Introducing New LaunchRock: A Complete Re-Build

"Current Customers: The new platform is being rolled out over the next couple weeks. Currently, only new Customers will have access but please don’t think we forgot about you"

Ouch. I understand there is a large amount of technical work involved in getting everybody transitioned over smoothly, but you'd think they'd get the current customers ported over first, instead of driving off without them and promising they'll be back to pick'em up soon.

Re: Introducing New LaunchRock: A Complete Re-Build

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Post by bryanjowers » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 6:36 PM UTC

timjahn wrote: post #6

"Current Customers: The new platform is being rolled out over the next couple weeks. Currently, only new Customers will have access but please don’t think we forgot about you" Ouch. I understand there is a large amount of technical work involved in getting everybody transitioned over smoothly, but you'd think they'd get the current customers ported over first, instead of driving off without them and promising they'll…

This was a decision that was made with careful thought. Because most of the rebuild was matching feature parity, our current customers would get little benefit from the new platform because they have already launched their site and building their audience. The new suite of features that we're announcing benefit our Customers who have not launched a site yet. Due to the size of the rebuild, this was just not a possibility, unfortunately.

Re: Introducing New LaunchRock: A Complete Re-Build

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Post by bsmith » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 6:38 PM UTC

Looks great, but your sticky header/nav bar takes up a quarter of the browser on my 13" MacBook. I'm all for sticky nav, but please make it smaller!

Re: Introducing New LaunchRock: A Complete Re-Build

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Post by ricardobeat » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 7:34 PM UTC

Login fails completely on the latest Firefox (16/OSX).

Re: Introducing New LaunchRock: A Complete Re-Build

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Post by jhuckestein » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 7:44 PM UTC

In case anyone from launchrock is reading this: I'd be much more likely to use launchrock if I could embed the relevant functionality (signups, sharing, referrals) using javascript.

You're about to reimplement every tool that somebody would want to use to set up a landing page, beginning with an editor. What if I want to use a wordpress blog as my landing page. What if I wanted to embed the launchrock lead gen tools with some announcement that is posted on another site? I think that'd be useful and you wouldn't have to build so many things.