Appdilly.com

[xcandiottix]

Hello,

 

I've been working on this project for about six months and I've stalled out on it for the past few weeks. I'd like to share this with the community to get some feedback in order to get that spark back.

 

Please visit: http://www.appdilly.com

 

The basis of this site formed from all the great apps I'd see people develop here only to have it located on www.myserver.com/tests/myapps/hiddenfolder/myawesomeapp.php. I thought maybe I could create a platform for app designs to upload their apps into a social networking environment where people could actually install apps onto their profile page. Apps could range from chat boxes, messaging, and photo albums to e-stores, blogs, and galleries. In order to protect privacy, each user has an UMDOT (Unified Member Data Output Table) .. basically a uniform location for users to share information. Applications may access the UMDOT in order to customize themselves to the user. User's may or may not input information into the UMDOT, thus keeping it private.

 

To see a test account please use:

username: test_account

password: testing

 

I'd like your opinions or criticisms regarding the entire site as well as it's possible usefulness. 

 

Anyone who would like to help populate the site with apps would also be greatly welcomed.

 

Thanks!

[nano]

I love the concept behind your creation but I am not sure the site actually sells the story like you did in this post.

 

My comments are from a usability/design perspective and not from the backend accounts way etc.

 

As said, the concept is great - I was thinking of building something similar myself a few months ago but haven't found the time.

 

For you, I would look at the Dribble concept/project:

 

http://dribbble.com/

 

It's a place designers can show off their latest designs - the site is invitation only, to keep the standards high. You should maybe look at how that site functions and how the layout currently works. Try and have something simple and clean that can tell users exactly what you site is for and what it does.

 

Another site with a similar concept is Forrst:

 

http://forrst.com/

 

Again, invitation only - a place where designers and developers can show off their ideas.

 

For me, the user interface is key to attract new users and keep old ones. So have a look at the sites above and I would suggest reworking your current design concept to fit within their realms.

 

Good luck with it.

[xcandiottix]

Thank you for taking the time to review the site. I think I didn't explain very well in my initial post that appdilly is, at it's simplest, a social networking site for anyone to use. This differs from the web pages you provided because I'm not trying to only attract developers, but instead the general public. I'd like appdilly to be able to essentially 'morph' into whatever a site member needs their profile to be. So for example, some who is a blogger can just install a blogging app on to their member page. A photographer could install a gallery app on to their member page. A photo journalist could install a gallery and blog if they choose. A key point to this is that it would take me years of development to create enough apps to satisfy the site's members so I thought I would make app creation open ended. This way site users and app creators have a symbiotic relationship on the site, and the site can be ever evolving based on the needs of members and the creativity of app designers.

 

I think it's very hard to summarize this site  because it's trying to be a lot of things at once. Maybe this is even overwhelming to a new visitor to the site so I agree with you that I have to give a very clearly defined message of 'this is what it is, this is what it does.'

 

Additionally, I viewed your "Red Dot Inc" site. In practice, if you as an app designer approached appdilly into order to provide an app .. say your app "Run Rabbit" .. your advantage would be a distribution point for your application. Users would benefit because they could install "Run Rabbit" onto appdilly and play it. Because of the UMDOT system, your application would be able to welcome users by name. For instance, if I installed "Run Rabbit" on my appdilly page, your application could communicate to the UMDOT and show "Hello Keith, ready to play?" on the opening screen. A visitor to my page would see "Hello John Doe, ready to play?". I hate to use this example, but think facebook combined with iphones app store. Maybe this makes the direction of the site a little more clear?

 

Thanks for the critique, it really helped!

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