If you're going to submit your own app, here are some tips:
1) Link your homepage. HN allows you to title your submission and we'll forgive a teensy bit of valuable keyword stuffing in your submission if it's descriptive. Your homepage is always a more valuable landing page than a months-old blog post. If your homepage isn't as descriptive as the blog post, change your homepage then submit.
2) Either be at public launch or public beta when you do. Otherwise, you're blowing a chance to capture and on board a huge number of technically savvy people who will help you find bugs and UX issues in real time. (This was exceptionally helpful to us with Dawdle.com back when.)
3) Please make sure your blog has a big honking link to your homepage, not the blog homepage. Make that link an image with lots of tasty descriptive text to goose your SEO to your homepage, which will undoubtedly serve as your main landing page for normals who are Googling and press who wants to link to you.
It's not my app. I'm just came across AppHarbor yesterday and have been playing with it. The home page is very bare, so I linked to the blog to provide quicker access to info. I guess the guys have been too busy to get the home page ready yet.
I'm sorry if I've damaged the marketing opportunities. I was just excited to see them handing out beta invites and wanted to spread the word :)
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If you're going to submit your own app, here are some tips:
1) Link your homepage. HN allows you to title your submission and we'll forgive a teensy bit of valuable keyword stuffing in your submission if it's descriptive. Your homepage is always a more valuable landing page than a months-old blog post. If your homepage isn't as descriptive as the blog post, change your homepage then submit.
2) Either be at public launch or public beta when you do. Otherwise, you're blowing a chance to capture and on board a huge number of technically savvy people who will help you find bugs and UX issues in real time. (This was exceptionally helpful to us with Dawdle.com back when.)
3) Please make sure your blog has a big honking link to your homepage, not the blog homepage. Make that link an image with lots of tasty descriptive text to goose your SEO to your homepage, which will undoubtedly serve as your main landing page for normals who are Googling and press who wants to link to you.
It's not my app. I'm just came across AppHarbor yesterday and have been playing with it. The home page is very bare, so I linked to the blog to provide quicker access to info. I guess the guys have been too busy to get the home page ready yet.
I'm sorry if I've damaged the marketing opportunities. I was just excited to see them handing out beta invites and wanted to spread the word :)
No damage done, thanks for posting :-).