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Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

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Post by abcd_f »

How do you pick what goes on the front page and how long it stays there? Or is it just FIFO queue with most recent on top? If so, how do you throttle it and what's the backlog?

One thing that I don't like about BetaList (as a submitter) - there's no insight into whether your submission is going to be accepted and if it is, then when it's going to be featured. If you can make your site better for submitters, you will have an upper hand over BL, which is the competitor to measure up to at the moment.

Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

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Post by juretriglav »

mountaineer wrote: post #7

Twitter auth is not functional http://imgur.com/70sPKpM

Same for me. The author should set up some kind of exception notification, so as to catch exceptions he or she doesn't see. Easiest to set up is https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification

I'm sure it's all very test-driven though :)

Also, a nicer error page would be ... nicer. The default Rails error page oozes professionalism (I'm guilty of delaying error pages styling for way to long too - who's ever going to see them, right?)

Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

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Post by StuieK »

chmike wrote: post #57

I'm surprized there are very few apps presented from a user centric point of view. "This app is a ..." bad, "Make better ..." good. This makes it clear and easy to grab how the app will contribute to make my life better, anf why using and buying it might be worth for me. Hey Kalzumeus, your marketing lessons are starting to work on me! I was just a dumb programmer before.

How did we do? "We help people quickly make decisions between competing options."

Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

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Post by keerthiko »

tripley wrote: post #31
keerthiko wrote: post #21

Bookmarked! We may submit our product on here once I consult with the rest of my team.

May I ask why you wouldn't submit a product here? I'm just curious.

Our product is transitioning from closed to open beta. Among other reasons, a) We would want to set up tracking for referrals and to better gauge the effects of different distribution channels, among other things. b) we will have an explicit need for a traffic bump in a small window in the near future, so I would rather save an avenue like this to coincide with our other efforts. This scenario could exist for others too in situations such as looking to ride off a press story, and wanting to utilize the traffic to boost a crowdfunding campaign, etc.

Also, unsure if this is actually a meaningful place for our product, as it's a mobile app and so not as direct, but that shouldn't really hurt I don't think

Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

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Post by ngoel36 »

abcd_f wrote: post #61

How do you pick what goes on the front page and how long it stays there? Or is it just FIFO queue with most recent on top? If so, how do you throttle it and what's the backlog? One thing that I don't like about BetaList (as a submitter) - there's no insight into whether your submission is going to be accepted and if it is, then when it's going to be featured. If you can make your site better for submitters , you will…

As a co-founder of Bitcast (http://www.bitcast.io - the current top listed "Kickoff"), I can say the traffic from Kickoffboost has been great!

For some rough data: We actually launched on HN a week ago and had about 120 concurrent visitors for a span of ~6 hours. I assume this link, at it's #1 ranking since ~10pm PST, is getting somewhere around 100-150 concurrents as well (because of the off timing). As a result, it seems that around 10% of Kickoffboost's traffic (10-20 concurrents) has been consistently directed to Bitcast which isn't too shabby. I'll be interested to see what the numbers look like when traffic isn't being directed from HN.

Re: I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

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Post by agilebyte »

StuieK wrote: post #67
chmike wrote: post #57

I'm surprized there are very few apps presented from a user centric point of view. "This app is a ..." bad, "Make better ..." good. This makes it clear and easy to grab how the app will contribute to make my life better, anf why using and buying it might be worth for me. Hey Kalzumeus, your marketing lessons are starting to work on me! I was just a dumb programmer before.

How did we do? "We help people quickly make decisions between competing options."

Stock options? Or just options in general? So is it like a friend giving you advice?
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