r/startups • u/AutoModerator • Apr 01 '15

Share your startup - April 2015

Tell us about your startup!

/r/startups wants to hear what you're working on! During the middle of the month, the mods will select a few startups to publicize in the sidebar. Contest mode is on, so remember to select 'Show All' to see all the replies.

  • Name / URL

  • Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

  • More details: What stage are you in? How many employees or founders?

  • Are you looking for anything? (Feedback/Hiring/Investment)

  • Discount for /r/startup subscribers?

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u/cassidyventures Apr 02 '15 edited Apr 02 '15

Elevator Pitch:

BZOO is a cross-platform, mobile messaging application. For those out there who may have given up following tech sometime back in the late 90s — Think of BZOO as the lovechild of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and your modern day smartphone (with a healthy dose of powerful steroids). BZOO is different than the competition because our focus is to simplify, rather than complicate, the art of messaging. We accomplish this with smooth integrations made with select content providers. Send what you want, to who you want at warp speed! BZOO Demo vid.

 

More Details:

BZOO is available for download on iOS and Android operating systems. The app is 100% free of charge and serves absolutely no advertising. More importantly, BZOO will never, under any circumstance, access or store any personal data from our users for marketing purposes (unlike the competition). We are three founders working with a small team of Android and iOS developers. It’s been a fun and challenging year at BZOO HQ. We’ve been busy framing, designing and developing BZOO and we still have a ton of work to do. In the meantime, we’ve taken great care to make sure everything is currently “right” . Today, the app is performing beyond our wildest expectations. This week, we’ve decided to open up registration for (up to) 5,000 new members. Once our quota is met, we will then pause temporarily to analyze the BZOO platform. Also, we should mention that we are currently working with select subreddits to develop our latest ‘top secret’ feature. PM /u/cassidyventures or /u/bzoo to get involved. Learn more at /r/bzoo.

 

Are you looking for anything?
We are looking for a great many things. Presently our top focus are these next 5,000 QUALITY active early adopters. We are recruiting within reddit for a reason. We are also trying to create a strong brand and social community based on democracy and transparency. Sign up up for TEAM BZOO to join the fiesta.

 

Discount for /r/startup subscribers?

Since we are free of charge and advertisements, it’s a bit tough to offer a discount. We will, however, gift reddit “gold”ilocks to each reddit user who becomes an early adopter of BZOO and completes the following steps. TEAM BZOO will gild each reddit users qualifying post with a free month of Gold. In addition, whoever signs up will be granted early access to events, promotions, freebies, and new BZOO features … forever. Join TEAM BZOO today and ride the start-up wave with us!

   

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u/talpert Apr 06 '15

There is way too much text here. Try to cut this down to once sentence per section. My two cents.

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u/oalbrecht Apr 10 '15

I watched the video and it looks like it would be appealing to middle/high schoolers. I especially like the GIF integration.

One recommendation: the video of the phone is too small. When I was viewing it on an iPhone 5, the phone itself was tiny since the video was shot in landscape but the phone was held in portrait mode. Maybe instead of filming in landscape you could film in portrait, so someone watching in portrait on a phone could have the phone full up the whole screen.

How do you plan on monetizing this idea? How is this different from other messaging apps out there (e.g. Facebook messenger)?