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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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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