Launched this week
Honestly
Real reviews from Reddit & YouTube when shopping online
500 followers
Real reviews from Reddit & YouTube when shopping online
500 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.
People already check Reddit or YouTube before buying. The part I’m curious about is what happens right after install. Right now the value depends on the user remembering to click and check. If that first moment isn’t obvious, a lot of people might install it and never actually use it enough to feel the benefit.
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@arun_tamang 100%. We're currently a floating widget on product pages and we're working on making it easier to 'spot' as some people who download the extension tell us they can't find it. We'll push an update to this as soon as we get more data on what works best.
@honestly How're you thinking about the moment when someone actually decides to check it? Is it something you’re trying to trigger based on behavior or relying on the user to remember it?
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@honestly @arun_tamang Great questions! Rather than a specific behavior, the extension can detect when it is on a product page and appears automatically in that way. We are currently doing a bunch of testing with what positioning, color, and formatting is best so that it is always extremely simple for a user to click the extension.
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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Hey Product Hunt 👋, I’m Paolo, CEO & Co-founder of Honestly.
THE PROBLEM
Online shopping is broken. Not because there aren’t enough reviews, but because you can’t trust them.
Why today’s review system needs fixing:
❌ Fake & incentivized reviews: Over 30% of all online reviews are fake and ads are everywhere. This will only get worse as AI gets more unrecognizable.
❌ Time wasted finding real opinions: The takes that matter live in social media, so to get there, the average shopper spends 30 minutes buried in tabs just to find something useful.
After experiencing this frustration over and over ourselves, we decided to fix it.
WHAT HONESTLY DOES
Honestly brings real, verified opinions directly onto product pages where they belong.
Instead of relying on a suspicious 5-stars, we surface what real people are already saying elsewhere.
✅ Instant real reviews: Pulls genuine opinions from Reddit, TikTok, and YouTube real time.
✅ Automatically verified: No bots, no AI summaries, no paid ads. Just authentic human voices.
✅ No more tab suffocation: Now that everything is in one place, no need for jumping between Google, Reddit, YouTube, and other social platforms.
✅ Clear buying signals – See what people actually love & hate before you spend your money.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
If you shop online and want to make better decisions without wasting time or getting tricked by fake reviews, Honestly was made for you.
Great idea! But now I have a problem - I won’t be able to choose a product at all because I always focus only on the negative reviews, haha. Seriously, though, this is a super useful app for me. The main thing, in my opinion, is to add protection against deliberate campaigns to damage a brand’s reputation through fake negative reviews.
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@allurepixel Absolutely! This is actually such a big issue. We've been speaking to brands and figuring out how our data and analysis can help them too.
This is literally automating my own shopping workflow — I always add 'reddit' to every product search because Amazon reviews are 80% fake at this point. Smart move keeping it non-AI. How do you handle products with no Reddit/YouTube mentions? And is there any deduplication for reviews from the same user across platforms?
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@ilya_lee Exactly! Fun fact, Kalvin and I ran into this problem while testing another startup idea (it was an AI voice agent to help you shop) and the first thing we noticed with every user test was someone copying the product name then going to reddit, youtube or TikTok.
Right now for the products with no reviews our research is quite limited. One of the ways we can try to fix this is by pulling reviews for the actual brand. What do you think about this? How would you go about doing review research for a product without any reddit/youtube content?
How do you handle products that have very few mentions across Reddit and YouTube? Do you fall back to other sources or just show what's available? Congrats on shipping!
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@borrellr_ Thanks! For products that don't have social proof we're thinking of focusing on the brand as a whole rather than the specific product. That way you can tell if this is a trusted brand and by who. What do you think, how do you usually handle researching products that don't have any social proof?
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Just a FYI for those who are looking simply for the chrome extension, here's the direct link to our extension page: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/honestly/mjnniilmpkfkkeadhkcdakibbpmpaehl
Our current website is more geared towards brands, we're working on building a new landing page specifically for consumers :) Thanks!