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by zachflower 13y ago
It is surprisingly easy for us to rebrand into different industries. We did a test with the golf course industry a little while ago and it only took a few hours to go from idea to working product.
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by zachflower 13y ago
What is happening there is that we were able to get some geolocation data back from your IP, but a standard "City, State" format isn't available (for whatever reason). That being said, you are absolutely right. It is very con
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by zachflower 13y ago
I think what is happening there is that we were able to get some geolocation data back from your IP, but a standard City, State format isn't available (for whatever reason). You are right, though, that is very confusing. In the event t
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by zachflower 13y ago
Our pricing structure is the biggest point of debate among us, however we are testing different models across a few different marketing platforms and will stick with what performs the best in the long run. As for sentiment analysis, we were
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by zachflower 13y ago
For the current version, we link directly to the review on the original site, however we are currently working on integrations with all of our review sites to allow our users to reply directly through our interface.
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by zachflower 13y ago
Thanks for the notice, Sujan. I didn't realize the MongoDB library we are using wasn't suppressing those types of errors out in production. Fortunately, all the data stored there is just crawl data, as we are careful to silo sensi
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by zachflower 13y ago
Great catch! We fixed that early on in the live reviews, but clearly didn't update the screenshot. Thanks!
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by zachflower 13y ago
Thanks!
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by zachflower 13y ago
Telling our users the tools we use doesn't provide any benefit to them. That being said, we are huge fans of ST2, and this seemed like a better alternative to screaming about it from the rooftops :)
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by zachflower 13y ago
We aggregate all of our reviews and mentions through a combination of web scraping, API integrations, and manual scraping.
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by zachflower 13y ago
While there are several review site management services out there that offer services that sweep bad reviews under the rug, we believe that excellent customer service is what makes a good business great. We run our business with that mindse
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by zachflower 13y ago
My co-founder's parents own a restaurant. Being the technical person of the family, he has always been responsible for managing the restaurant's online presence. Checking and updating the large list of review sites and social netw
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by zachflower 13y ago
We recently opted to open up the restaurant searching outside of the target area to ensure we found the restaurant we were looking for (Google wasn't always returning accurate matches within the city selected), however it sounds like i
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by zachflower 13y ago
Nice catch. Definitely a typo, we're only a few months old, but I'll have that set dynamically from now on.
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Show HN: Online Reputation Management for Restaurants(bistro.is)
24 points by zachflower 13y ago|39 comments