Let's provide feedback to each other. Drop links below.

Hi Cannonball2134,

Some quick insights:

1. 60% get what you do. I think you're communicating a lot of stuff from due diligence, tech select, cost risk but it seems like the way to go would be to just hack together a quick MVP and see what feedback from real customers are first. It's light and easy.
2. You said this is your target market:

• Non technical entrepreneurs who need help selecting technology and want to understand costs.
• Technical entrepreneurs who want to save time, or don't have the necessary experience.
• Companies who want to outsource cost estimation
• Investors and VC's that want to validate cost estimates

I think the non tech entrepreneur would have some tech friends to ask or hustle to find them. The tech entrepreneur already knows how to do it. Not sure on companies and investors. More importantly, what has their feedback been? What has your customers said about it?

Bill

Hi @Cannonball2134 . Thank you for visiting our website.
We are still weighing some options on what are the best ways to get customers. Do you have some insights to share? It will greatly helps us. We have driven traffic on our website but now that we are obtaining feedback from people we realize that we are not directly getting the right target.

Here is my feedback to https://www.bigideas.guru

Have A New Product Idea? What does it cost to build and manufacture - I'm a bit confused of what is the value you want to give your customer. Is it the costing of the new product? Or is it advice if the idea is feasible? The first few lines are focusing on costing and the succeeding lines talk about feasibility of the idea. I think it doesn't flow accordingly. You should validate first your idea before doing the costing. If you are showing the costing first, it's like I already validated my idea and I just need to consult on how much would it cost me to build the product.

Product Cost Repot - you are mixing up costing with feasibility. They are two separate things. Costing is how much money do I need to build the product whether it's feasible or not. Feasibility is determining if the idea can be built conveniently and if there's a market for such idea.

Why is this important? - you are discussing about cashflow but product cost report will not really explain my cashflow. It is just a budget. Maybe you could rephrase it like if you have the right estimate it help you plan accordingly the disbursement of cash while matching it with your cash inflows.

Since you are offering a consulting service, I think it is important to give the background of the experts who are behind the research. Consultancy service requires a lot of expertise and a lot of trust. You may also include the model/approach on how you do the feasibility study. You can check technavio.com. I think they have similar service with yours.

Hope these help. :-) Good luck to your startup!

Hi Neilc891,

Some quick insights:

1. I get what you're building. Online presence for locals businesses in Galway. Cool.
2. The website allows businesses to post a listing with social but a few I looked at doesn't have covid times (times open during covid). Is this something your working to add soon?
3. How do you guys drive locals to this website? I understand that businesses have an incentive to go and list but how do you push consumers there to go see?

Bill

Thank you so much @Neilc891 for the very detailed points. I highly appreciate!
Here's my feedback to your website:

I'm actually impressed with the website. It's very appealing and lively.
However, since I'm not from Galway, first thought that came to my mind is why Galway? Is it trying to say that you can post if you are a shop or a restaurant or related to fashion maybe. I was making some guesses based on the photos.

Since I want to know more, I went to the About Us Page.
So I figured out that the website was made because of Covid-19 pandemic. This impacted me, you are connecting to people on a deeper level. The fact that you are showing your photos and stating your thoughts, it's like you are talking to me on a personal level. I might do the same to my website :-)

I understand now that the website was made for business owners in Galway (which is a place). I think this is a good thing that you are very specific as to who is your market.

Below are some points:

When going to the featured shops, the images on the right are not related to the shop. I'm expecting that you will showcase there the shop's photos or even make online delivery in there. We have similar one stop shop here in my location which was made also because of the pandemic wherein you can make online delivery.

Since you have a growing directory of shops, I think putting a search engine button will enhance user experience. We all have our favorite shop that we check first if available before browsing for other options.

Hope these help. :-) Thank you again.

Hi Bill, thanks for your feedback.

My Feedback on Berlocks.com:

• Why Berlocks.com? That is an odd name.
• Accountability is great, it pushes you to keep on going, but would you pay someone to keep you accountable? I personally wouldn't. I think you are in a similar situation to me, part of what you offer can be found for free, but often is difficult to do or requires specialist knowledge, so are people willing to pay to accelerate their progress or get a detailed and focused solution? I would say some are, but it's difficult to find these people without a lot of website traffic or advertising.
• You are competing with coaching and advice services, but also places like indiehackers that does in a small way keep you accountable. Overall, a nice idea, it's a difficult market, but maybe worth combining it with some other offering (what offering, i don't know).

Hi Bill, Thank you for visiting our website and for the feedback.
It's cool that you understood that we are a development team as a service. We had some difficulty explaining this to our prospects and has to keep iterating it since the norm is developing on per project basis.

On your 2nd question, we have a project manager for each team so the customer has to speak only to the project manager. We also have an online platform where the customers can login and see the progress report. It's a dashboard wherein you can see your team members, the tasks to complete the project, the number of hours allocated for each task and how many hours have been incurred to date.

On the third, the $1,699 is actually low cost. You are having a team and not just one developer for just $1,699. You will save a lot of time in building a team and managing it. The cost of building a team on your own is much higher specially if you're a non-tech founder. We focus on startup companies who have experienced those pain points.

Thank you again :-)

Hi Adamdaha,

Some quick insights:

1. 10% understand what you do. How does belongery allow you to share moments of belonging personally or professionally? What is a moment of belonging? A 30 sec clip petting your dog?
2. You said 'Create content and get in touch with the people you love'. What medium is it in? Video, Audio, Written. What content do you want people to produce? How do they share with their love ones?
3. Product pics would help to understand what this is more.

Bill

Thank you @adamdaha .. Good to hear that you like our website. Although we still have a lot to work on.

Here's my feedback to Belongery.com

I think you are at early stage of developing your landing page?
When scrolling down, it is a bit slow. So I'm thinking if you will drive a lot of traffic on your website this could be a problem in the future.
I understand that this is a social platform to build community. However, what is the unique feature that will differentiate your platform to others?
I like the tagline but the background doesn't resonates. I'm expecting more on a lively one.

Hope these help. Good luck to your startup! :-)

Hi Rrttalv,

Some quick insights:

1. I get what you do, and clear communication.
2. Curious why this space? I know of a few other companies doing social proof notifications on website to drive conversations now. What's the problem with those? What do you know that they don't?
3. Nice to see you have pricing plans too. Do you have paid customers already? What's their feedback been like?

Hope this helps.

Bill

Hi @rrttalv Thank you for visiting our website and providing feedback.
I have checked yours and here are some of my points:
There are words/phrases that seem to be jargons for me and some parts that are a bit confusing

upsell and cross-sell - the description is a bit vague for me or if the description really defines upselling and cross selling
stream actions - at first I didn't understand what you mean but when I looked at the photo, I had an idea what you want to tell which is to put a sense of urgency by saying that the products are in demand and are scarce.
FOMO- your customers might not know what FOMO means
Want specific use cases? - I think this phrase doesn't really convey what you want to say. Although I like the samples you presented. Maybe you just need to rephrase the headline

In general, I like the photos you are showing in the page as it helped me to understand what you are trying to say. There are instances that I directly read the description but I have to check the photos for me to understand. Maybe because I'm visiting the site as a reviewer and not as a customer. But I guess if you'll check the photo first then read the description, the flow of information is better.

Hope these help.