Neon: Quickly review stuff and share with your friends

Steven Garrity
silverorange blog
Published in
2 min readFeb 2, 2017

We at silverorange have been working on new product we call Neon.

The goal of Neon is to allow you to quickly review stuff and share the reviews with your friends.

With this prototype, we’re trying to learn if people can create compelling reviews quickly—usually from a mobile device.

You can already post elaborate reviews on dedicated review sites, or even Medium, but these take a significant amount of time to craft. On the other end of the spectrum, you can make a Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram post that says “love it”. We wanted something in between.

Our initial vision combines a photo, a simple rating (out of 10), an emoji, and a few other quick fields. From this input, we build a simple and fun review that’s easily shared on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever else you like.

Here are a few example reviews:

Food by Ottolenghi. Cool-shades rating badge by Neon.
Ilulissat Water Taxi review by our resident guy-who’s-been-to-Greenland-twice.
Glasses by Warby Parker. Face by Nick.
Review of Ticket to Ride Board Game

Creating reviews with Neon is limited to a group of early testers for now. If you’re interested in trying it out or learning when it becomes more widely available, sign up and we’ll let you know.

silverorange designs and develops simple and powerful web and mobile applications. We’ve worked with clients including Mozilla, Hippo Education, EM:RAP, TinEye, CourseHost, and Duolingo. Read more on our blog or follow us on Twitter.

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Steven Garrity
silverorange blog

One of many founding partners at silverorange, in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island.