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u/optimotor 1d ago
- Company Name: Optimotor
- URL: https://optimotor.co/
- Purpose of Startup and Product: I built a car research site that shows the true cost of owning a car, not just the sticker price. You can compare cars side by side with estimated fuel and maintenance costs next to the purchase price, and search by make, model, budget and location.
- Technologies Used: Next.js, React, MUI, NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Clerk, Stripe
- Feedback Requested: When you compare two cars, are the running-cost estimates something you'd actually use to decide? Anything unclear or missing on the comparison page?
- Seeking Beta-Testers: no
- Additional Comments: Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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u/lmfresneda 23h ago
I signed up to try the comparison and couldn't find it. I guessed it was by saving cars, saved three, hit the "3 of 3 saved cars" limit, and still no compare button anywhere. Since that's the part you asked about, I'd make it impossible to miss: a "compare" next to "save", or a compare view that opens as soon as you have two saved.
What I could see was each car on its own. The maintenance number looks off. For a 2025 Corolla it says $1,205 a year, and that's exactly the sum of the six items: oil change, a set of tires, battery, air filter, brake pads and rotors. So it's counting new tires, a battery and rotors every single year, and the 5-year total is just that times 5. Tires and a battery are every 3 to 5 years, while oil is more than once a year. Spread each item over its real interval and the number gets a lot more believable.
Fuel didn't work for me at all. "Fuel analysis is temporarily unavailable" with an address outside the US and also with one in Austin, right under a line that says the monthly number is "a real one, not a guess". If it's down, I'd say that before people enter an address.
Smaller stuff: the search page says "free to use, no upsells" while the pricing page has a $9.99 plan and 3 analyses a month on free, and someone who reads the first will feel tricked by the second. A 15 character minimum password is a lot for a site where you save cars, and some people will drop off right there. And insurance is left out, which for many people is what changes most between two cars.
My entry is in this thread if you want to return the favour
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u/optimotor 20h ago
Thank you for going this deep, and for signing up to try it. I built Optimotor, and you're right on the main point: there is no compare view yet, only each car on its own, so I should not have described it that way in my post. The yearly maintenance total, the fuel error and the "free" line on the search page versus the paid plan are all fair points that I'll look into.
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u/lmfresneda 19h ago
Makes sense, thanks for saying it straight. Even before a full compare view, two saved cars side by side with just the monthly total would answer the question most people come with
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u/New-Cake8743 19h ago
Took a look. The headline works: "true cost behind your next car" says it right away. Lower down it gets generic ("Less guesswork. More forward motion.") and I didn't see a single number until I clicked in. I'd put one real comparison on the landing page, two cars with a 5-year total, so people see the point before they browse.
On your question: running-cost estimates are only as useful as the assumptions behind them. If I can set my own yearly mileage and fuel price and see the total change, I'd trust it and use it to decide. If they're fixed, I'd treat them as rough.
If you have a minute, I'd appreciate your take on my Skyplanr entry further down.
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u/lmfresneda 23h ago
Company Name: HAGGIN
URL: hagg.in
Purpose of Startup and Product: A link for SaaS customers who are about to leave: the trial that ended, the cancel button, the "too expensive" email. Instead of going, they make you an offer (a lower price, a year upfront, a testimonial, an intro or something else) and you accept, counter or pass. Your list price doesn't change for anyone else
Technologies Used: Next.js, Postgres (Supabase), Stripe for our own billing, Resend for email, PostHog
Feedback Requested: Five weeks live, 16 companies signed up and 8 founders have a page up. The only deal so far is on my own page. This week none of the pages got a single visit, and I think it's because most of those founders are as new as I am, so very few customers leave them in the first place. So now I'm talking to founders who already have paying customers. One of them runs a churn tool and plugged it in: when someone cancels because of price, it creates a page just for that person. So:
- If you have paying customers, where do you lose the most of them, and what do they say when they go?
