Comments on: Online reviews portals catching up in Pakistan

By: Karachi Snob: An online business directory : Green & White

Karachi Snob: An online business directory : Green & White — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:30:51 +0000

[...] and places popping up every where. They have their work cut out for them with other players like starz already there allowing users to even review places and give ranking and foodcourt allowing users to [...]

By: Moon

Moon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:25:47 +0000

Wow!
They have changed their look and feel. This looks good now and original – isn’t it? People’s comments here made the difference.

By: Qazi

Qazi — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:42:03 +0000

Well if they listened to criticism held it in positive and acted upon it, I would give them a very high ranking there are very very few people in pakistan (let alone businesses) who have the heart to listen to criticism in a positive way.
Good going starz

By: bunnu

bunnu — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:23:17 +0000

obaid rightly said… yeah i do agree that comparing story line was wrong but i wasn’t comparing the stroylines i was pointing out to the same fact that you are saying their execution matters sure anyone can copy sawant also pointed out the same by sharing http://www.tipped.co.uk , thanks sawant.

I was just on starz seemed they took things too seriously and changed their look and feel too i guess our comments made the difference… yippeee

By: Sawant

Sawant — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:29:32 +0000

It’s good to see such sites coming up in Pakistan. We, at NLT, are also launching a site with similar concept soon, called yellO!

As for Starz and co being a rip-off of Yelp, that’s true to an extent, but almost all such websites follow the same pattern as Yelp, for example: check out http://www.tipped.co.uk/listings/50658/strip . And there are many other websites, US and UK based, which have the same structure and layout style and even the categories.

As for yellO, more info will be revealed soon.

By: Obaid

Obaid — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:33:09 +0000

bunnu, comparing a movie’s storyline that is ripped off an hollywood movie, is like comparing apples to oranges.

I don’t care if they ripped the idea, anyone can do that — their success will ultimately depend on their execution. But they have copied the whole look and feel and without giving any credits back to the original developer.

That is wrong. Just plain simple wrong.

I really hope they have a plan to execute behind the idea cuz otherwise its just another site with no hope.

By: bunnu

bunnu — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:31:21 +0000

Oh common! would you give these guyz a break! they took an initiative and made something for the local market and that too country wide not just one city!!. I guess their real bench mark of success is how many people start using their site not that it was a rip-off. no one criticizes india for ripping off anything infact every one around the globe love their movies (even if they are 90% ripOffs ).

By: Obaid

Obaid — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:41:50 +0000

this is an interesting market..

By: Osama A.

Osama A. — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:45:03 +0000

Cool… I wonder who’s teaching startups here that this is a good way to go? Rip-off, SEO, Google Ads = Bling?

By: ripped-off

ripped-off — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:38:03 +0000

Sharjeel, it’s not just a shamless rip-off..:) that would suggest that they just copied the idea or something, it’s EXACTLY the same COPY of the html code even the div tags, everything is same (except ofcourse things that “starz” dont need!)

However, it’s okay! They just ‘imported’ the idea, copied a successful site and started to focus on marketing. Who cares about technology behind it as long as it helps us users!