Interesting. How do you guys filter out not so nice @ mentions? Is it a manual process?
Show HN: Attract more customers by highlighting why people trust you
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#12Am I understanding right that this is just a testimonials feature with the limitation that it only shows tweets? If so, I don't understand why one would pay $15/month for this when you can just embed tweets in any html page or CMS for free.
There are many reasons why people are paying for it:
1. Save time - We find the best shoutouts for you so you don't have to search them in bookmarks and find them. 2. Design beautiful walls - We are offering design layouts(grid view, carousel view) with custom settings like changing colors, dark mode etc. 3. Zero maintenance - Once you setup an embed on your website you are done. All you need to do is add shoutouts to your wall and the embed automatically reloads with news shoutouts. 4. Ultra-fast embeds - Our embeds load ridiculously faster than Twitter embeds. 5. We are not just limiting ourselves to Twitter but will expand it other platforms. So we are here to monopolize the social proof niche.
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#13Interesting. How do you guys filter out not so nice @ mentions? Is it a manual process?
Thanks for checking us out.
We have build an algorithm that curates the high-signal mentions and we suggest them to you.
We have a mechanism in place to avoid the low-niosy tweets.
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#14So, selective reviews?
Can you be more little more specific?
The tweets we suggest are high-signal and we believe it will help your product, newsletter or whatever you are selling.
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#15Am I understanding right that this is just a testimonials feature with the limitation that it only shows tweets? If so, I don't understand why one would pay $15/month for this when you can just embed tweets in any html page or CMS for free.
Also, you can't just pull tweets from the web and show them as testimonials. You will need to ask the sender for permission. (I would personally hate it if my tweets were pulled out of context and used like this for commercial purposes, without my consent.)
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#16So, selective reviews?
Can you be more little more specific? The tweets we suggest are high-signal and we believe it will help your product, newsletter or whatever you are selling.
I believe they mean something like... you're filtering for only positive reviews (best for your customers) rather than unbiased perspectives (so that humans are best served by unfiltered truth)
So the company is able to "lie" to potential customers.
How companies manipulate Glassdoor is an interesting case study
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#17Very interesting product, congratulations on the launch! Some initial feedback/suggestions: 1) Raise pricing, especially on the $15 plan. 2) The $50 plan looks like something agencies will pick up for their clients. So get ahead of that and charge more for that. Limit to N walls per domain or something. Then add agency plans that scale by # of domains where walls are posted. Agency plans probably should start at $99…
+1 on raising the Pro price.
I’d also reconsider the ability to publish a wall from the Free plan — you can get a hell of a lot of value out of this product with a single wall, and pay nothing in return.
Two alternate approaches could be:
1) Give away less value. Generate the wall for a proof of concept, but keep it in draft until payment hits.
2) Get something in return. Badge the free wall with a Shoutout link/logo/“what’s this?” that can be removed by paying.
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#18Am I understanding right that this is just a testimonials feature with the limitation that it only shows tweets? If so, I don't understand why one would pay $15/month for this when you can just embed tweets in any html page or CMS for free.
Also, you can't just pull tweets from the web and show them as testimonials. You will need to ask the sender for permission. (I would personally hate it if my tweets were pulled out of context and used like this for commercial purposes, without my consent.)
But does Shoutout ask the OP for permission to display the tweet? I've never heard this "you can't just pull tweets from the web.." twitter provides the embed capability, and doesn't mention anything in their terms (from what I can find) about asking for OP permission.
This strikes me as something that took longer to build as a service, than it would take an individual to build for their own app.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you be more little more specific? The tweets we suggest are high-signal and we believe it will help your product, newsletter or whatever you are selling.
I believe they mean something like... you're filtering for only positive reviews (best for your customers) rather than unbiased perspectives (so that humans are best served by unfiltered truth) So the company is able to "lie" to potential customers. How companies manipulate Glassdoor is an interesting case study
True. Our algorithm decides which ones are the best shoutouts you can use and we suggest it to you.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe they mean something like... you're filtering for only positive reviews (best for your customers) rather than unbiased perspectives (so that humans are best served by unfiltered truth) So the company is able to "lie" to potential customers. How companies manipulate Glassdoor is an interesting case study
True. Our algorithm decides which ones are the best shoutouts you can use and we suggest it to you.
My hunch is most of society wants trusted and unbiased reviews rather than filtering or manipulation.
I doubt there is more money in that direction though