Hi HN! I am head of business at Deepgram (YC W16) and I'd like share a new project that we've been working on with RadioCut: a startup that allows users to clip radio snippets.

Our project is called DeepRadio (http://deepradio.radiocut.fm/) which allows users allows users to search for keywords and phrases in a number of past radio broadcasts.

For example, a user can search radio broadcasts for mentions of 'FBI' and the app would take the user to clips where the words were spoken.

I would love to get your feedback on how to make this more useful. Thanks!

Thanks!

Great point! We frequent lawnsite as well and there is resounding consensus that companies in the space want software 'tailored enough' to their specific needs.

You hit the nail on the head here. It is difficult enough to get companies in certain industries to use one technology, let alone 4-5 stitched together :)

You touch upon a very important point. It's actually a very delicate balance regarding how 'vertical' or 'horizontal' a product should be. We found that previous companies in this space have failed because they were either too much of one or too much of the other.

We found that for industries where technology isn't ubiquitously used, the one-stop-shop model is tremendously critical.

That being said, and to your point, we have a material portion of our core technology (invoicing, scheduling, billing, etc.) that is 'transposable' to other markets. We are definitely thinking along this line but it is part of the long term vision further down the road.

That is part of our philosophy as well. The balancing act is how 'verticalized' you make a product. Too vertical will entail challenges when you transpose to another market. Not vertical enough will entail challenges in the go-to-market.

You are definitely on the right track since it is otherwise very difficult for specific brands (selling big ticket items) to target a this highly specific yet large audience. We're currently monetizing along this dimension and plan to further optimize this approach.

Cool. Thanks and good luck!

Right now Yardbook is strictly a tool for the vendor (lawn professional). You can almost think about us as Salesforce and quickbooks for landscapers and gardeners. We haven't yet built out an experience for the homeowner to find and choose vendors, but that is definitely a consideration.

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

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.

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!

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

I got my entrepreneurial start in the home service industry and always used: 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.

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?

Slick design. Also interesting that there is alt-coin support.

Such thanks! Much wow :D