Applied to YC

I don't think you will convince them either. You're building on someone's else platform. They want you to build your own platform. Anytime you work with someone's platform, your business hinges on them not changing the rules. If you can make lots of money from WhatsApp integration, at some point, they might decide to offer that and cut out all the middlemen. Facebook, Twitter, Google and tons of other platform have repeatedly demonstrated these behaviors. For an indie hacker it's fine to sit on top of an eagle to soar high, but once you're taking VC money, you gotta be the eagle.

Good luck with your YC application.

I had a business in your target market, and work with several more. Here is some actionable feedback along 3 directives: landing page, product, sales.

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[1] Landing Page

a) Change your hero text

"More Google Reviews Means - More ________________"

Change this to be static:
"More google reviews means more customers"

Shop owners care most about sales and customers. Focus on what your end users want as the key benefit. Visibility is a distant second after customers, so you are decreasing the value of your message.

Get more positive Google reviews using our unique check-in feature. Manage your reviews & customers from one single dashboard.

Your users don't really care about this. They want more customers

I would write something like:
"Businesses that use foore get x% more customers in just x months. Setup takes 10 minutes."

If that isn't true, then your value proposition isn't enough. Sure, it's just $8/month, but it also takes my time. I only want to spend time to get more customers and to improve my current customer experience. So focus on those outcomes and make sure they are true -- that's how you will get product/market fit.

b) Don't show a picture of your dashboard.

That just tells me "more work" or "one more thing to manage/do".

Either show a list of customers currently using your service (social proof) or additional benefits that your customers get. Focus on per customer numbers that I can apply to my own business and would get me to take the next step.

C) Clarify your offering

After that, you can show exactly how the software works. I don't really understand how the software knows who my customer is, or how they activate them to get the review? What do you actually do?

What does it mean for my business specifically?

I would separate this by industry type. Who are your current customers? Which markets is your solution working best for? Focus on those industries, and show how your product works in those markets.

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[2] Product/Market Fit

Focus on your core activity and the job that the business owner is trying to do (get more customers). Google reviews are okay, but if you have this power to activate my customers to get them to do google reviews, can you get them to do other things too?

Key question : is the biggest value of an activated customer in writing a google review?

Generally as a SMB owner, I want to have one tool as my CMS. Unless you are that thing, I would not be interested. So I think you need to think again about how you fit into an overall tool-set for SMB owners and how to expand the value you provide for them.

Have you talked to your current customers about their needs?

• How are they using your service?
• what other services do they use?
• what they are doing manually right now?
• what do they wish they could do?

What do you know about your users that gives you a unique insight or point of view? How can you get that information from them?

Especially when I have multiple locations, I want to keep it easy for training, onboarding, and keep my staff working on the most important tasks. How does Foore fit into that? Does this just give me one more thing that I need to hound my employees about?

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[3] Sales

I would focus on targeting larger clients so that you have more social proof. Who is your largest client? What industry are they in?

Get more traction by focusing on getting a large keystone client in each industry, and then using that in your sales copy. All sales content should be focused by industry.

Focus on the benefits you provide for customers. Get the data to back up your hypothesis that more google reviews means more customers. Worki with customers that are willing to share their data with you so that you have clear numbers on the value you provide businesses.

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Good luck man, I applied to YC for my first time this batch!

Good luck. I applied for the first time this year

Good luck man!

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Good luck!

@mahoriR the best. Let us know how you go with your interview.

Good luck! Foore looks great and really useful!

What is required to apply/get interview apart being part of startup school?