{"id":77,"date":"2025-03-06T18:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:24:23","slug":"tekpon-com-boasts-of-230-million-reviews-and-charges-249-to-be-listed-its-probably-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/tekpon-com-boasts-of-230-million-reviews-and-charges-249-to-be-listed-its-probably-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekpon.com boasts of 230 million reviews and charges $249 to be listed. It&#8217;s not worth the price and there&#8217;s no way all those reviews are real."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Launch Point Zero is typically skeptical about launch websites that charge startups to be listed and have no free option. We prefer when a site charges a fee to cut to the front of the line. We&#8217;re not here to quibble over charging a little. However ProductHunt.com, arguable the most popular site to launch on, is free. If PH doesn&#8217;t charge then how can anyone else justify charging that much money to launch or list your product?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of Launch Point Zero&#8217;s mission is to keep our readers informed about each site. We do our best to review each launch site and keep our readers informed and make good decisions. Since we&#8217;re bootstrapped we&#8217;re very price sensitive about paying for anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently while updating our data we decided to update our review of <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpointzero.com\/launchsites\/tekpon\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"tekpon.com\">Tekpon<\/a> &#8211; it is a paid only site that charges a hefty $249. We only became aware of <a href=\"http:\/\/tekpon.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"tekpon.com\">Tekpon<\/a> back in August of 2024, and we didn&#8217;t have a lot of information back then. Upon further review of March 2025, their homepage boasts of over 230 million reviews. That is an extraordinary amount of reviews!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also strikes us as very dubious. As of March of 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g2.com\/\">G2.com<\/a>, one of the most popular software review sites, currently claims to have 2.9 million reviews, and it has been around since 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capterra.com\/\">Capterra<\/a>, another well known software review site, claims is has 2.5 million reviews. Somehow Tekpon has accumulated nearly 80 times more reviews than G2 in a fraction of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s even stranger is Launch Point Zero&#8217;s first notes about Tekpon was made in August 2024, where they boasted of 34 million reviews. That means that Tekpon has accumulated 196 million reviews in less than 8 months time. That alone should raise a red flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All we&#8217;re saying is it is highly unlikely that Tekpon got even a tiny fraction of their reviews through real people, its likely AI generated reviews and fake profiles. We strongly recommend AGAINST anyone paying $249 for the privilege of being listed on Tekpon&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch Point Zero is typically skeptical about launch websites that charge startups to be listed and have no free option. We prefer when a site charges a fee to cut to the front of the line. We&#8217;re not here to quibble over charging a little. 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