- For Black Friday, would you let customers make you an offer for a week instead of giving everyone the same % off? What would worry you about it?
- Reading the homepage, is it clear in 10 seconds who it's for?
Seeking Beta-Testers: Yes. Pro free for 60 days, and I'll set up your page for you if you want
Additional Comments: Blunt is fine. A "this makes no sense for my product" teaches me more than a like
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u/optimotor 19h ago
Thanks for the detailed review of mine, so here's mine on HAGGIN. I can't speak to your first two questions, so this is only the third: is it clear in 10 seconds who it's for?
Yes. "Before they leave, ask what they'd pay" and the "For SaaS companies" label say it straight away, and the Acme and Ines example makes the flow easy to follow.
What slowed me down:
- "Your list price never moves" and "Not a discount tool" sit next to "You were going to discount anyway", which blurs what it is.
- "Negotiation layer" and the "independent certificate" from NexArt are not explained for a first-time reader.
- Business ($99) is only a line under Pro, with no features listed.
- I tried "Paste your pricing page, free" with my pricing page and it said it found no plan with a fixed price. Pasting the prices as text then gave "We couldn't read that page", which is confusing when you've pasted text, not a page.
Good luck talking to the founders who already have paying customers.
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u/lmfresneda 18h ago
Thanks, this is really useful, especially the price reader. I looked at what happened: your plans load in the browser after the page opens, and my reader doesn't run JavaScript, so it saw your FAQ but none of the prices. The message should have said that instead of "no plan with a fixed price". And an error about "that page" after you pasted text is just a wrong message. Both are on my list.
You're right that those three lines fight each other. What I mean is that the price on your pricing page stays the same for everyone, and the discount you'd give someone who's about to leave becomes an offer they make you. The page clearly doesn't say it that way yet.
Noted on "negotiation layer", NexArt and Business too
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u/New-Cake8743 15h ago
Returning the favour.
Yes, it's clear in about 10 seconds: a make-an-offer link for customers who are about to leave. "Before they leave, ask what they'd pay" does the job. The animated example of a customer cancelling helped more than the use-case list.
I'm early too, so I don't have churn data, but the objection I hear from drone pilots is price against a one-time tool they already own. That's a comparison problem rather than a "too expensive right now" problem, and I'm not sure an offer link fixes it. It might be worth saying on the page which kind of "too expensive" HAGGIN is for.
For Black Friday I'd worry that people who'd pay full price learn they can name a lower one, and that it gets around. A cap, like offers only within a range or only for customers who are actually cancelling, would make me more comfortable trying it.
Your own read in the post sounds right to me: founders with paying customers are the market, so the churn-tool integration is probably the right channel.
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u/lmfresneda 14h ago
Thanks, that's useful, and good to hear the cancel example does more than the list.
On the comparison problem, I think an offer can help there too, because the price isn't the only thing they can change. A pilot comparing you to a one-time tool can offer a one-time price, or a year upfront, and you decide if that works for you. But you're right that the page doesn't say which "too expensive" it's for.
On Black Friday, the "only customers who are actually cancelling" version already exists. A Haggin can be private and tied to one person, and a churn tool already creates one for each customer who cancels over price. The public one for Haggin Week is closer to a sale that's already announced, with an end date. On a cap, I've kept it out on purpose so far. A low offer costs you one click to reject, and it still tells you what people would pay
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u/New-Cake8743 10h ago
Good point about the one-time price. I'd rather show that clearly on the page than make people ask. Thanks for the back and forth, it was useful.
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u/Gleb_SV 21h ago
Noema - noemacreate.org
3 short interactive lessons a day from different fields, picked for you. it learns from what you finish, skip and rate.
Stage: live, paid plan just launched, 1 paying user
What I need: does the landing explain it in 5 seconds? and is this a “would pay” or a “nice, but no” thing
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u/lmfresneda 20h ago
The hero worked for me. "Understand one new thing a day" plus hands-on lessons from physics to history, and I got it in about 5 seconds.
