You have a pseudonymous 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 directly.

Every recommendation still appears publicly on the bot’s feed. “Private” means the system does not publish which person reads that feed. It does not mean the listings themselves are private.

Forgot the bot’s name? Go to intake.wouldcop.com, sign in with Bluesky, and the form will privately show the bot linked to your account.

Ask for one now

DM “show me a deal”

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

Keep an automatic request broad

The bot can immediately answer a broad request. It cannot yet limit that one pick by brand, category, colour, size, or price. A request such as “show me Patagonia under $80” is saved for a human instead of being answered with something that ignores your qualifiers.

Catch up on the feed

DM “show me a deal I missed.” Instead of finding and publishing something new, the bot sends back the newest scheduled deal from its last 14 days that it has not already resurfaced for you. Ask again to move backward through recent picks.

This checks that the Bluesky post still exists; it cannot promise the marketplace listing is still available. Retracted posts, requested one-off picks, and anything older than 14 days are skipped. When there is nothing else to resurface, the bot says so rather than silently treating the request as “show me a deal.”

Check the price on a listing

DM one eBay, Poshmark, Vinted, or Grailed listing link. If it matches an exact product family we track and there are at least 8 usable comps, the bot posts a price histogram on its pseudonymous public feed and quotes that post back in your private conversation.

The request remains private; the unattributed histogram card is public, like every other item on the bot's feed. If the family is not in the catalogue, or its comparable market is too thin, the bot says so instead of inventing a distribution. For a live eBay auction, it also gives maximum item bids at the lowest observed comp, cheaper than 90% of comps, and cheaper than 80%. It accounts for shipping; if 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 requested source, listing, and outcome are retained without your identity to help decide what the catalogue should cover next.

You can request up to 12 picks in a rolling 24-hour period. Scheduled posts do not use that allowance.

What the reply means

It will tell you what actually happened

• “Here’s a deal I found for you.” A new pick cleared the normal evidence and price bars.
• “Here’s a recent deal you may have missed.” It sent an existing scheduled feed post in the DM; it did not publish or re-score the listing.
• “I don’t have another recent feed pick to resurface right now.” You reached the end of the recent unresurfaced history.
• “I didn’t have enough comps…” The best new pick had thinner market evidence than the scheduled feed normally allows.
• “Nothing new looked like an especially good price…” There was enough evidence, but no new listing cleared the normal price bar. Since you asked, it showed the best safe option.
• “Nothing worth your time right now…” It found nothing safe and useful enough to send. Silence would be easier; this answer is more honest.
• “You’ve got me paused…” It gave you one requested pick and then stayed paused. Asking once does not restart scheduled posting.
• “That’s all the picks…” You reached the request limit. Try again after the oldest requests fall outside the rolling day.
• “Here’s what the comps show.” It published a price histogram and sent the post back in the DM.

Reading a post

Good price, your size — and the evidence for both

“Good price” is not a discount off retail. The bot compares a listing against comparable ones that sold. “Cheaper than 90% of 49 sold listings” means exactly that; it is not a percentage invented from MSRP.

“Current listings” is weaker evidence than “sold listings.” When the sale population is too thin, the post compares the price with what is listed now and names that basis. It never quotes a dollar saving, on any basis.

Shipping is part of the price when known. If shipping is unknown, the post says “+ shipping” instead of pretending it is free.

The listing is still yours to inspect. A low price can reflect condition, missing pieces, or a bad description. Listings also sell quickly. The bot gives you evidence, not purchase advice.

Teach it your taste

Send the instruction by DM

The bot says “Got it” only after a simple instruction is applied. A longer or compound note, such as “no more Vans; size 8 please,” is queued for human review so one part is not silently lost. No immediate reply can mean “queued,” not “ignored.”

Fit

The size is an estimate, not a promise

The bot starts with garments you already own and how they fit, then maps those anchors through each brand’s size chart. A category with no useful anchor stays out of your feed: if you never gave a shoe size, it should not guess at shoes.

When confidence is lower, the post says why: it may name a generic chart, one reference garment, disagreeing anchors, a missing measurement, or simply mark the size unverified. The first reply beneath the deal explains the specific issue and the best way to improve it.

Two or three reference garments across categories are better than one; a tape measurement is better still. Always check the seller’s measurements before buying.

Household profiles

One login can manage more than one fitbot

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

Add another adult only with their permission. An off-Bluesky adult reads their bot in a browser or by RSS; the signed-in account holder manages the profile and can DM its bot. A child's bot accepts no messages and never follows the parent's account.

Every additional household bot starts in this pseudonymous pinned-feed mode. The intake form privately lists every profile and bot the account manages.

For now, if your login manages household profiles, the erase control stops and asks a human to help instead of guessing which person's records you meant to remove.

Change your answers

Sign in at the intake form

Go to intake.wouldcop.com and sign in with Bluesky. It pre-fills what is on file, including your linked bot, so you can add garments, correct an anchor, change cadence, or pause and resume.

If you still have your invite link, it opens the same form. You no longer need the token merely to return to an existing profile.

Ask @deals.wouldcop.com before changing privacy modes. Public interaction cannot be made historically 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 edge to use as an unsubscribe signal. Merely 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 control, or DM @deals.wouldcop.com. Your profile, measurements, feedback, and bot are removed rather than hidden behind a flag.

Your measurements are never published. A size the bot concludes may appear in a public pick; the body measurements and reference garments behind it do not.

A person reads this

DM @deals.wouldcop.com

For a detailed request, a correction the bot could not understand, a lost bot, or anything you want deleted, privately message @deals.wouldcop.com. Detailed notes queued by your bot reach the same human workflow.

If something is wrong, say so plainly. “This does not fit,” “that is not a sport jacket,” and “this price comparison is wrong” are useful reports.