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Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

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Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#11

Post by callmeed »

Decent concept and it looks good.

Here is my main concern:

How do you draw the line between Web App and Website?

For example, I consider Weebly and Evernote to be web apps. I do not consider Digg or Wolfram Alpha to be ... furthermore, some of your listings only partly qualify as Web [Anything]. Dropbox and RescueTime both have desktop components and Skype is truly not a web app/site in my opinion.

I'm not sure how to define it or where to draw the line–I just think you might have more success by focusing your site on true web apps (i.e. browser-based apps or SaaS that replace/compete with desktop apps and solve a personal/business pain point). It will solve minalecs's point of having too many sites to filter through.

As the site is now, I probably wouldn't use it. But if it was truly an app directory where I could say "Hey, I need to do X ... I wonder if there's a web app" then go and find such an app ... then, yes.

Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#12

Post by mkyc »

Good idea overall. Get rid of the black application names. The are, and will always be, a poor and often incorrect duplicate of the logo itself.

Given your content, clearly separate your ads, or use text ads only. The change-background-on-hover effect is annoying. Use a white background since many logos are not transparent, and white. Remove that thin gray border, it makes the dark-background logos look messy. Your headings are not sufficiently distinct from your website titles (just remove the site titles, which will also keep the site from looking ugly when you have long titles). Put the little (3) vote counter to the left of the stars. Get rid of the dropdowns for sorting, and the buttons for pages.

When I click the logo, I expect to go to the site. I don't really care about your detailed info - that's what (more) is for. I don't want the company's often useless and spammy tagline, enforce a brief and useful description of the site. I don't want to dig around in subpages for information, and I don't want to see a screenshot of the site when I could have been looking at the site itself.

Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#14

Post by utsmokingaces »

callmeed wrote: post #11

Decent concept and it looks good. Here is my main concern: How do you draw the line between Web App and Website ? For example, I consider Weebly and Evernote to be web apps. I do not consider Digg or Wolfram Alpha to be ... furthermore, some of your listings only partly qualify as Web [Anything] . Dropbox and RescueTime both have desktop components and Skype is truly not a web app/site in my opinion. I'm not sure how…

Ya I agree is hard to define a webapp. If the site is useful and have functionality other than just displaying images and content, we would consider it.

Our goal is to make AppUseful straightforward enough to market to the mainstream users. There are already a lot of resources that target the geek community. About half of my friends still don't know about popular sites such as Yelp.

Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#15

Post by anigbrowl »

Kinda neat. Name/star ratings overlap logo box border in FF 3.0.1. App category link is well placed but maybe too small, ditto under the toolbar; my first impression was 'bunch of random apps, how do I sort these?'

Too many featured/recent/popular; how about only 4 in each, and rotate/fade them in and out, let me then go to the relevant page to see all recent or whatever.

Logo/tag cloud section is a bit too big IMHO. It takes up 1/3 of the window on my work monitor.

Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#16

Post by utsmokingaces »

mkyc wrote: post #12

Good idea overall. Get rid of the black application names. The are, and will always be, a poor and often incorrect duplicate of the logo itself. Given your content, clearly separate your ads, or use text ads only. The change-background-on-hover effect is annoying. Use a white background since many logos are not transparent, and white. Remove that thin gray border, it makes the dark-background logos look messy. Your h…

We will get rid of the background hover effect. It was something we were just playing with. Will consider getting the getting rid of website title suggestion.

Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#17

Post by [deleted] »

anigbrowl wrote: post #15

Kinda neat. Name/star ratings overlap logo box border in FF 3.0.1. App category link is well placed but maybe too small, ditto under the toolbar; my first impression was 'bunch of random apps, how do I sort these?' Too many featured/recent/popular; how about only 4 in each, and rotate/fade them in and out, let me then go to the relevant page to see all recent or whatever. Logo/tag cloud section is a bit too big IMHO.…

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Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#18

Post by [deleted] »

anigbrowl wrote: post #15

Kinda neat. Name/star ratings overlap logo box border in FF 3.0.1. App category link is well placed but maybe too small, ditto under the toolbar; my first impression was 'bunch of random apps, how do I sort these?' Too many featured/recent/popular; how about only 4 in each, and rotate/fade them in and out, let me then go to the relevant page to see all recent or whatever. Logo/tag cloud section is a bit too big IMHO.…

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Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#19

Post by utsmokingaces »

anigbrowl wrote: post #15

Kinda neat. Name/star ratings overlap logo box border in FF 3.0.1. App category link is well placed but maybe too small, ditto under the toolbar; my first impression was 'bunch of random apps, how do I sort these?' Too many featured/recent/popular; how about only 4 in each, and rotate/fade them in and out, let me then go to the relevant page to see all recent or whatever. Logo/tag cloud section is a bit too big IMHO.…

we will ajax the featured/recent/popular so users can scroll from left to right.

Re: Please review my Startup, AppUseful. Submit and rate your favorite apps.

#20

Post by utsmokingaces »

jack7890 wrote: post #8

I'm currently running a review-driven startup, so a couple questions related to things we deal with: 1) Are you planning on making money with this? How? Ads probably aren't the answer. 2) How do you keep users coming back? Once someone finds the app they're looking for, are they likely to visit your site with any regularity? 3) What percentage of users write reviews? If you're like other review sites, the number will…

sure i can help with these question. Whoever interested can msg me on http://twitter.com/rebelvc.
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