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

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Post by utsmokingaces » Thu, May 28, 2009, 4:45 PM UTC

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

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Post by utsmokingaces » Thu, May 28, 2009, 4:55 PM UTC

The HN community is very important to us. We would love to hear your feedback. If you are a web entrepreneur, feel free to submit and write a review promote your web app. Thanks.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 28, 2009, 5:30 PM UTC

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Post by chanux » Thu, May 28, 2009, 6:02 PM UTC

Neat.

OpenID please.

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Post by minalecs » Thu, May 28, 2009, 6:22 PM UTC

overall, good idea, and good execution. I can see myself coming back to use this. My only concern would be right now the list is small, but as it grows in size it will get harder to filter through the sites. example would be go2web20 . They have a lot of good sites, just difficult to go through them all and find good ones.

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Post by utsmokingaces » Thu, May 28, 2009, 6:39 PM UTC

minalecs wrote: post #5

overall, good idea, and good execution. I can see myself coming back to use this. My only concern would be right now the list is small, but as it grows in size it will get harder to filter through the sites. example would be go2web20 . They have a lot of good sites, just difficult to go through them all and find good ones.

That is definitely something we would spend a lot of time on. We are starting to see some categories that don't fit. The tag approach of go2web20 is confusing for the average users, we will add subcategories in the future. Our rating system will display the higher quality apps to the users first.

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Post by sant0sk1 » Thu, May 28, 2009, 6:49 PM UTC

A site I use and love is http://iusethis.com. They have versions for Mac, Windows and iPhone. Looks like your site is for web apps. You might be a good fit into their product line...

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Post by jack7890 » Thu, May 28, 2009, 6:50 PM UTC

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 be shockingly small. How can you incentivize users to review?

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Post by smokinn » Thu, May 28, 2009, 6:50 PM UTC

I see a few sites like threadless that, to me at least, don't even come close to fitting any sort of definition of "app".

Is this meant to be an open index of web apps/services? While useful now, like minalecs pointed out, I see it quickly devolving into an index of the internet in general if it gains traction.

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Post by mkyc » Thu, May 28, 2009, 6:51 PM UTC

First impression, the site has a spammy feel. I think it's the light-blue color, especially of that tag cloud on top, or perhaps it's that your logo seems to yield too easily to the content. (See perhaps movil .be/?s=delicious.p and www.mobi .tv/tag/m/m for comparison.) Short of messing with it, it's hard to identify what gives this impression, but when I scroll all the way to the bottom the contrast seems to fix things...