What I couldn't find from the home is the price. There's no link to the pricing page in the menu or the footer, and for something you're asking people to pay for, I'd want to see it before I answer fifteen questions.
When I did see it, it didn't match the home. The home says three new ideas every day, and Plus is 20 Experiences a month. If I do one a day like the headline suggests, I run out around day 20. I'd either make the plan match the promise or change the headline to something the plan covers. Also the home calls them lessons and the pricing calls them Experiences, and it took me a second to see they're the same thing.
On would pay vs nice but no: one free lesson is a small sample to decide on $14.99 a month. What you're selling is that the picks get better from what I finish, skip and rate, and I can't feel that after one. I'd give three free so the second day's ideas already show it learned something.
My entry is in this thread if you want to return the favour
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u/Gleb_SV 20h ago
Great feedback and very detailed, too. Thanks for your reply. That gives me something to think about!
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u/lmfresneda 19h ago
Glad it helps. I'd talk to your 1 paying user before changing anything. Ask them how many lessons they did before paying, that tells you how many to give for free
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u/New-Cake8743 19h ago
5-second test: "Understand one new thing a day" is clear, and three ideas a day with one random pick is a nice hook. "Built for you by a team of agents" didn't add much for me as a user. Showing one finished lesson above the fold (a screenshot or a 10-second clip of a simulation) would sell it faster than the explanation.
Would pay vs nice but no: as it reads now, nice but no, mostly because I can't see what the paid plan adds over free. If paid means longer or more lessons, or a streak and a learning path, say that next to the price.
If you get a chance, I'd appreciate feedback on my Skyplanr entry in this thread too.
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u/PifteauVemlan 20h ago
one thing that helps, be upfront about who your target user is. hard to evaluate a landing page or onboarding flow without knowing who its actually for
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u/New-Cake8743 19h ago
Company Name: Skyplanr
URL: https://skyplanr.com
Purpose of Startup and Product: Flight planning for drone pilots who shoot real estate and small sites. You pick a property or an area on a map, and an AI agent plans the waypoints around the real terrain, building heights and tree heights. It also checks airspace, weather and light. At the end you get a KMZ file that DJI Fly opens, and the drone flies the plan by itself. The point is that you check a plan instead of drawing one waypoint by waypoint.
Technologies Used: Next.js and Mapbox GL on the web, Supabase, an AI agent built on Claude with its own planning tools, and a native iPhone app. Heights come from national laser scans in Norway, USGS 3DEP lidar in the US, and Overture/Google Open Buildings plus Meta canopy height data elsewhere. Exports to DJI Fly, DJI Pilot 2, Litchi, Google Earth and a few others.
Feedback Requested: You don't need to fly a drone for any of these.
Landing page. In the first five seconds, do you get that you pick a property, the AI plans the flight using real terrain, buildings and trees, and you get a file the DJI app opens? If not, where did you lose it? A pilot on r/dji also said the site looks dark and like AI made it. I'd like to know if founders see the same thing.
Pricing. Free is 3 AI plans a month. Pilot is €49/month (or €490/year) for 10, and you can also buy single plans for €7 each, all + VAT. Pilots compared it to Litchi, which is about £20 one time, but there you draw the waypoints yourself. For a niche professional tool, which of these would you lead with, or is the monthly price simply too high?
Category. Does "AI mission planner" mean anything to you, or should I just call it a drone shot planner for real estate?
Seeking Beta-Testers: Yes. If you or someone on your team flies a DJI drone (Mini 4 Pro or newer, Air 3/3S, Mavic 3 Pro or 4 Pro), I'd be grateful if you planned and flew one mission with the iPhone beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5vBDU3Ah
Additional Comments: I'm the solo developer, and I'm also a real-estate drone pilot in Norway flying an Air 3S, so I use it on my own jobs. What's still rough: outside Norway and the US the building and tree data is coarser, so some heights there are estimates and you should still check the site before flying. The iPhone app is still in TestFlight. I'll go through a few other entries in this thread today and leave proper feedback.
