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Why do I need an account just to look at the reviews?
That's the first thing I would do, to see if the website was for real or not.
If I can't see them right now, I'm not going to make an account to find out.
Having an account to leave a review makes sense, of course.
Ok, I'm a landlord and I just made an account.
And I find that there aren't any reviews on the website. Zero.
Well, I'm not going to be the first one.
I guess this site isn't for real.
I'm out... never to return.
Anything content related like this, you're going to have to "seed" the content. You're going to need to put in hundreds of reviews, by whatever means necessary (including fake ones) in there to make it seem like people are really using this thing. Without reviews, I don't consider this website minimally viable. You need reviews on the home page too so people instantly "get it".
You've got a picture of a kitchen on the home page that doesn't seem to have anything to do with anything.
The home page has way too much text in a big block in super tiny font. The about us page is even worse.
What's the strategy for launching this? One city at a time? The whole country? If I live in Kansas City, MO, and I don't see a single review from Kansas City, MO... I'm out, because the website is not at all relevant for me.
But if you launch in Casper, Wyoming, and there are a thousand reviews from real or fake Casper landlords already on the site... I'm WAY more intrigued. Every damn landlord in Casper must be on this site, so I need to be too.
You say you've put hundreds of hours into this... hundreds of hours doing what exactly? What does "research and planning" mean?
Also, do you know if it's legal to call tenants out by name like this? If I had a bad tenant, I'd want to wash my hands and move on from them. I don't know that I'd want to post their name and what they did on a public website, so that they could trace it back to me and sue me for slander or something.
That's the first thing I would do, to see if the website was for real or not.
If I can't see them right now, I'm not going to make an account to find out.
Having an account to leave a review makes sense, of course.
Ok, I'm a landlord and I just made an account.
And I find that there aren't any reviews on the website. Zero.
Well, I'm not going to be the first one.
I guess this site isn't for real.
I'm out... never to return.
Anything content related like this, you're going to have to "seed" the content. You're going to need to put in hundreds of reviews, by whatever means necessary (including fake ones) in there to make it seem like people are really using this thing. Without reviews, I don't consider this website minimally viable. You need reviews on the home page too so people instantly "get it".
You've got a picture of a kitchen on the home page that doesn't seem to have anything to do with anything.
The home page has way too much text in a big block in super tiny font. The about us page is even worse.
What's the strategy for launching this? One city at a time? The whole country? If I live in Kansas City, MO, and I don't see a single review from Kansas City, MO... I'm out, because the website is not at all relevant for me.
But if you launch in Casper, Wyoming, and there are a thousand reviews from real or fake Casper landlords already on the site... I'm WAY more intrigued. Every damn landlord in Casper must be on this site, so I need to be too.
You say you've put hundreds of hours into this... hundreds of hours doing what exactly? What does "research and planning" mean?
Also, do you know if it's legal to call tenants out by name like this? If I had a bad tenant, I'd want to wash my hands and move on from them. I don't know that I'd want to post their name and what they did on a public website, so that they could trace it back to me and sue me for slander or something.
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