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It feels like you are trying to raise VC money at the moment. I mean, look at that H1:

"Bridge the gap between data and decisions"

If you are planning to send traffic to your website from real customers and convert them, my recommendation to you is to start with a narrow focus. How about this for an H1:

"Chat with your Shopify and ad data to understand what's driving sales"

Or:

"Link Shopify + your ad accounts, chat with your data and get insights"

In their FAQ section, they say:

appLie-ai helps you bend the truth in ways that get you noticed, but always encourages you to stay safe and smart. Use your best judgment and never claim skills you cannot back up!

Is this enough? I don't know.

Things are getting a little confusing. Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything,’ recently raised $15M from a16z! Is Cluely legal and ethical to use? Legal in some places? Possibly. Ethical? Much harder to argue.

You are 15! Impressive, I must say!

About the product, I'm not really sure if this is a painkiller. People are doing this with Miro and Mural these days. Ask yourself why customers would switch. Change has a cost for customers (money, time, effort, risk). Your solution must stand out significantly to justify this cost. Differentiation is the essence of your solution, capturing attention and explaining why the new way is better.

Read Click by Jake Knapp!

Thank you so much for your insightful feedback! I really appreciate your detailed comments. Here are my thoughts on the points you raised:

Terminology: Interesting suggestion to use "(payables) bills" instead of "(receivables) invoices". We recognize that "invoices" might be more understandable for people in Europe, but we’ll aim to balance clarity for both regions.

Scope: I know what you mean. This is our beachhead. Our vision is to build a tool for freelancers, contractors, consultants, and SMBs to monitor their financial health. We want to enable people to run their businesses smarter.

Integrations: That's correct. We are going to start by fetching and analyzing data from invoices, but we will expand the system to include contract, license, and usage data. And yes, we will introduce data destinations in the future. QuickBooks and Xero are already on our list.

Pricing: Valid point. With our 'Essential' plan, companies can connect multiple inboxes and have some simple notifications and reports. Our data shows this is sufficient for freelancers and early-stage startups.

Messaging: We will go harder. For now, we are going to keep it simple :)

Transparency: We'll work on providing more details on our website, especially to meet EU standards. By the way, did you check the FAQ section on our website?

Thank you again for your encouragement and valuable suggestions!

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AI needs to start doing useful things to deserve all that electricity and computational power it's being fed with :D

Yes, Invoice Detector can do that. This is essentially what we cover in our 'Essential' plan. Go ahead and give it a try.