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u/lmfresneda 18h ago
In the first 5 seconds I got "plans DJI waypoint missions and checks heights". I didn't get real estate at all. The hero says describe the job, the picture is a mapping grid, and real estate only shows up further down as one of five kinds of job, next to inspection, mapping, cinematic and FPV. If real estate pilots are who you're for, I'd put it in the headline. That also answers your category question: "drone shot planner for real estate" says a lot more to me than "AI mission planner".
On looking AI-made, I see what the r/dji pilot means. A small label on top, a serif headline with the second line in italics, three stats underneath, line drawings. A lot of sites built with AI look like that right now. You have something those sites don't: you fly real estate jobs yourself. A short clip of one of your own flights over a real house, next to the plan it came from, would take away the AI feel and explain the product better than the drawing.
Pricing: I did the maths and I can't see who Pilot is for. On Free with single plans at €7, 10 jobs a month cost 3 free plus 7 × €7 = €49, the same as Pilot. Above that, credits are cheaper or the same (13 jobs is €60 on Free with a 10 pack, €70 on Pilot). Only yearly Pilot comes out ahead, and only around 10 to 12 jobs a month. So I'd lead with pay per plan. €7 against what you charge for a real estate shoot is easy to say yes to, and it's a much easier comparison with Litchi's one-time price than €49 a month.
My entry is in this thread if you want to return the favour
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u/New-Cake8743 15h ago
Thank you, this is really useful, and you went further than I asked. Putting real estate in the headline makes sense, and "drone shot planner for real estate" is clearer than what I have. The clip idea is a good one too: one of my own flights next to the plan it came from would show the product better than any drawing. Your pricing maths is fair as well. I'm looking at it.
I'll leave some feedback on HAGGIN below.
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u/lmfresneda 14h ago
Glad it helps, and thanks in advance. One thing that would settle the pricing question: how many real estate jobs does a busy pilot do in a month, you included? If it's under 10, pay per plan is the main offer
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u/New-Cake8743 12h ago
Honestly, it varies a lot. Some months it's a handful, busy months a lot more, so I don't have one number that settles it. That's partly why I've just changed the pricing, it goes live tonight: €3 per plan, packs a bit cheaper, and Pilot drops to €24 for 10 a month. Free stays at 3 a month.
What I'm really trying to do is find a price that doesn't lose money. Each plan runs on Claude (Opus for the heavier jobs) and pulls terrain, building, tree and airspace data for the spot, so one plan costs me roughly €1 to €2 to make. €3 per plan is about as low as I can go and still cover that.
Thanks for pushing on this, it helped.
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u/lmfresneda 11h ago
Free at 3 a month is the part I'd look at with those costs. A free user who uses all 3 costs you €3 to €6 a month, and on a heavy month a Pilot user leaves you about €4 after costs (€24 minus 10 × €2).
I'd also sell the €3 plans in packs, not one at a time. Card fees on a single €3 charge take a good bite of the €1 to €2 you keep.
And I wouldn't let cost set the price. A real estate shoot pays the pilot a lot more than €3, so I'd guess most of them wouldn't notice €5
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u/socleads 17h ago
Company Name: SocLeads
Purpose of Startup and Product: Helps founders, agencies, and sales teams find fresh B2B leads from Google Maps, social platforms. There’s also a free email validator for cleaning lists before outreach.
Technologies Used: Web scraping, data processing, email validation, automation.
Feedback Requested: Mainly looking for feedback on positioning and the landing page. Is it obvious within a few seconds why you’d use this instead of a traditional lead database like Apollo?
Seeking Beta-Testers: No
Additional Comments: Facebook group scraping is the newest feature, so I’d especially like feedback on whether that use case stands out enough. Happy to return feedback on other products here too.
