I am going to go on a limb here. Is this actually a shill for launchly.com?
If not, your wordpress theme looks great, and sillyapp seems to work just as well as every other customized WP blog. Honestly, it does look great, but lets get real, it is a blog.
If I want to review something at launchly, I go to launchly. HN should not be used for marketing and promotion. Yesterday you submitted something about launchly, you should leave it at that.
I was honestly curious how this would be received by the HN community. The sole purpose of launchly is to try to get a website the feedback that it needs. I do not see how it is very different for me to post a site that wants feedback on their behalf than if the app/site came here directly and did so?
Would it be OK for the site owner to come here and request feedback (via the standard Ask HN post) and link to their launchly launch so that they are better able to track their launch success/failure in one place? If so, then why is it a problem that I "do them a favor" and remove that requirement from their plate? If that wouldn't be OK, why not? It seems silly for the site to have to aggregate feedback in multiple places just so they don't link to launchly.
I have no intention of ever reposting the same app/site if they have already requested feedback here prior to coming to launchly. HN is an amazing source for news about, among other things, website launches. That's why I follow it every day. I hope that launchly becomes a focused source for that type of news. If we can offload some of the launch news to launchly then HN could focus more on startup and general hacking news.
I'm very interested in hearing peoples' opinions on this topic.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 8.8 ms ] threadIf not, your wordpress theme looks great, and sillyapp seems to work just as well as every other customized WP blog. Honestly, it does look great, but lets get real, it is a blog.
Would it be OK for the site owner to come here and request feedback (via the standard Ask HN post) and link to their launchly launch so that they are better able to track their launch success/failure in one place? If so, then why is it a problem that I "do them a favor" and remove that requirement from their plate? If that wouldn't be OK, why not? It seems silly for the site to have to aggregate feedback in multiple places just so they don't link to launchly.
I have no intention of ever reposting the same app/site if they have already requested feedback here prior to coming to launchly. HN is an amazing source for news about, among other things, website launches. That's why I follow it every day. I hope that launchly becomes a focused source for that type of news. If we can offload some of the launch news to launchly then HN could focus more on startup and general hacking news.
I'm very interested in hearing peoples' opinions on this topic.