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A website where a business recommends other businesses

2 points by askmany ↗ HN
Would a website where businesses recommend other businesses work? For example a company wants to buy furniture for its office or want to hire a logo designer or want to hire an accounting firm... i guess it would be a great help if the company can find out what other similar companies are using.

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tikkun
The main things people use here are:

G2 & Capterra for software

Clutch & GoodFirms for service providers and vendors

askmany
here i am referring to smaller businesses, so that they can checkout for localised businesses around them or their competitors
tikkun
What kinds of businesses?

Accounting firms and design firms are mostly on Yelp, Google Reviews, or Clutch.

Office furniture firms are generally on Google Reviews and sometimes Yelp.

askmany
yeah they are but: for example - you own a bakery , you can log on to the site and check out what other bakery owners have bought and from where. for example someone bought a unique display rack or someone bought a cheaper billing paper roll.
leakycap
I have yet to work with a small business that had money & time on hand at the same time, so I see an uphill battle to establish a site like this.

Not that it would cost much to run, if you're interested or somewhat curious about how the venture would go.

I don't use either site, but it seems LinkedIn & Facebook/Instagram are being used like this with many small business owners.