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ReviewVoice
See why the place two doors down has a line
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See why the place two doors down has a line
2 followers
ReviewVoice reads the Google reviews of the places around you and compares them with yours: what their customers praise, where they slip, what to check at your place. Reply drafts in each reviewer's language included; 1–3★ never post on their own. Built by two restaurant owners in Seoul.
Hi Product Hunt, Dongkook here. I write the code; Taeyang runs the shops.
ReviewVoice reads the Google reviews of the places near you and yours, and tells you what customers praise next door and what to check at your place. It also drafts replies. Free to start: your place + one nearby place, once. No card.
A few things I struggled with while building it, in case it's useful to other builders:
1. Making it not lie. "Customers love the service" is useless and easy to make up. So the report quotes the reviews behind its findings, and you can read them and judge for yourself.
2. Deciding what is "worth copying." A busy place gets praised for a hundred things. The hard part wasn't reading reviews. It was separating what a neighbor can act on next week (a readable menu, seats for solo diners) from what they can't (the location).
3. The wait. Reading reviews properly takes minutes, not seconds. Even the free snapshot (up to 50 reviews per place) takes a few minutes. I stopped fighting that: the report keeps running if you close the tab, and we email you when it's ready.
4. Google's permission screen. Google's wording ("see, edit, create and delete") scares people off, and I can't change it. We use it to read your reviews, profile and Google stats, and to post replies. We never change or delete your listing, photos or hours. The sign-in page explains this permission right under the Google button. It's still our biggest drop-off.
5. Replies. Nothing posts on its own unless you turn on auto-posting. Even then, 1–3★ replies always wait for you. That one was never a debate.
What I'm still unsure about: is a "your report is ready" email fine, or do you expect results on screen right away? And which review source would you add after Google?