The Holding Page was Broken - Duh!
In this video, we talk about how we screwed up the holding page. We were rushed to put it up and made a school boy error on the PHP. Goes to show that everyone makes mistakes!
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What’s a holding page?
Comment by Some random guy — May 10, 2006 @ 2:41 pm
A holding page is the page that you put up on the url (in this case http://www.heyamigo.net) when the app isn’t quite ready to launch yet.
Comment by Gillian Carson — May 10, 2006 @ 3:14 pm
Do you think it’s essential to get a holding page up straight away, even if you’re months away from launch, no-one knows about your URL yet etc?
Comment by John Topley — May 10, 2006 @ 4:44 pm
hmmm… good question. I think you should give people the opportunity to be e-mailed when the app launches. Hey, if they’re interested and you have an application to tell them about then why not?
We put up a holding page for Vitamin and by the time we launched we had over 5000 people on the list. This gave it a great boost on launch day.
Plus Amigo is only two month’s away from launch (22nd June remember!) - or at least that’s the plan.
Comment by Gillian Carson — May 10, 2006 @ 5:01 pm
I saw the 403 error, but figured this is cutting edge - as it happens stuff :
Im really enjoying this story as it evolves, having been involved in countless projects of various sizes in all kinds of industries.
Comment by miles — May 10, 2006 @ 8:44 pm
Hey, firstly i’d really like too say thanks, you guys have really taught me a lot about how to go about launching a web app, i plan to be lauching one during the summer, i have a pretty good idea, the thing is im a 17 year old developer and i dont really have a lot of money, i can code/design etc, just wondering if you might have any tips for me about how to get the project going, marketting etc, one of the reasons im making the app is to try and raise a bit of cash for when i goto university next year to study computer science.
Thanks again,
James.
Comment by James Deer — May 10, 2006 @ 10:27 pm
Hey,
I have read all of your posts and watched the videos, and I found it really interesting to watch how the project progressed. Have you guys actually told us what the app will do? I have read just about everything, and I haven’t found anything on what the app is going to do.
Look forward to updates, and best of luck! You have provided a good starting point for my own project :)
Michael
Comment by Michael — May 11, 2006 @ 12:51 am
You guys are funny. I love how this explanation was given over a bowl of cereal. Excellent.
Comment by Steven — May 11, 2006 @ 2:27 am
Boring.
Comment by Fred F — May 11, 2006 @ 2:32 pm
We haven’t revealed what the web app does yet, because we need to keep it private until we get closer to launch. We have to be careful about people stealing the idea! :)
Comment by Ryan Carson — May 12, 2006 @ 8:39 am