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Show HN: Developed a small web-app in 6 days. Help me make it better.

by alance on 3/25/12, 3:44 PM with 9 comments

Less than a week ago, my co-worker suggested an idea for a small web app: Put your waiting lists online. We fleshed out some plans and put together who-next.com.

It doesn't revolutionize the world or anything, and it will be very surprising if it makes a cent, but it's up and live and I'm proud of it - not too bad for a week of work.

Feel free to login with u/p: demo/demo and tell me what you think - any suggested improvements are particularly appreciated.

  • by alance on 3/25/12, 4:19 PM

    I'm happy to answer any technical questions about the app. It's pretty boring though, LAMP stack, jQuery.

    The other thing I would kill for is any ideas on how to market this. How to market it, and to whom. I can run around to all the local creches and nurseries with flyers etc, but in terms of online marketing... I don't have a lot of ideas.

  • by deepkut on 3/25/12, 4:52 PM

    >We remove all the drudgery in managing lists manually. At $4.95 per queue...

    I wouldn't put a price tag in the description so quickly. Most won't understand what you're up to until 3-4 sentences in, and you're already asking for money.

    Hope that is helpful.

  • by yunus on 3/25/12, 3:55 PM

    i think the app is good may be a little bit of the design improvement and making the app completely free will grub some attentions. may be making it as service with apis to queue from a java scripts which can be used in static sites

  • by stevejalim on 3/25/12, 4:03 PM