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Re: Ask YC: Any Feedback on new web app ratings site appreciated

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How many people are working on it now? You say "we" in your comments. Is there a team involved, or is this a solo project. Either way, it looks great.

Just 1 developer on a continuing basis (me), and I paid another contractor to do some programming work, and another contractor to input some data.

Are you full time, or part-time? How much time do you estimate you'll be putting into it per week once its up and running?

Re: Ask YC: Any Feedback on new web app ratings site appreciated

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just 1 developer on a continuing basis (me), and I paid another contractor to do some programming work, and another contractor to input some data.

Are you full time, or part-time? How much time do you estimate you'll be putting into it per week once its up and running?

I'll probably be paying more for others to work on it, and I'll focus on writing reviews.

I need to take a week to regroup though, and figure out the strategy for this.

It looks like success hinges on two things (which in retrospect is obvious): (1) getting a really well organized (categorized) database of apps (2) creating momentum on review writing.

Re: Ask YC: Any Feedback on new web app ratings site appreciated

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you full time, or part-time? How much time do you estimate you'll be putting into it per week once its up and running?

I'll probably be paying more for others to work on it, and I'll focus on writing reviews. I need to take a week to regroup though, and figure out the strategy for this. It looks like success hinges on two things (which in retrospect is obvious): (1) getting a really well organized (categorized) database of apps (2) creating momentum on review writing.

App owners have incentive to add themselves to the database. Maybe an email announcing yourself to App owners would be less work than going through and adding them all yourself. It also is a sort of secondary press release and will get people talking about you.
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