{"id":64024,"title":"Boostly (S22): Text Marketing \u0026 Feedback on Autopilot for Restaurants","tagline":"We provide an automated text marketing and feedback system to restaurants that works seamlessly with their point of sale and online ordering systems","body":"**We provide an automated text marketing and feedback system to restaurants that works seamlessly with their point of sale and online ordering systems.** Our restaurant partners typically get $10-$15 back for every dollar that they spend with us.\n\nWe founded Boostly in 10/2017 and went through a few pivots before we landed on this current concept that we’ve grown to roughly $1M in annual revenue through outbound sales. We’re just getting warmed up and plan to grow our marketing channels during YC. \n\n## **Problems**\n\n* Restaurants live or die based on their ability to get their customers ordering regularly, but over 60% of a restaurant's customer base never make it in for a 2nd visit.\n* Customer data is notoriously hard for restaurant owners to access because it’s in several different systems with various accessibility challenges.\n* Restaurant owners are strapped for time and often lack any marketing know-how.\n* Most restaurant marketing lacks good tracking to know exactly how it’s working.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\n* We aggregate customer data from several data sources for the restaurant \u0026 get customers to opt in to receive texts from the store.\n* We put text marketing on autopilot with weekly offers, birthday deals, \u0026 relevant reminders.\n* While the customer eats, we solicit feedback via a 2 click survey and help to connect the restaurant with the guest if there was an issue or generate a 5 star review on Google.\n* We track the restaurant’s ROI across all of their sales channels (online, over the phone, or in-store).","slug":"Gee-boostly-s22-text-marketing-feedback-on-autopilot-for-restaurants","created_at":"2022-06-23T19:13:00.409Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T11:25:46.918Z","total_vote_count":37,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gee-boostly-s22-text-marketing-feedback-on-autopilot-for-restaurants","share_image_url":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/share_images/6f3d57ad7a4349d34be50524e303cde326718fa8.?1679431440","company":{"id":26742,"name":"Boostly","slug":"boostly","url":"https://boostly.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6153c2d55508c4c573ba2dcb29993d7dfb36bfbf.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"B2B","tags":["SaaS","B2B","Messaging","Food Tech"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26742"}}