new app site launched today "hotapptoday.com"

cmasterenkocmasterenko Member Posts: 52
edited November -1 in Announce Your Game!
Everyone our new site is now up and we are ready to add your apps! "Hotapptoday.com" For a limited time you can become a member and have all your apps posted for free during our beta phase,during the next 2 months all members will be free. After that there will be a ten dollar per month fee per member NOT PER APP! This is just to cover operating and marketing cost. We have placed a marketing campaign with goggle and yahoo, a mass emailing to 10 million approved email address every week, placing banners with online game sites, seo project, and more. All scheduled to start next week..

INCREASE your apps visibility send us an email at "Member@hotapptoday.com" and we will send you our detail doc with all the information.

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  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    Have you seen this: http://www.saladgamers.com/

    ???

    QS

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  • JamesZeppelinJamesZeppelin Member Posts: 1,927
    I think hotappaday has been in the works for quite some time now.
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    That wasn't quite my point... but I'll let it go ;)

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  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    @QS impressive keywords eh!! ;) takes seo to a whole new level.
  • cmasterenkocmasterenko Member Posts: 52
    @QS Yes, I've seen that site, but I'm trying to offer a more robust site if you will since saladgamers doesn't seem to have any marketing behind it.
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    I think the site needs a little more UI attention rather than more robustness.
  • mrfunkleberrymrfunkleberry Member Posts: 424
    Well, if you want to start highlighting differences...

    Unlike Hotapptoday.com, SaladGamers.com has...

    A free game a day
    Free for any GS developer
    Easy game submission
    Over 100 games
    A presentation that promotes the games
    Good graphics
    Video reviews
    No missing images
    And many more features in the pipeline

    Hell, i've even got Meta Tags with actual content.

    Sorry to criticise, but i spent a LOT of hard work on the site, with the help of many GS developers. For you to keep saying my site is not 'robust', or doesn't have any 'marketing', is incredulous at first, and then damned annoying.

    Honestly, i only did this for the good of the GS community, not to charge them $10 a month.

    But as i said before i wish you all the best, all efforts to promote GS games is a worthy cause. I just hope the saying is true, that bad publicity is good publicity :)
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    @mrFunk...
    IMHO, this site is no threat to saladGamers.com by any stretch of the imagination.
  • BreezeonholdBreezeonhold Member Posts: 187
    Well actually "Hotapptoday.com" might be a threat if it does have good marketing like cmasterenko said. It doesn't matter if the other guys site looks better... it all comes down to which one will get you the most downloads, and it seems like hotapptoday might be a great choice.

    However "cmasterenko" you need to work on the layout a little more if you want return visitors. I like the idea of the ipad; but the background inside the ipad isn't working for me. Not trying to be mean just trying to recommend some help.
  • wayneh001wayneh001 Member Posts: 300
    cmasterenko said:
    @QS Yes, I've seen that site, but I'm trying to offer a more robust site if you will since saladgamers doesn't seem to have any marketing behind it.

    Fair play to everyone who wishes to evolve and advance their knowledge, skills and entrepreneurial endeavours, but come on...

    You've created a website with very little robustness or backend capabilities - or front end capabilities for that matter. To criticise or make any comparisons to SaladGamers.com is just not a good idea, as the two sites being discussed here are truly leagues apart.

    The [HotAppToday.com] web site has the following significant commercial problems:

    1. No business details.
    2. No contact info.
    3. No tax, vat or payment methods.
    4. No Upload facility of App data.
    5. Poor visuals (text, content, graphics, layout).
    6. Missing images.

    Also, if you want the [HotAppToday.com] web site to be marketed, you're going to have to think about including some form of Meta Data for bots to traverse into your site and populate.
  • design219design219 Member Posts: 2,273
    wayneh001 said:
    ...

    Summed up very nicely... Exactly right.
  • iDeveloperziDeveloperz Member Posts: 1,169
    Yeh the UI is a bit messy. But not as bad as this one...

    http://www.theworldsworstwebsiteever.com/

    Good luck with it though :)
  • ginnixginnix Member Posts: 41
    The site looks really messy on Safari. Really needs a lot of polish to be taken seriously.

    Keep working on it, it will only get better :)

    Good Luck.
  • cmasterenkocmasterenko Member Posts: 52
    Update
    1.meta tags are getting loaded tomorrow,

    2. There is no need for a payment method for the UI the site is not selling anything to users. Under the members admin screen there is a payment method for members to renew monthly.

    3.Uploading members apps and data is currently being done internally however Members will be able log on so members can add their apps on there own. (Coming end of the week).

    4. At ten dollars a month to high? honestly your kidding after looking at other app sites change to just post one app and with this you get access to use the banners and featured app location included.

    5. IT'S FREE FOR THE FIRST TWO MONTHS! you have access to banners, featured apps, a major marketing campaign, and someone to even load everything for you.. Hmm better then free trail? I am listening?
  • design219design219 Member Posts: 2,273
    What kind of traffic do you have?
  • cmasterenkocmasterenko Member Posts: 52
    As the original post said, the site is still in beta and marketing will not begin until next week.
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    Personally, I don't care if the site is designed for monkeys to throw poop at...the UI and page layout should still be well-organized, crisp, polished and functional.

