We implemented a demo of our app!
My Takeouts provides online ordering for restaurants without having developers personally build one for them, it's all hosted on the website.
Previously, an account and subscription are required to create a restaurant. We removed those constraint and just allow anybody to create demo restaurants.
We are looking for feedback on the app. Go to https://mytakeouts.com/restaurant-owners and click the try it now button and let us know what you think!
Hi @@rogerchin,
I am a fan of your concept. Mytakeouts seems like an excellent way to help restaurants during this difficult time.
Roger, are you still looking to attract users to give you feedback?
Since I don't work at a restaurant, I don't think I personally am the right person to give feedback, but I can help you find the right people.
I created a product, SplashPad, that helps you write emails to attract customers and people to provide feedback. The product provides pre-written messages for you to email to your audience (or post on Indie Hackers). Those messages use writing techniques that have been proven to get responses in top-performing user outreach campaign.
@@rogerchin, I would love to hear your thoughts: https://getsplashpad.com.
Do you think this sounds totally off-target?
Keep up the great work,
Ryan
P.S. I wrote this post with the help of SplashPad -- so you can get a sense of what the result looks like.
Hi @ryanh1. I actually have something like this of my own in a text editor and have it categorized just like yours. Each sentence in a category is in its own line and each categories are separated by a blank line and I just copy and paste the lines I want to construct my email. But awesome project. Keep up the good work and good luck!
Hi Roger,
Wow, that's fascinating that you keep a list of sentences in different categories in order to construct an email. That's a lot of dedication to your writing.
Roger, would you be open to a quick call so that I can learn more about your process? I would be happy to give you a free trial to SplashPad, but my goal really isn't to sell you on the product. I would just like to learn more about your process -- such as what steps you take when writing letters, how you categorize your saved sentences, etc.
Feel free to find any time that works for you: https://calendly.com/splashpad/15min.
-Ryan
That wouldn't be necessary as I can explain the whole process to you here. It's really simple. In Word editor, I have a group of sentences for what I call intro (reason for email) along the lines of "I noticed your website doesn't have soandso", or "I noticed you are using soandso".
Then, I would skip a blank line and have another group of sentences for description of my service.
Again, skip a blank line, group of sentences for why it is better than the recipients current choice.
Then my offer statement and closing statement, not many choices here as they all seem to the same.
They're grouped in this order and I just choose the ones that fit best for the recipient.
The process is exactly like your SplashPad, but instead of clicking on a sentence to build an email I just copy and paste. In the end, you just end up with an email.
Very helpful. Thanks for sharing @rogerchin. Have you noticed an improvement in your responses from that process? Also, I'm curious, how did you decide to do that. It can take a lot of effort to curate quality writing, and many people don't do it.
Can't really measure improvement in using this technique because the email generally is the same as if I typed it all out. It doesn't increase/decrease the quality of the email, just makes the process faster.
It started when I repetitively wrote somewhat similar emails. As a programmer, we follow a DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle and so it didn't take long for me to catch up.
That's great insight. Thanks for sharing @@rogerchin
This is a great idea! This surely eases the friction of getting started using your product.
Having to get verified kind of defeats the purpose of the 'try it now' action, it doesn't feel like a 'demo' to me. A demo would be like a dummy restaurant account where a potential restaurant owner could browse the dashboard and see what's offered.
I actually recently added a demo to my product: https://jobhuntbuddy.co/
Oh, did you ran into a feature in the demo that restricted you from using because you were unverified?