Robert Scoble rips into Color

There are no second chances on app stores. If you launch, get featured (top billing & visibility in app store), and have terrible initial reviews (1,2,3 stars), odds are you won't get featured again, which will make it extremely difficult to gain traction organically as your app improves, since you're now competing with "five hundred thousand other apps" for eyeballs down in the pile.

First reaction to your app is hugely important now, not like a website 'where you can come back and come back again'.

He compares to Path and some other apps, Path had same problem - bad first experience. No one else in Half Moon Bay using these local photo apps yet, so useless there on launch (and presumably anywhere else there aren't many initial local users). Foodspotting on the other hand had pics from the middle of Montana.

Problem when you take so much money ($41 million for Color.com), too much pressure to go large on first night, leading to disaster in this case. Should have done what Foursquare did - limit launch to SF and NYC, make sure it works, get alot of content and traction there, then scale it out.

Hundreds of entrepreneurs emailing Scoble with competing apps, most of which are better.

Adam Lisagor needs to eat too, you know.

tl;dr would receive my upvote