Indonesia-based Promoote pitched in Startup Arena Jakarta this afternoon, pushing their solution for helping people find services that they can trust in their local area.
Promoote says that instead of friend recommendations or the yellow pages, you can use its services to find services that have registered on their platform. Readers may recall that we wrote about Promoote back in January, and the service today brought their pitch to Startup Asia.
They use a freemium business model, charging services for things like analytical tools. THey have three levels of services for different types of services. Daniel Saito pointed out the problem of having to identify and classify different tiers of businesses for in such a process.
The judges were pretty skeptical, and asked how they plan to acquire both users and service providers. The folks from Promoote acknowledged that this is indeed a sort of chicken and edge problem, but they noted that by partnering with some big fish services like laundrettes they can improve their visibility.
This is a part of our coverage of Startup Asia Jakarta 2012, our startup event running on June 8 and 9. For the rest of our Startup Arena pitches, see here. You can follow along on Twitter at @startupasia, on our Facebook page, on Google Plus, or via RSS.