The market has seen several mediocre solutions that nobody loves. Unless you can offer something fundamentally different, you’ll likely struggle to stand out or make money.
Don't build it.
You're entering a crowded space with your restaurant feedback tool. The 'Swamp' category isn't the most encouraging, indicating that many similar solutions exist but haven't found widespread success. With 17 similar products already identified, competition is significant. Engagement, measured by average comments, is low across these similar products. This suggests that it may be challenging to grab users' attention and get them to actively engage with your tool. The lack of strong 'use' and 'buy' signals from existing solutions further emphasizes the uphill battle. In short, many have tried to solve this problem, and it may be difficult to stand out, but with some creative pivoting, you can differentiate yourself and find a foothold in the market, provided you can find a specific niche or underserved segment.
You're entering a crowded space with your restaurant feedback tool. The 'Swamp' category isn't the most encouraging, indicating that many similar solutions exist but haven't found widespread success. With 17 similar products already identified, competition is significant. Engagement, measured by average comments, is low across these similar products. This suggests that it may be challenging to grab users' attention and get them to actively engage with your tool. The lack of strong 'use' and 'buy' signals from existing solutions further emphasizes the uphill battle. In short, many have tried to solve this problem, and it may be difficult to stand out, but with some creative pivoting, you can differentiate yourself and find a foothold in the market, provided you can find a specific niche or underserved segment.
Here’s a tool I’ve created for businesses to easily collect feedback from their customers and improve their customer relationships.Feel free to try it out for free and let me know what you think!
Hello everyone!My co-founder and I are developing a mid-sized travel platform. (By the way, we met on cofounder-matching, an excellent platform)In the process of development, we decided to create a feature to collect customer reviews on the site. It's simple enough: You put a rating in stars and write a review.It seemed incredible to me to launch this project separately from the main project because, in my experience of working in companies, it was often done again.I started this project as a test run for Indie Making.Right now, the functionality is pretty modest (as well as the cost); you put in a script, collect data, and analyze it.If you have any ideas on how to improve the project, what to pay attention to, or what functionality is sorely lacking, I will be glad to listen and discuss them.Thank you!
Users appreciate the idea of collecting feedback and find the smart plug concept interesting. There is a suggestion to include a live stream feature, particularly for morning sessions trying out products, which is noted to be popular. However, there is a mention of a server-side exception bug that needs to be addressed.
The product has received criticism for encountering a server-side exception bug and disapproval from HN moderators.
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Rewindr makes it super easy for you to collect reviews and display them on your online shop or website, it provides you with tools to analyze the customers journey from browsing the reviews to making purchase decisions.
The product launch received positive feedback, with users congratulating the team and expressing love for the product. There is interest in its customer-generated content and its ability to validate the product. Users inquired about expanding channel support beyond email/SMS and integrating social media reviews. One user also asked about marketing strategies beyond Product Hunt.
Hi HN,Over the past 4 months I built Reviewcheck on the side. Reviewcheck collects reviews for a business from different platforms such as Google, Trustpilot and Facebook and automatically generates a report with actionable insights to improve.I actually had the idea when I was in a restaurant that received quite some reviews from customers, but hadn’t changed anything in the last 10 years. I think (and hope haha) there are a lot of similar businesses that collect online reviews but aren’t really leveraging them because they do not have the time or do not want to pay a monthly subscription.An example report can be found at https://www.reviewcheck.co/example-report. Since the possibilities for this report are endless, I am curious to hear what you are missing. General feedback or questions on how it was built are also very welcome of course. Thanks a lot for taking the time to check it out!
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A Review Automation Tool for Hotels & Restaurants streamlines online reputation management by automating the collection, monitoring, analysis, and response to customer reviews across platforms like TripAdvisor, Google, and Yelp.
The Review Automation Tool streamlines online review management, specifically simplifying the process for the hospitality industry. It aims to improve online reputation management through automation.
Launching soon, Remarkly offers a seamless way to gather customer feedbacks for businesses without storing feedback information because your customers are yours.
Hi HN,I'm a new startup creator, and it's my first (small) startup I want to show you today.I had the idea looking at some articles about the importance of reviews for a business and this ended up to be Proofire.I Would love to hear from you about it.Alex
To get insights from a restaurant that has thousand of reviews is a daunting task. There might have advanced software that can do this but LLM approach is interesting. I believe the result given is pretty intuitive.
Users congratulated the team on the successful launch, praising the product as beautiful and helpful. There's excitement about the application and its problem-solving capabilities. Questions arose about applying the concept to tourist attractions and hotels, and the filtering of fake reviews. A request was made for a fake review detector feature and suggestions to test the model in varied scenarios to explore limits.
The primary criticism identified is a feature request for a fake review detector to be added to the product.
Collect, showcase, and engage customer reviews on your Shopify store. Everything’s done for you, from asking for reviews to showcase them, and interacting with reviews. No more lost social proof. Let ReviewXpo do the hard work while you focus on revenue!
ReviewXpo's Product Hunt launch garnered overwhelming congratulations and positive feedback. Users lauded its benefits for Shopify store owners, particularly its ability to streamline customer review management, automate responses, and offer a hands-off approach for business growth. Several users expressed excitement about the features and intent to try the tool. Questions arose regarding review imports from Amazon and user-friendliness. The product was repeatedly called a game-changer and essential tool for Shopify businesses.
The primary criticism suggests adding direct response functionality for reviewers to enhance engagement and interaction on the Product Hunt launch platform.
