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Honestly
Real reviews from Reddit & YouTube when shopping online
518 followers
Real reviews from Reddit & YouTube when shopping online
518 followers
The 5-star system is broken. Honestly is a Chrome extension that finds and verifies real product opinions from Reddit, TikTok, YouTube & Instagram directly on product pages. No ads, sponsorships, nor AI. Just reviews you can trust.
As a first-time Product Hunt user, I’m approaching this as a novice with limited experience evaluating SaaS platforms quickly.
From my perspective, the landing page felt unclear in terms of what exactly is being offered. At first glance, it appears to be a social media monitoring tool -> sounds great!
However, I also noticed there’s a Chrome extension and it left me wondering: who is the primary audience here? Is this built for users like me (e.g., brands or marketers) to monitor my brand, or is it intended for general consumers?
This raised a broader question about the product’s positioning. Is this a dual-sided platform that depends on consumer adoption to deliver value to brands? Or is it simply an extension of the same technology into a different use case?
I understand the offering to brands, and it's a great offering. Congrats.
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@tryexcept Hey Jay! Appreciate the comment and totally agree (we're also first time product hunt launchers!). We have two separate offerings. One for consumers and one for brands. In retrospect, the website is heavily catered to our brand offering. We got a lot of feedback echoing this and we're already in the process of building a separate landing page for the consumer product, so that they won't get mixed up!
To your question about the positioning, we offer the chrome extension for free for consumers and we have a much more in depth version for brands to use! Social listening is one aspect, competitor analytics is another, content creation ideas, etc.. We can basically tailor the product to your needs using our data.
One example is a brand wanting to know when someone complains about a jersey they bought eBay, so that they can reply and offer their jersey marketplace as a solution.
Another is finding creators who have affiliate links for X product that go to amazon so they can contact them for their affiliate network. The possibilities go on!
Thanks again for the kind words and if you ever wanna chat you can reach us at lets@usehonestly.com!
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@curiouskitty The kitty is always coming in with the big questions! The specific part of the PDP journey failing today is the point after a shopper reads all descriptions and reviews on the page. Once a shopper clicks "Add to Cart" and realizes the next step is to spend their money, they hesitate and find external validation from real people on social media who aren't paid to speak on a product.
By bringing the reviews shoppers already look for to every PDP, consumers can use this information to make a very simple purchase decision instead of getting lost in the noise of the internet. Furthermore,
We're partnering with various Shopify brands at the moment to give the exact numbers on how effective this is, and are already seeing very promising results. Super excited to demonstrate how using Honestly can significantly reduce cart abandonment very soon!
Congrats on the launch guys! Congrats @scott_davidson_jr
Once the tool aggregates all the discussions, what formats can we extract this data in? Is there a way to export these insights to share with the broader team, or does it all live inside the dashboard for now?
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@byalexai Thanks so much Aleksandar! As a consumer, at the moment there is no data to extract/export - it's just an ability to see all the reviews from social media relevant to the product page being viewed.
As for brands that are interested in getting the review data, that is something we provide in a dashboard catered to what product features, trends, or categories of reviews each brand is interested in to increase website conversion rates.
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How this tool can identify the "realness"? What are the parameters for identifying what is justified review?
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@busmark_w_nika We do our best to filter our any posts that have sponsored content in them, AI generated content, and/or fake content. There are many people who review farm and those are easy to spot, and our sponsored content detection is getting better as we build larger datasets and have better transcription on videos.
There will absolutely be content that makes it through our filters, maybe we can add a "report as sponsored/fake" button on each review card.
What do you think of us not hiding all this content, but rather tagging it properly and allowing you to filter it?
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@honestly tagging is better than censorship ;) people should have the whole spectrum of information available so they can orientate better :)
How do you decide which real reviews from Reddit or TikTok to prioritize or filter first; like recent ones, most upvoted, or from verified buyers, to cut through noise fastest?
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@swati_paliwal Right now we have an internal algorithm that determines content authority using the likes, comments, creator and more variables. This is only getting better with time!
What we want to eventually get to is not creating one ranking for all, but rather having "good for X / bad for Y" style ranking. For example, if you're a runner in Finland, you're looking at this shoe for a different reason than a runner in LA. What might matter is a review that speaks about the waterproofing, the durability in cold weather, etc..
I think you should try to do a more elaborate platform built in your website just like https://reppit.ai for example, currently it look more like a Service Agency website than a chrome extension tool it's a little bit weird.
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@vesper_city Great point, we are creating a site that caters to both Chrome extension users as well as Shopify stores since we are currently developing a Shopify app as well. The goal is to allow both the average shopper and brands bring transparent reviews from social media into the shopping experience. That's helpful feedback as we continue to improve our site!
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@vesper_city 100%, might even make a separate landing page for the consumer chrome extension to reduce confusion.
Reddit and YouTube reviews are genuinely the most useful signal when buying something. Sponsored content is noise but someone spending 20 minutes testing a product on YouTube usually catches the real issues. Does it pull the actual text/timestamps or just surface the video links?
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@mykola_kondratiuk 100% agree. These days online shoppers trust a stranger on Reddit or YouTube much more than any review a brand's review site or on platforms like Trustpilot. In terms of how we pull the videos in, we retrieve the actual comment, post, or video so that it can be viewed on the page. Specifically for the videos, we also have time stamps attached to parts of the transcript relevant to the product being reviewed.
This way, the shopper never needs to leave the website!