← Homeowner HQ · The 90-second lender demo
Same job — an agent sends a homeowner a video. Here is what the homeowner goes through on each system. Their side is quoted from Homebot's own Help Center — not our opinion of it. Ours you can try right here.
Record somewhere else
Homebot hosts nothing. Their help docs: a video "must first be hosted on a video platform" — YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, Loom — before it can be used at all.
Paste it in, a different way per host
A URL here, a video ID there, embed code somewhere else — a different incantation for every platform, and embedding can be silently off at the host.
For a true 1:1 video, buy a second product
Personal video runs through BombBomb — a separate paid account, with the tracking living over there, not in Homebot.
An email with a fixed subject line
It cannot be changed, for any audience, ever:
It doesn't arrive today
The send starts the following morning and drips out over 7 days. One video email per week, and no edits after sending.
Click → a report opens → hunt the corner
The video never plays in the email. The click lands in the Home Digest report, where the video sits as a small widget in the bottom corner — find it, then press play. And a video under 60 seconds? Their system doesn't support Shorts at all.
Record or upload inside HQ
Phone or laptop, right in the composer. Or record a voice note when you don't want the camera. No other app, no other account.
It lives with HQ
Uploaded once, hosted by us, with a thumbnail you pick. Nothing to paste, no host setting that can be silently off.
You write the subject line
Every send, every audience — your words. Then it goes out the same day.
One tap — it plays
A thumbnail and a play link in the email. One tap opens the player. Any phone, any browser — no app to install, no login, nothing to hunt for. A 30-second vertical update plays exactly like a 3-minute one.
This player is the real HQ player. When video hosting is live for your account, a sample send plays here — the same page your homeowners get.
You see it land
Played, watched to the end, replied — on the homeowner's own record, in HQ. Not in a second product's dashboard.
Theirs: hosted somewhere else, pasted in, fixed subject, seven-day drip, corner of a report. Ours: recorded here, hosted by HQ, your subject line, sent today, one tap to play — inside the same plan ($25 realtor join or $5 lender founding-rate join, plus $100 messaging), no second product.
Homebot emails your clients once a month. HQ runs on Amazon AWS — send whenever you want.
Homebot picks your cadence. In HQ, you pick the sequence. Weekly, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly, or video-first — set once in your profile, and HQ runs your book on it.
Honest footnote: no video literally plays inside Gmail or Outlook — that's true for everyone. The difference is the path after the tap: ours is the video, theirs is a report with a video in the corner. Every claim about Homebot above is from Homebot's own Help Center documentation, checked Nov 7, 2026.