Like the TC article mentions, there have been/are other players in the market, though, to my limited knowledge none have been able to get a ton of traction. Honestly, I just don't see a Yelp-like site taking off country-wide, but I wish them luck. The reason is that Brazil is pretty fragmented and trying to get a site that people use in Rio-SP to be used in Manaus or Fortaleza, for example, will be their up hill battle. In the several recent years I lived in/all over Brazil, I thought many times about "what if Brazil had this or that service?" but in the cases where there was some sort of cloned-US (or even original) service that I could use, once I moved to the other side of the country, that same service was no longer useful due to the concentrated userbase.
The likely other market would be Belo Horizonte, since RJ-SP-BH are where most of the startups [1], and presumably early adopters, are.
1 - Brazil's Crunchbase http://www.startupbase.net/
By the way, here's Glio's numbers (translated)
- 75% of the published reviews are positive - 4/5 stars
Yes, that's one of the main challenges with Brazil & Latin America -- to make sure we get every single city's unique aspects right, we're going to roll out one city at a time.
And Belo Horizonte is for sure one of the most promising next cities where Glio's product can be really useful.
By the way, I've got to update the About page numbers, those are from a while ago.
Just an idea or two, btw. Glio could make a video, like the 'about' page one, for each city, showing people interacting with the city you're rolling out in. With 4G being installed, at least in the World Cup cities, it will be a boon for your service.
Another suggestion, in case it's not already a feature of Glio, is to implement ReclameAqui's company response ability (Resposta da Empresa/Reclamações Atendidas), at least privately so a company can respond to negative reviews and invite the user to come again to try them out and perhaps change their mind/review.
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Like the TC article mentions, there have been/are other players in the market, though, to my limited knowledge none have been able to get a ton of traction. Honestly, I just don't see a Yelp-like site taking off country-wide, but I wish them luck. The reason is that Brazil is pretty fragmented and trying to get a site that people use in Rio-SP to be used in Manaus or Fortaleza, for example, will be their up hill battle. In the several recent years I lived in/all over Brazil, I thought many times about "what if Brazil had this or that service?" but in the cases where there was some sort of cloned-US (or even original) service that I could use, once I moved to the other side of the country, that same service was no longer useful due to the concentrated userbase.
The likely other market would be Belo Horizonte, since RJ-SP-BH are where most of the startups [1], and presumably early adopters, are. 1 - Brazil's Crunchbase http://www.startupbase.net/
By the way, here's Glio's numbers (translated)
- 75% of the published reviews are positive - 4/5 stars
- 450 people on average read each review
- 400,000 consumers have already used Glio
- 1 million page views
- 4 million characters written in user reviews
Yes, that's one of the main challenges with Brazil & Latin America -- to make sure we get every single city's unique aspects right, we're going to roll out one city at a time.
And Belo Horizonte is for sure one of the most promising next cities where Glio's product can be really useful.
By the way, I've got to update the About page numbers, those are from a while ago.
Thanks a lot for the feedback.
No problem.
Just an idea or two, btw. Glio could make a video, like the 'about' page one, for each city, showing people interacting with the city you're rolling out in. With 4G being installed, at least in the World Cup cities, it will be a boon for your service.
Another suggestion, in case it's not already a feature of Glio, is to implement ReclameAqui's company response ability (Resposta da Empresa/Reclamações Atendidas), at least privately so a company can respond to negative reviews and invite the user to come again to try them out and perhaps change their mind/review.
Both are great ideas, thanks!