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Show HN: Attract more customers by highlighting why people trust you
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#32We use Shoutout on our site — very happy with it!
How's that for meta social proof?
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#33Very 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…
I feel like people instinctively suggest to "raise your price" here because that's just what you're supposed to say nowadays. Yes, in most cases, a lot of people undervalue the value of their work, but as someone looking for this type of thing right now, I wouldn't pay more than $5/mo (or a $29 one time fee for something self-hosted). I just don't think adding tweets to my site is worth +$225/yr CAD in perpetuity.
OP should consider making a plugin for Shopify/Wix, etc. That would be more their target market anyway.
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#34Very clever - great idea and execution. Embedding positive tweets is something we've wanted to add to our site for a long time but it's so annoying/tedious to put together on your own, this it awesome. Thanks for creating and sharing!
Awesome to hear that. I'm so glad you loved the our idea and the product.
Would love to see a wall of love for Circles for Zoom. Btw big fan of what you are building!
Re: Show HN: Attract more customers by highlighting why people trust you
#35Very 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…
I feel like people instinctively suggest to "raise your price" here because that's just what you're supposed to say nowadays. Yes, in most cases, a lot of people undervalue the value of their work, but as someone looking for this type of thing right now, I wouldn't pay more than $5/mo (or a $29 one time fee for something self-hosted). I just don't think adding tweets to my site is worth +$225/yr CAD in perpetuity. OP…
I agree with you about everyone saying "raise your price" however, you can always move upmarket if you're B2B so I think pricing is generally dependent on your target market.
If OP is targeting solo operators (Effectively B2C), then I agree that the price seems exorbitant.
I see a lot of opportunity for this further upmarket though. I saw someone mention that this could be useful for agencies, and they do seem like an ideal customer. Funded startups seem like another ideal customer with more money in the bank.
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#36We're a paying customer and happily so. The product is slick, it works extremely well, and the cost is negligible compared to the value you get from it. For us @bemicrobrave (on Twitter) this was a no-brainer from the moment we saw it.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
These are not meant to be reviews. It's just social proof showing that other people like the product to build trust.
Since they're Tweets it's also theoretically organic, which is even better.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
We believe the same. In the age of information overload building credibility on the Internet is tough. That's why we are building Shoutout. It will dig the unbiased positive shoutouts and help creators, startups build credibility.
> It will dig the unbiased positive shoutouts If you filter for positive shoutouts only, the result becomes strongly biased by definition :).
This right here, this is what OP is failing to understand.
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#39Congrats on the launch, the product looks great!
How did you manage to show the local currencies in the pricing section? Are you using any library or third party service for that?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
We believe the same. In the age of information overload building credibility on the Internet is tough. That's why we are building Shoutout. It will dig the unbiased positive shoutouts and help creators, startups build credibility.
If it's just positive reviews on a website, i skip it as low information.
Tweet compilations actually decrease trust for me if they are on a website. Twitter sucks overall and bringing obviously filtered tweets is a turnoff.
As a consumer in both business and general, I want third parties who give unbiased reviews, covering multiple vendors / products which solve my problem. This is why genuine influencer marketing is doing well. I actually spend a fair amount of time on youtube looking at reviews and finding trustworthy sources there. They need to point out flaws and put some products down do gain that trust