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u/pouria3 16h ago
- Company Name: u-wellness
- URL: app.u-wellness.com/weightloss
- Purpose of Startup and Product: physician-led weight-loss care, $249/mo, labs + check-ins included
- Technologies Used: web app, AI check-ins, physician review
- Feedback Requested: would you pay? If not, is it price, trust or something else?
- Seeking Beta-Testers: no
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u/OkStatistician9190 16h ago
Company Name: GanttMaster
URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6745624000
Purpose of Startup and Product: A project manager for iPhone and iPad, built for people who run projects on the go. It has tasks and subtasks, a Gantt timeline with Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start and Finish-to-Finish dependencies, milestones, a Today view with reminders, and team assignment with comments. The latest version adds risk and budget tracking. There's no per-seat pricing, so invited team members join free.
Technologies Used: React Native, backend on AWS
Feedback Requested: Do risk and budget tracking belong in a mobile planner, or do they make it feel heavier? For small teams, does "invited members join free" come across clearly as a reason to switch from per-seat tools? What would you expect to see first when you open a project on your phone: the Gantt, the Today view, or something else?
Seeking Beta-Testers: No
Additional Comments: Free download with a 1-week free trial, then $5.99/mo or $34.99/yr. We built it and we read every reply.
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u/Miserable-Carpet7928 15h ago
Company Name: Offload
URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/offload-adhd-organizer/id6772392111
Purpose of Startup and Product: Offload is an iPhone voice organizer for the step before a normal to-do list. You can say or type one messy brain dump, it uses AI to separate tasks, appointments and notes, and you review everything before sending tasks to Apple Reminders or events to Apple Calendar. Notes stay inside Offload.
Technologies Used: iOS, Apple EventKit for Reminders and Calendar, and the Anthropic API for sorting the dump.
Feedback Requested: I want to know whether the review step makes the handoff feel clear and trustworthy. After one mixed brain dump, is it obvious what will become a reminder, what will become a calendar event, and what will stay as a note? Is there anything you would need to change before tapping send?
Seeking Beta-Testers: no
Additional Comments: I built it as a solo developer alongside a full-time job. There is no account or login. The free download includes two brain dumps, with an optional premium unlock for unlimited dumps. I will also give feedback to other products in this thread.
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u/kaosthecreator_ 13h ago edited 13h ago
Company Name: orb44
Purpose of Startup and Product: An agentless, passive external vulnerability scanner. It looks at a company's server exactly how an automated bot or an enterprise security team does during due diligence. No credentials, agents, or payloads needed. It specifically flags high-severity hygiene gaps like Origin IP leaks (Cloudflare bypasses) and exposed AI infrastructure (e.g., unauthenticated Langfuse or MCP endpoints) that can lead to IP theft or lost B2B deals.
Technologies Used: Cursor, Slack, Resend, Next JS.
Feedback Requested: Feedback Requested: I am looking for feedback on the product's usability and the UX of our security reports. If you run a scan on your site, is the dashboard intuitive? As a founder, does the report clearly explain the actual business risk (like how an exposed endpoint might kill a deal) without overwhelming you with dry DevOps jargon? I want to make sure our interface perfectly bridges the gap between complex security data and clear, actionable steps for entrepreneurs.
Seeking Beta-Testers: Yes. If any founder wants to see what their perimeter looks like, I'd love to run a free external snapshot for you to test the engine.
Additional Comments: I am more than happy to return the favor! Drop your link below, and I can either review your landing page copy/marketing positioning or run a quick passive security check on your domain.
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u/lmfresneda 12h ago
I ran the free look on our domain. I didn't sign up, so nothing on the dashboard from me.
The first card said "No shield in DNS, traffic hits the server directly" and "Scans and exploits could hit the live IP". We're on Vercel, so every request goes through their edge and there's no server of ours behind it to hit. It was the scariest line on the page and it wasn't true for us. Anyone on Vercel, Netlify or similar will get the same, so I'd detect them and say the host already covers it.
