Here’s how we look at it - we’re set on making Review.Network a success, and we’re in it for the long run. Once we release a public Beta and people and companies get a feel for what is possible on a large scale, we know that these kinds of businesses can grow really fast, especially with the marketing push we’re planning and our plan to on-board a lot of businesses. With the interest we’ve seen with our Beta signups (over 20k in 24 hours), we are certain that we’ll experience incredible growth once we let people in.

There may be unforeseen circumstances that will require us to grow our team really quickly on the operations side of things - while still pushing serious R&D for the following releases which will extend the platform’s capabilities even further. We have no doubt we’ll hit the soft cap and have big plans for the future!

Hey Hullo! We appreciate the kind words and the support! Our plan indeed is to bring something new to the market research industry, and we aim big!

Thanks for your support Bui Van Diep! We have a lot of cool things lined up for the near future

Thank you! Be sure to sign up for our Beta list if you haven't already
https://beta.review.network/preregister

Hey AmoreJaz!

Our soft cap is €3m. We are going to develop the Beta version scheduled for the end of the year no matter what, and of course the tokens will be generated as scheduled after the public sale. The soft cap is based on financial calculations needed to make Review.Network a finished, polished product, and grow and improve it over the course of 1-2 years.

Also an important note is that Review.Network will not be "an app only" - it consists of two parts:

- A lower layer blockchain data exchange protocol allowing monetization and verification of users' private data without them sharing it
- An open blockchain protocol that anyone will be able to use to develop apps for reviews / market research upon
- The Review.Network platform that will build upon the above protocols and provide Market Research and Online Reviews. It will consist of a multitude of apps - web app for companies to create surveys, mobile and web apps for users to manage their data and participate in market research and reviews, browser extensions and SDKs for web and mobile allowing third parties to integrate RN reviews or add support for market research to their platforms.

Hope I answered your question, if you'd like to know more just ask!

Hey opium! We do offer bonuses:

20% bonus for investments above 1 ETH
30% bonus for investments above 5 ETH
40% bonus for investments above 30 ETH

The base token price is €0.01, so for example if you want to buy 10 000 REW, you'd get 20% bonus, so you'd actually get 12 000 REW, which makes the price €0.083

Hey Onika84! We're planning to make Review.Network a global go-to platform for reviews and surveys. In order to do that, we need to onboard a huge number of users as well as a lot of companies who will use the platform. User acquisition will be our focus after we release the Beta version of the platform (end of 2018.). Also at the same time we will onboard companies who will try out the platform, especially through our strategic partnership with PayXpert and access to their network of retail customers.

Didn't quite understand the question about the difference to bitcoin and eth, but REW is a utility token. It allows companies to access the market research platform, and it's used to reward users for providing their opinion on products and services.

If you have any more questions, let us know!

Thanks for your support! We'll let you know if we need Romanian translation in the future!

Awesome questions! Here's how it works:


Exactly! We are very aware of this, as it is a big problem in any kind of quantitive research. We will use the tried and true ways of dealing with it, while using the blockchain for settlement.

Review.Network will provide advanced survey creation tools to companies that will allow them to create statistically sound surveys. One of those methods consists of adding the same question to a survey asked in different ways, so you can easily spot the inconsistencies. In case a company receives answers to a survey that contain inconsistencies, it will be able to "challenge" the user on it, who may lose his staked tokens if this kind of behaviour is proven. Of course, this may also open users to the attack of a company denying them payout even if they completed a survey correctly, so the companies will also be required to have a stake of tokens in the system. On the other hand, it would be quite tedious for a company to have to check each survey for validity manually, which is why this will be a semi automatic process implemented by the client side application (as survey answers come in, they will be analyzed for validity and any suspicious activity will be presented to the company to approve the act of challenging users who misbehaved).

Some of our team members are experts in psychology and statistics and they are helping us shape the solutions to this challenge.


This is a very, very good point. Privacy in market research is important for multiple reasons - bias minimization, preventing competitors from learning about your activities if you are a company, keeping submitted answers secret if you are a user...

We are going to implement the privacy of data on multiple levels in regards to market research (reviews on the other hand will be publicly accessible to anyone). First, companies will have a choice of being anonymous or not. Next, surveys they create will be encrypted and only users matching the demographic targeting will be able to decrypt them. Once users submit their answers, they will also be encrypted so that only the company who created the survey can read them.
 

Thank you for your support! We truly believe that people should be rewarded for sharing their opinion about products and services they use, as it is valuable both to the community and to companies! And in that way we help make those same products better, so it's a win for everyone

Hey Nicolas9! Yes, we do plan to run a promo campaign like that soon. Please follow our Twitter, as we'll announce it there in the next few days

Hey 5o5kY, that is a great question! The main difference is that Revain is focusing on online reviews (just ICO & crypto reviews currently), whereas Review.Network is a full-fledged Market Research platform. We focus not only on reviews, but on market quantitative analysis too (in form of research surveys). The important thing to note is that both market research surveys and user reviews are ways of communication between brands and consumers, and that is what we're trying to improve, making Review.Network a global market feedback loop.

Now, if we talk about online reviews specifically, Revain has a good system and solid token economics. But we wanted to do things a bit differently from them. In Revian, companies buy credit in their tokens, which are then spent anytime someone leaves a review about that company. Our focus was to take out the companies completely from online reviews, creating a transparent, non-censorable, community-governed part of the platform where people can discuss products in a safe way.  Companies can participate in Review.Network through market research surveys.

"But if companies don't pay for reviews, where do the rewards for review writers and validators come from then?"
- Here's how it works - the main monetization method of Review.Network is actually market research. Companies buy tokens and use them to conduct research. When you answer a survey, a big chunk of those tokens goes directly to you, but the rest is distributed between special token pools, mainly Review Rewards Pool. The users who write reviews that are valuable to the community get their token rewards from the Review Rewards Pool. Review Rewards Pool is initially filled with tokens and able to start rewarding users right away. But then as time goes by and the platform gets used, it is refilled through market research activity. We put a lot of thought into this token model, especially to make it self-sustainable over time.

If you'd like to learn more, we're always happy to answer questions, and you can also refer to our whitepaper

Hey there SentineliAU - thank you for your support! We have pm'd you an email address. Let's stay in touch!

Hi there, and thanks for the support, we really appreciate it!

On August 1st we will open for another 75k Beta pre-registrations. Everyone who signs up for this round will get 300 REW tokens, and you will then receive your personal referral link which will provide 100 REW tokens for each person you refer.
All tokens will be issued at the token generation event on October 1st 2018.

You can use this link to pre-register: https://beta.review.network/preregister