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Hello HN-- I wanted to share what my Co-Founder and I have been working on. We built Yardbook to provide small landscape businesses with software tools to hel

by bgamido 11y ago

Hello HN-- I wanted to share what my Co-Founder and I have been working on. We built Yardbook to provide small landscape businesses with software tools to help them run their businesses. We have features for customer management, scheduling, billing just to name a few. Check it out at: https://www.yardbook.com/pages/home https://www.yardbook.com/pages/home It’s a humble start but I’d love to get your thoughts and feedback on how we can improve the site. Thanks in advance.

conductr 11y ago
I like this. I've thought about tackling this space with something similar for years, just never made it a priority. I think your site is great but here's some feedback on that: you probably want to support Spanish language (did i miss it?). You could probably upsell the free aspect more heavily. I would remove the "why is it free" part. Just sell the FREE! Risk-free, no credit card required, sign up now!! People generally don't care why, this just distracts when you're trying to convert. Tell them why once in the app if you feel it's absolutely necessary, will make for a more natural "upgrade to remove ads" experience if that's what you're after I would test a landing page without the background image, and a more concise benefits w/ CTA. I just get the feeling that the above the fold section isn't converting to it's full potential. The mossy forest ground doesn't make it immediately apparent this is a landscaping website. I have to read the text, so focusing on the text make sense to me. If I click "Claim my profile" link, why does it scroll down? Seems like I want to sign up if I click that. Then if I click the "Get my Profile" button there's a popup asking if I already have an account. This flow seems very high friction. Keep up the good work!
- bgamido 11y ago
  Thank you for the thoughtful and thorough feedback! We will definitely start tweaking and testing the items you called out.
cdelb 11y ago
I got my entrepreneurial start in the home service industry and always used: http://www.kickserv.com/ http://www.kickserv.com/ Couple of questions: Can you explain the routing feature? Do you have any plans for automated marketing features? Follow-up after submitting an estimate was always a huge pain point for us.
- bgamido 11y ago
  kickserve wasn't on my radar but I'll take a look. Was there anything that you loved with kickserve in particular? Our routing feature allows our users to get door-to-door directions based on the scheduled jobs they have in our system. They can 'optimize their daily routes' to minimize distance traveled, or sequence their jobs if they have set times they have to be at certain properties. We are definitely looking into potential marketing tools we can provide our users (in addition to operations software). What type of marketing features would you get the most value out of if you were still in the home services business?

by bgamido 11y ago

conductr 11y ago

I like this. I've thought about tackling this space with something similar for years, just never made it a priority. I think your site is great but here's some feedback on that: you probably want to support Spanish language (did i miss it?). You could probably upsell the free aspect more heavily. I would remove the "why is it free" part. Just sell the FREE! Risk-free, no credit card required, sign up now!! People generally don't care why, this just distracts when you're trying to convert. Tell them why once in the app if you feel it's absolutely necessary, will make for a more natural "upgrade to remove ads" experience if that's what you're after I would test a landing page without the background image, and a more concise benefits w/ CTA. I just get the feeling that the above the fold section isn't converting to it's full potential. The mossy forest ground doesn't make it immediately apparent this is a landscaping website. I have to read the text, so focusing on the text make sense to me. If I click "Claim my profile" link, why does it scroll down? Seems like I want to sign up if I click that. Then if I click the "Get my Profile" button there's a popup asking if I already have an account. This flow seems very high friction. Keep up the good work!

bgamido 11y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful and thorough feedback! We will definitely start tweaking and testing the items you called out.

cdelb 11y ago

I got my entrepreneurial start in the home service industry and always used: http://www.kickserv.com/ http://www.kickserv.com/ Couple of questions: Can you explain the routing feature? Do you have any plans for automated marketing features? Follow-up after submitting an estimate was always a huge pain point for us.

bgamido 11y ago
kickserve wasn't on my radar but I'll take a look. Was there anything that you loved with kickserve in particular? Our routing feature allows our users to get door-to-door directions based on the scheduled jobs they have in our system. They can 'optimize their daily routes' to minimize distance traveled, or sequence their jobs if they have set times they have to be at certain properties. We are definitely looking into potential marketing tools we can provide our users (in addition to operations software). What type of marketing features would you get the most value out of if you were still in the home services business?