launchly

Well I must admit that at first I was pretty confused what the point was. Your YouTube video helped out a lot but it's almost hidden. You might want to make that a bit more prominent if that's how you intend to explain your service. As a side note, the part in the video where it sped up was very odd.

Once I figured out what the service was, I thought it was a pretty cool idea. I'm now trying to use it to find/follow users for launchly. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I added a bunch of keywords like "web developer", "web application", "programmer", etc. but nothing comes up when I filter it by tagged users like in your video. If I randomly click through a few of the people on the page though they have stuff in their bio that matches my tags. If I could get it to work I think it'd be pretty cool.

When I first logged in I got this alert message: JSChart: Not enough data to render. You might want to hide that.

I also think it's a bit odd that you show a spinner and say "Loading /full/path/to/resource". I'm guessing you have that there for debugging since it's a new app but may want to clean that up and only show it on your admin accounts or something.

I was a bit confused by some of the internal navigation. One example that stuck out is if I'm looking at Friend A and I click the top "X Friends" navigation link, it leaves me on the page for Friend A instead of showing me all X of my friends for me to switch to another. I was unable to figure out how to get back to my friends index page.

Thanks for that Brian. I think I've tried to be a bit too clever with the navigation and keeping the server load down to a minimum by making a lot of it ajax. Users expect another page to load instead of everything loading inside of the same page.

I'm working on an update to the interface and it should go live tomorrow. It will address all of the navigation problems that you have seen tonight.

Launchly is cool, all you need is lots of sites on here and you'll be rocking :)

Forgot to mention.

Log into tweetpromote, go into your profile and add lots of keywords such as "developer, web, html, programmer, coder, coding, programming, jquery" etc.

Then click on the friends option, find my twitter account, click on my image and then click the explore button.

You can then explore all of my friends where you'll find lots of web developers, use the filter options on the right hand side to view "tagged, no follow back" (i.e. people who match your keyword tags but who are not following you) and you'll be able to follow a couple of hundred developers in a matter of minutes :)

I follow about 2000 coders and industry people, including lots of iphone developers, web developers, jquery programmers etc. Tweet Promote should easily help you reach more people like me if that is who you are looking for.

Hey thanks, and thanks for the tweet. Yup, just need to get the word out to people that this service exists and I think the launches will start flowing!

Can't wait to see the site updates. Remember you have to wait at least one week to create a new iteration on launchly (from your dashboard when it's available) but you have up to one month if you want to roll more features into a release!

Ahh, that's working much better once I paired back the tags from "web developer" to web, developer instead. Very cool, thanks!

Yep, I can see you are now following hundreds of like minded people in a matter of minutes.

Twitter only allows you to follow about 1000 accounts per day, and with new accounts like yours, it is sometimes as low as 500. Still, Tweet Promote has already saved you a hell of a lot of time and you can always return tomorrow and in the future to follow more.

That is why my tag line is "the fastest and most powerful way of finding targeted friends and followers on Twitter. No automation, no robots, no spam, just quick and simple exploration of the Twitter users that matter to you."

Enjoy and good luck with your site. I'll plug it again during the week when more people are at their computers (it is 1am here in Spain).

It would be nice if I could have a certain filter "stick" as my default.

Just had another issue. The app seems to "die" at times, most likely due to Twitter misbehaving. Sometimes I get the error that Twitter is over capacity and it lets me retry but other times I just get a white page. When that happens, the fact that you're using AJAX is actually kinda frustrating because the back button doesn't seem to work for me and neither does refreshing.

That means I end up having to click back on followers, find the one I was exploring, and get back to the page I was on.

That is on the list of things to do :)

The history function is being added today. It will remember where you have been so you can continue if twitter is playing up.

What do you think of the new redesign?

I like the buttons at the top. Looks much better IMO than how you had them on the side before. Nice work. They look slick too. Still just waiting on that feature so it remembers your last used filter. Once you have that in place I think it will be awesome (at least for how I'm using it).

Maybe even just consider making Tagged No Follow Back the default filter?