The lookalike names were
hagg.comandhagg.netwith a date each (Oct 22 and 23) and no label. They're in the future so I guess they're expiry dates, but I read them as issue dates first. I also couldn't tell if they're clones or just whoever has ownedhagg.comfor years. When each domain was registered would answer that.On business risk: your post here talks about founders, B2B deals and due diligence, but the site talks to shop owners. Storefront, checkout, WooCommerce, shop.example.com, and my snapshot said visitors would see a red warning "not your storefront". Langfuse isn't on the home at all. If founders selling to companies are who you want, I'd put the lost deal on the home, because right now I only find it in this post.
Small thing: the hero says 3,095 threats found and the shield block further down says 0 shield checks and ~0%. Next to each other it looks like the counter is broken.
My entry is in this thread if you want to return the favour
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u/ajfrusciante 11h ago
Company Name: Slean
URL: https://slean.app
Purpose of Startup and Product: photo cleaner for iphone and android. The main idea is simple: Slean shows the file size on every thumbnail and lets you sort the library biggest first, so large videos and other space-heavy files don't stay buried in the grid. It also groups duplicates and similar shots, filters screenshots, and has photo/video compression with a before/after preview. everything runs on-device, no account, no ads. The App Store privacy label is "data not collected".
Technologies Used: ios and android apps, with photo processing happening on-device rather than uploading the library somewhere.
Feedback Requested:
does "see the biggest files first" feel like a strong enough reason to choose Slean over other photo cleaners?
does the landing page make the on-device / no account positioning obvious quickly enough?
I started building it in 2024 and launched in 2025. if you were trying to turn occasional organic installs into something more consistent, what channel would you test next?
Seeking Beta-Testers: no
Additional Comments: solo dev, happy to answer anything about how it works.
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u/inktab642 10h ago
Company Name: Kynso
URL: kynso.ai
Purpose of Startup and Product: We're a holistic fitness app that brings strength, nutrition, mobility, and cardio together since the body acts as a single connected system.
Technologies Used: React, Figma, Claude, and Gemini.
Feedback Requested: I'd love some fresh eyes on our landing page. Is it immediately clear what we actually do and why our approach is different?
Seeking Beta-Testers: Yes, for the app itself (testers get their first year free).
Additional Comments: I'm happy to return the favor and review your landing pages too
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u/Diligent_System_6100 2h ago
Company Name: Meet Anvi
Purpose of Startup and Product:
Meet Anvi is an ad-free learning app for children ages 3–6. It helps kids learn through interactive activities including alphabet learning, phonics, tracing, counting, matching, drawing, and stories, while giving parents progress tracking and parental controls.
Technologies Used:
Swift, SwiftUI, iOS, Apple frameworks, and a web platform for the parent experience.
Feedback Requested:
I’m particularly looking for feedback on the landing page and overall product positioning.
- Is it immediately clear what Meet Anvi does?
- Does the website communicate enough value to parents?
- What would make you more likely to download the app?
- Is there anything confusing or missing from the onboarding/landing page?
Seeking Beta-Testers: Yes, for Android version
Additional Comments:
We’re preparing for our next stage of growth and I’d really appreciate honest, constructive feedback. Happy to return the favor and give feedback on other products in this thread as well.
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u/Infamous_Republic539 15h ago
Company Name: Global Tools Platform
URL: https://globaltoolsplatform.com
Purpose of Startup and Product: Free browser tools (PDF, image, text, QR, dev stuff) plus a POS app for small shops, P2P file sharing and 1:1 video calls. Nothing gets uploaded, everything runs on your device. No sign up needed.
Technologies Used: Laravel, JavaScript, PWA, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare
Feedback Requested: Two things mainly:
The POS is the newest part. If you open it on your phone, does it make sense right away? Anything confusing or missing?
What's one small task you keep googling a tool for? I'll probably build it next.
Seeking Beta-Testers: No
Additional Comments: Happy to return the favor, drop your link and I'll actually try your product and leave real feedback.