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by chaz 4786 days ago
Your point of differentiation seems to be rating the scene of various venues. I would focus the landing page, app, and pitch on this, because at first pass, it looks like yet another startup that is trying to rate restaurants, stores, and parks. Having a screenshot with "New York City" and "Times Square" is not helpful (btw, note that it's Times Square and not Time Square). I would focus the locations down to just bars and clubs to start and take out anything else. No need rate Starbucks, either -- I already know what kind of place it is, globally.

You would have to talk to more people to get the right questions, but I don't think "how are the boys/girls?" is the right type of question. Is it hip, dive, relaxed, crowded, noisy, lively, chill, etc. I think the best way to think about this is to figure out how people would answer the question, "what kind of place is it?" I also think the response needs to be more than just a single 5-point rating.

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I think that you are absolutely right, even though we want to focus first on the 5-star rating of people and then we plan to offer a way to choose up to three pre-defined tags (as you rightly said hip, dive, etc.) to elaborate your rating of the place.

Sorry for the "Time Square" error, we use Foursquare venues and weren't paying attention, we will fix that.

We will also rethink our landing page in order to make it easier to understand what we do.

Thanks for the feedback ! :)