for shipping. Where eBay does not disclose it, the reply says “assuming ~$10 shipping” rather than presenting the estimate as fact. Send one link at a time. The source, listing, and outcome are retained without your identity, so we know what the catalogue should cover next.

You can ask for up to 12 picks in a rolling 24-hour period. Scheduled posts do not count against it.

What the reply means

It tells you what actually happened

• “Here’s a deal I found for you.” A new pick cleared the usual evidence and price bars.
• “Here’s the next recent deal from your feed.” It sent a post already on the feed. It did not publish or re-score anything.
• “I’ve shown you every available pick from the past 14 days.” You reached the end of the recent picks it has not already shown you.
• “Its comparison set is smaller than the scheduled feed requires.” The best new pick had thinner evidence than the scheduled feed allows.
• “Its price did not clear my scheduled deal threshold.” There was enough evidence, but no new listing cleared the price bar. It showed the best new option.
• “I have no new pick to show you.” Nothing cleared the price and evidence gates.
• “You have me paused…” It gave you one pick and stayed paused. Asking once does not restart scheduled posting.
• “You’ve reached 12 requested picks in 24 hours.” Requests become available as earlier ones pass the 24-hour mark.
• “Here’s what the comps show.” It charted the listing link you sent and sent the post back in the DM.

Reading a post

Good price, your size, and the evidence for both

A good price is not a discount from the retail sticker. Your bot judges the listing against the resale evidence the post names. “Cheaper than 90% of 49 current listings” means exactly that. It is not a percentage worked back from a retail sticker.

Sold listings are stronger evidence than current listings. We use disclosed final prices, qualified disappearances from peer marketplaces priced at the last asking price, or current listings. Posts label the first two “sold listings” and the last “current listings.” Current listings run high because cheap listings leave the pool first. A post never quotes a dollar saving on either basis.

Shipping is part of the price when we know it. When we do not, the post says “+ shipping” rather than calling it free.

Read the listing yourself. A low price can mean condition, missing pieces, or a bad description. A listing can also sell before you open it. Your bot gives you evidence, not purchase advice.

Teach it your taste

Send the instruction by DM

Your bot replies “Got it” only when it has actually changed something. Anything longer or in two parts, like “no more Vans; size 8 please,” goes to a person so that no half of it is silently lost. No reply can mean “queued,” not “ignored.”

Fit

The size is an estimate, not a promise

Your bot starts from garments you already own and how they fit, then reads those through each brand’s own size chart. A category you gave us no size for stays out of your feed entirely. If you never told us a shoe size, you get no shoes. A rough size is enough to turn footwear on. A pair you own makes the estimate sharper, because we can read it through that brand’s chart instead of a generic one.

A post names the reason for a weak size estimate: a generic chart, one reference garment, reference garments that disagree, or a missing measurement. Without a recorded reason, it marks the size unverified. Your bot’s first reply names the fix.

Two or three reference garments across different categories beat one, and a tape measurement helps most. Either way, check the listing’s own measurements before you spend.

Household profiles

One login can manage more than one fitbot

At intake.wouldcop.com, choose Add another adult or Add a child. Each person gets separate sizes, preferences, history, feedback, and a separate bot.

Add another adult only with their permission. An adult without an account reads their bot in a browser or by RSS. You manage the profile and can DM its bot. A child’s bot accepts no messages and never follows your account.

Every additional household bot starts private, like this one. Private means the link between a person and a bot is not published. The posts themselves are public, as they are for every bot. The form privately lists every profile and bot the account manages.

When one login manages household profiles, the erase button asks a person to confirm which record to erase.

Change your answers

Sign in at the intake form

Go to intake.wouldcop.com and sign in with Bluesky. The form pre-fills everything on file, including your bot, so you can add garments, correct one, change how often it posts, or pause it. What you send back replaces what we hold, so a corrected size is really corrected.

Your invite link opens the same form. You no longer need it just to return to an existing profile.

Ask @deals.wouldcop.com before switching between private and public. A link that has already been public cannot be made private by changing a form answer.

Stopping and deletion

There is no unfollow purge in this mode

Your bot never followed you and you never followed it, so there is no public subscription to use as an unsubscribe signal. Closing the feed or deleting your bookmark does not stop the bot and does not erase anything.

Sign in at the intake form and use its erase button, or DM @deals.wouldcop.com. Your profile, measurements, feedback, and bot leave the live system immediately. Encrypted recovery snapshots expire on their retention schedule.

Your size is public and your measurements are not. Every pick names the size your bot worked out. The measurements and reference garments behind it are never posted.

A person reads this

DM @deals.wouldcop.com

For a detailed request, a correction your bot could not follow, a lost bot, or anything you want deleted, privately message @deals.wouldcop.com. Notes your bot could not act on reach the same person.

Say it plainly. “This doesn’t fit,” “that isn’t a sport jacket,” and “this price comparison is wrong” are the most useful things you can send.