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productYo: Making your products visible among the right people!

By Chirag Jain on 16 Comments / 1331 views

Rodinhooders,

I am really excited to be a part of this awesome forum and wanted to introduce our new startup productYo (I am a startup evangelist at productYo).

Platform:

productYo (www.productyo.com) is a product discovery platform for India . The products are crowd-sourced by startups evangelists from the eco-system, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and journalists (our logo makes sense now?). productYo brings great visibility, early adopters, feedback and PR to the awesome products you are building.

Inspiration:

The platform was inspired by a highly successful platform based out of US that lets users share and discover new products. The said platform has provided a great tool to product evangelists in enabling discovery of awesome products and to entrepreneurs in getting visibility among the right people.

Pain Point:

Finding early adopters, getting early visibility and traction in India is a nightmare (platforms like therodinhoods help greatly in alleviating this). Having felt this ourselves while marketing our previous products and seen the success of a similar product in US we believed there was a void in the startup eco-system in India, and hence we built productYo.

How does it work:

People who have used Reddit should find it quite familiar. Discovered Products (Name, title, thumbnail) are posted by startup evangelists invited to post, which can then be upvoted, commented on.  The page also has a hyperlink to the product/startups page. While invitation is necessary to post and comment,  anyone can register to view and upvote.  Products posted should have a beta version out for the post to be approved (One cannot discover and experience a non existent product!!! ).

How to get an invitation to post and comment:

We placed a restriction on posting and commenting to ensure quality of products on the platform. you can always request for an invite by sending an email to yo@productyo.com. Invites are restricted to startup evangelists who love talking about startups and/or products. In the meanwhile feel free to register and discover great products made for and from India (and if your product is listed, learn what users have talking about you). 

Look forward to your feedback and your invite requests.

PS: Asha and Alok – Look forward to you registering on productYo. We will white-list you immediately to post and comment :).

Links:

Website: www.productyo.com

Twitter: www.twitter.com/@productyoHQ

Facebook: www.facebook.com/productyoHQ

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  1. hey chirag – when i read this, it was like i could hear so many things i normally tell people!

    early adopters, early traction, constructive feedback. these are my fav words i use while telling folks why they should showcase their ventures on trhs 🙂

    so basically, if we isolated the showcase section of trhs – and summed everything up in one line – that becomes you! 

    neat!!

    two questions – why the name ‘productYo’ (yeah branding always intrigues me)

    and how will you keep track whether comments are genuine or not? 

  2. Hi Asha,

    Thanks for the comment. Startup evangelists like you are an essential part of productYo to help in discovery of great products.

    name: Yo could be used in multiple ways but one way it is used to bring attention to something and that is what we do – bring the world’s attention to products. We wanted to stress on Yo hence the capitalization besides of course fueling some curiosity in folks :).

    Comments: As I noted the comments and posting is restricted and invite only and we would gradually build that. Since the login is through twitter we would be able to verify if the user himself is genuine.

    Would love to see some product posts from you on pY and getting additional feedback.

  3. Quite interesting!!  As an entrepreneur such platforms  could be really helpful.Have been a member of the US platform you mentioned and seen great things happen to the startups which have had their products posted on that platform.  If that can be recreated here in India that would definitely be great.

    Good Luck!

  4. Thanks Vikas for the comment and thanks for signing up. Looking forward for your feedback.

  5. Dude, how can I sign in when the Twitter permissions read as

    Authorize productYo to use your account?

    productYo

    http://www.productyo.com/

    Collection of best and new products from India!

    This application will be able to:

    • Read Tweets from your timeline.

    • See who you follow, and follow new people.

    • Update your profile.

    • Post Tweets for you.

    Will not be able to:

    • Access your direct messages.

    • See your Twitter password.

  6. Hi Chirag, All the best for your website!.

    I was trying to register rachittech id but saw below 2 requirements

    • Update your profile.

    • Post Tweets for you.

    Can you tell us why you need this? Asking Such permissions makes me hesitant to register

  7. Hi Amod,

    Thanks a lot for your attempt to registering. As I noted above under Alok’s comment these options are shown as we selected read and write as permission for the app.  Post Tweets was needed so that the  social share option works. We do not need permission to update your profile but we do not have any option to individually unset that as twitter only allows three modalities. We have however now moved to using read only. Look forward to you signing up.

  8. Hi Alok,

    We have changed our settings to read only and look forward to having you onboard. Also yesterday we got in a lot of traffic post your comment, demonstrating how somebody single handedly can help startups like ours. This is what we plan to achieve through productYo as well through startup evangelist like you.

  9. :)))) chirag – y’day alok shared your post on his personal fb & twitter – that’s what would’ve brought you lots of traffic!! 

  10. That certainly should have been the case and It was overwhelming for us and for our servers as well 🙂

  11. haha – this dude’s site crashed after alok shared his post over social. 

    check the number of views and comments 🙂

    https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/instantly-predict-final-charting-status-of-indian-railways

    and then chk what happened after this!

    https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/pnr-me-wins-the-thack-bangalore

  12. :):)– a big lesson for all of us. Before posting on trhs make sure to bump up your servers so that they can handle the sudden bump in traffic!! 🙂

  13. Thanks. New requirements are much cleaner and makes sense. We get similar feedback on our android apps , people asking why you need this permission etc.. After I login, I don’t see an option to post though.. may be i missed something during registration?

    All the best with your website!

  14. Amod,

    Thanks for joining. Post button would only show up for invited users. We will be sending invites soon to a few select users based on their activity on the platform.

  15. Signed up! Looking forward to the newsletters!!

  16. Welcome Alok! You joining is differently the shot in the arm we needed. Have also enabled your account to post and comment on the platform. Look forward to some great discoveries from you.

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