Launchly actually started as a direct result of some interractions here on HackerNews so I hope you will all help me welcome her into the world!<p>Launchly is all about getting iterative feedback for new websites. The goal is for a community similar to HackerNews to follow launchly via RSS and/or Twitter, checking out and providing feedback on new webapps that they find interesting.<p>Each new launch gets published to various social media outlets like Twitter, Delicious, Digg, etc. We track all sorts of metrics for the the launch creator and present them in useful and appealing graphs.<p>Please check it out and let me know what you think! Feel free to use the launchly launch on launchly (that's a mouthful) to leave feedback or just leave it in this thread.<p>http://www.launchly.com
I often get the feeling we, as the tech startup community, spend too much time looking inward. I understand that everybody says "scratch your own itch" and "solve a problem that <i>you</i> have, because you can't really understand other peoples problems", etc. But, it seems like maybe you've chosen a very small market (web startups), who are broke practically by definition, and then selected a dramatically smaller niche within it (web startups that have just launched). Not only that...it's a niche that means the people who would want to post a launch would never have reason to return after the initial rush of the launch period.<p>So, what you've built looks very nice. You seem to have executed well from a technical perspective...but I fear you're about to find out that you don't have a sustainable business (beyond maybe paying for the server costs).<p>Then again, what do I know? I work on boring stuff all the time, and I thought Facebook and Twitter were kinda dumb. I could just lack the vision to see what you see in this particular niche of this particular market.