Built by one person, on purpose.
Starvo is a review management SaaS for owner-operated local businesses. It is built and operated by Shiva — a solo founder and Electronics & Communication Engineering student. No VC, no team of 50, no inflated testimonials. Just the product and a direct line to the person building it.
Why Starvo exists
Local businesses live or die on Google reviews. A small restaurant with 12 reviews and a 4.2 average is invisible next to the one across the street with 380 reviews and a 4.6 — even when the food is better. The tooling that solves this has been priced for mid-market chains, locked behind sales calls, and quietly built on review-gating practices that violate Google's policies.
Starvo is the version that should exist for a single restaurant, café, hotel, salon, gym, or clinic: free to start, self-serve, AI-assisted, Google-compliant, and priced so a credit card covers it forever.
Who builds Starvo
Hi — I'm Shiva. I'm an Electronics & Communication Engineering student, and I'm the sole engineer and operator behind Starvo. I write the code, run the support inbox, handle the billing, and make every product decision. There is no team behind a curtain.
That structure has tradeoffs. The honest ones first:
- Response time varies. I aim to reply to support within hours; on a bad day it can stretch to one business day.
- I will not invent features. If something is on the roadmap I will tell you. If it is not, I will tell you that too.
- No fake social proof. Starvo does not have hundreds of testimonials, and I will not pretend otherwise. The product page lists what the product does, not invented customers.
The advantages of a solo operation:
- You are talking to the person who can fix it. No tier-1 support routing your ticket to nowhere.
- Decisions are fast. A feature request that lines up with the roadmap can ship the same week.
- The product stays focused. No PM team adding features to justify headcount.
How Starvo is operated
- Stack: Next.js 14, Supabase, Vercel, Groq (AI), Dodo Payments. Boring choices, picked for reliability.
- Payments: Dodo Payments is Merchant of Record. They handle tax, refunds, and fraud — I do not touch your card data.
- Data: Hosted on Supabase. Row-level security on every table. Customer data is never sold, never used to train external models, and is deleted on request.
- Uptime: Vercel + Supabase managed infrastructure. No homegrown servers to crash at 2am.
- Code review: Every change is run through automated typecheck, build, and security review before production.
What Starvo will not do
- Gate Google reviews. The Google review link is shown to every customer 1–5 stars, every time. This is a non-negotiable policy and a code-review red line.
- Generate fake reviews. Not a feature, not a roadmap item, not an option for any plan.
- Sell your data. Customer information is not sold, syndicated, or shared with third-party advertisers.
- Lock you in. No contracts, cancel anytime, account deletion is a self-serve button.
- Pretend to be bigger than it is. "Built by a solo founder" is in the footer for a reason.
Contact
Anything — feature requests, bug reports, billing weirdness, "is this thing on" — comes to me directly at support@starvo.app.
Try it
Free for 1 location, 50 customer scans/month, 20 AI replies/month. No card. Cancel from a button.