Since it's about helping upstarts and new web-apps you might wanna consider presenting more details about the apps you take up. Like information about what the app does, friction you felt, coolness etc. Just throwing in the logo/icon and the name of the app will not cut it.
In effect a critique which could either be your own or sourced via the community you intend to build will make this offering more compelling.
Most definitely you might want to keep away from presenting logos of Linkedin, Google Docs or even Trello i.e. of big, rising or successful companies. It starts looking like a hypocrisy if you do that, but obviously monetization is one concern in this spot.
Overall, it would be great to have a new web-app review destination which focuses solely on the product/founders and is zero on gossip.
Some initial observations:
- you have a much better UI for the directory
- we have more data on the apps, which we pull in automatically via API integrations
- our launcher has a few more features, including new tab replacement extensions for most browsers
- you seem to be targeting consumers, while we're focusing on business users
- you're further along with the app admin & app promotion side of things, we're just getting that going and aren't planning on having that as our main source of revenue
Can we collaborate somehow?
For example, we already have an RSS feed of all the new apps being added to our directory. You could use that to populate yours.
I would be happy to share all our app data with you via a REST API as well if we got something in return, such as a small link in the footer.
You can reach me here in comments, via Twitter (handle in profile) or by signing up and using the feedback form.
Really would be nice if I didn't have to manually crop & resize the screenshots before uploading. Just resizing and cropping them centered would have done a fine job in my case. Though you would probably want to disallow images that are too small so you don't get scaling artifacts.
When you get a validation error for a screenshot, the form forgets the URL, so you have to retype that every time.
Would also be nice with a tagging widget when entering tags. Currently there's no indication of existing tags.
Apart from that everything looks great! Good luck!
Nicely done! Love the UI, its so clean and intuitive.
Looking forward to publish my apps there.
