I'm a software guy in Brooklyn. I build small tools, and this is the one I care about most. Every local shop I know loses work the same dumb way. The phone rings while they're under a car, or on a roof, or with a customer standing right there. They can't pick up. The caller doesn't leave a message. He just calls the next shop on the list. So I built The Mayor. It's a front desk you talk to. You sign in, you tell it what your business does, your hours, what you charge, how you book. Plain conversation, no setup screens to fight with. Then when a call comes in and you miss it, it texts the caller back in your trade's words, answers the basic questions, and books the job into your calendar. You run your day the same way. You ask it what's on today, tell it to follow up with someone, tell it to move a booking. It keeps the customers, the tasks, and the follow-ups in one place. What it costs, plainly: there's a free tier to try it. Pro is $99 a month. Right now there's also a founding deal — $79.20 a month, locked for life — with 25 seats on it. When they're gone, they're gone, that's the whole clock on it. One honest part: your calls and texts run through your own phone provider account, and that bill is theirs, separate from mine. I don't mark it up and I don't hide it. I'm one guy building this, so tell me straight: what would make you not trust a thing like this with your customers? What am I missing? https://mayor.mehyar.us   submitted by   /u/zer0h0t [link]   [comments]