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Docked.com, an instant web presence for apps

by Cantdog on 7/22/13, 4:59 PM with 8 comments

  • by Cantdog on 7/22/13, 4:59 PM

    Hey all,

    One of the founders of Docked here.

    We're building a hosted platform to help apps manage their web presence. To start we're including beautiful landing pages with a built in CMS, marketing campaign support (so you can track how users find your app through the web) and a unified dashboard that unifies your web funnel with all your app store data. Later, we'll support fully custom designs, but we'll still take care of the analytics, hosting, internationalization and more.

    We're launching early this fall, and would love to hear from you if you're building/have built an app. How can we help?

    There's also some goodies if you subscribe :)

    Thanks,

    Charlie

  • by RandallBrown on 7/22/13, 5:34 PM

    This is what App.net was originally doing before they pivoted to a status update service.

    Their sites are still live for apps created before the pivot. http://app.net/toto

    It provided lots of the stuff it looks like you're planning on doing. I'm excited to get something like this back. I loved App.net and was sad to here they were killing the original idea.

  • by monkey_slap on 7/22/13, 5:28 PM

    Really curious about this. Building landing pages and such is the biggest pain the ass for me when I just want to build a fun app (usually a side project) and launch it. I hate the idea of every site looking the same, so I really hope you include a healthy amount of customization. It would be amazing to have a customizable page that I can deploy in less than an hour. My latest project involves customers that are absolutely _not_ in the tech world, so a page that everyone else has isn't even a bad thing because they wont notice.

    Two other things I'm very curious about: pricing and domain names. Any hints or insight to pricing models? And will my apps have their own domain name or a subdomain like myapp.docked.com?

    I'm looking forward to this, if you're looking for some testers or just feedback get at me on Twitter @_ryannystrom.