    Plus...after looking at the site...I still have NO IDEA what the point of it is. This should be obvious within 5-10 seconds of arriving at the site. Web-design 101!!!
  • mrfunkleberrymrfunkleberry Member Posts: 424
    I'm on the floor! "the site is designed for monkeys to throw poop at" damn it, i want that site!
  • JGary321JGary321 Member Posts: 1,246
    I agree with what synthesis said.

    WB synthesis.
  • cmasterenkocmasterenko Member Posts: 52
    I really appreciate all the input and will be updating the UI and features as this is just a beta release of the site and the site has been up less than 24 hours.
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    Beta schmeta. You put a site out and asked everyone to jump on your band wagon. We all take a look at the wagon and its missing 2 wheels, the axel is cracked and your team of horses appear sickly and tired.

    You say that you are the world's greatest thing in app marketing ever to be created and you show us a site that instilled little confidence in anyone so far.

    Our apps are our babies. We aren't going to hand over our babies to a babysitter that appears to be inebriated, unbathed and reeking of ripe cheese.

    If you are at all professional...then show it...because what I see so far says anything but that. I'm not trying to be a dick here...just honest. You've got a good URL...take advantage of it and put together a site that is visually respectable. Then maybe people will take you seriously.
  • StormtrixStormtrix Member Posts: 256
    I looked at the new site - and now i'm blind..
    my eyes !!!!!

    i back up what wayne and synth said..
    saladgamers is professional looking and polished and easy to navigate.
    seriously though, hotapptoday just looking at instills no confidence the site and team behind it.
    I know you're probably a really caring person and really want to help out the GS community but i really think you should go back to the drawing board.
    With a line in the sand - i'm on the saladgamers side :)
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    @Wayne...
    Metatags are irrelevant now. Bots look at content and web relevance. The bots are much more sophisticated now in how they scan data and Metatags were abused in the past making them a poor way of cataloging a site...and are thus pretty much ignored by the bots.

    The way to gain bot relevance and search results positioning is through external 3rd party linking to your site. The logic is...the more people that link to you...the more important you must be.
  • SingleSparqSingleSparq Member Posts: 1,339
    synthesis said:
    Beta schmeta. You put a site out and asked everyone to jump on your band wagon. We all take a look at the wagon and its missing 2 wheels, the axel is cracked and your team of horses appear sickly and tired.

    You say that you are the world's greatest thing in app marketing ever to be created and you show us a site that instilled little confidence in anyone so far.

    Our apps are our babies. We aren't going to hand over our babies to a babysitter that appears to be inebriated, unbathed and reeking of ripe cheese.

    If you are at all professional...then show it...because what I see so far says anything but that. I'm not trying to be a dick here...just honest. You've got a good URL...take advantage of it and put together a site that is visually respectable. Then maybe people will take you seriously.

    That was brutal, just brutal (yet funny) synthesis - but I agree. Been designing/developing sites for 10 years and I can cringe at my early work and the design rules I broke.

    If I'm paying for something via a website (especially if it's showcasing my work) I expect it to look professional. So my advice is don't try to do it all yourself - and if your not designing it - DON'T have your neighbours nephew's brother who knows "web stuff" design it.

    Put out some bucks for a real design or use a Content Management system (I recommend Joomla) where there are plenty of free or cheap templates for your to choose from - if you know your way around CSS you can customize them to be different.

    For my site (coming soon) I decided not to design it but buy a nice template so I could concentrate on the content and games I'm making. But any way you slice it - if it looks like a myspace page you will not attract the client you may want.
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  • BarkBarkCoBarkBarkCo Member Posts: 1,400
    Not to mention that Apple will probably rip him one for using the iPad as his main/only "design" element!
  • firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
    Not that it matters at all, but cmasterenko is a her, not a him.

    Websites promoting out games are great!
    The more, the better. I appreciate everyone's efforts.
    And marketing one's games is tough.
    We can use all the help we can get!

    But, like stated above, the graphic design could use some work.
  • chosenonestudioschosenonestudios Member Posts: 1,714
    @cmasterenko what the hell do you have to say about this!!?????

    http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=6966

    I hope your gs account is immediately and permanently revoked!

    If you can't beat them, steal em???

    Is that your business model?

    That is totally unacceptable!

    Pull down your offers for the website right now!

    And maybe, just maybe you'll be left with some decency...

    FYI Your clone won't work anyway because Mr. Funks site is tied to our GS accounts....

    And if you think Gendai will let you have that you are sorely mistaken....

    Congratulations you are now... officially.... the most hated person on this website!
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    So this was your solution to improving your UI? Hi-jack saladgamers?
    Good luck with that.

    What a jackoff!

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  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
    Take the site down you lil' punk ass
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