The Review Hostage Situation
If you run a business today, you know the drill. You sign up for a review platform. You work hard to direct your happy customers there. You build up a profile with hundreds of 5-star reviews.
Then, the sales call comes.
"Nice reputation you have there. It would be a shame if... someone put ads for your competitors on it."
Or perhaps you want to stop paying their $500/month "Pro" fee. Suddenly, you're told that if you downgrade, you'll lose access to your widgets, your API access, and potentially even the reviews themselves.
Your reputation is being held hostage. You are paying rent on your own social proof.
We Believe This is Wrong
We built Reviewlee because we were tired of being tenants on platforms we helped build. We believe that business reputation belongs to the business, not the platform that hosts it.
Here is what makes Reviewlee fundamentally different:
1. You Own the Data. Really.
With Reviewlee, your reviews are yours. We provide full JSON and CSV exports at every plan level, even the free one. If you decide to leave Reviewlee, you take your reputation with you. We don't lock you in; we earn your business every month by providing a great service.
2. We Are Infrastructure, Not a Marketplace
Trustpilot, Yelp, and G2 are marketplaces. They sell trust. Their business model relies on consumers visiting their site to check your credibility. This creates a conflict of interest: they need to keep value on their platform.
Reviewlee is infrastructure. We provide the pipes—the forms, the databases, the APIs—for you to collect and display reviews on your own website. We don't want to be the destination; we want to help you make your destination better.
3. API-First and Developer Friendly
Most review platforms treat their API as a gated "Enterprise" feature. We treat it as the core product. Reviewlee allows you to build completely custom review experiences. Want to build a custom React component to display reviews? Go ahead. Want to trigger a review request via a webhook when a user completes a course? Easy.
4. Transparent Moderation
We don't let businesses delete negative reviews. That would defeat the purpose of a review system. However, we also don't let trolls destroy a business. Our moderation logs are transparent. If a review is hidden, there is a public record of why (e.g., "Verification failed"). Trust is earned through transparency, not censorship.
Trying to Outlast, Not Just Replace
We aren't trying to just be a "cheaper Trustpilot." We are trying to build the review infrastructure for the next decade of the internet. An internet where data is portable, platforms are interoperable, and businesses aren't exploited for their own success.
If this sounds like the kind of platform you want to support, give us a try.
Your reputation belongs to you. Take it back.