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I'm guessing that this isn't referring to an IPO and a more accurate title might be "LaunchSky now open to the public"?

Really good input - sorry about that. Unfortunately, this is NOT referencing an IPO :)

I can't seem to change it on my own, will try to get in touch with an mod.

If there is a mod reading this, please adjust the title to: "Starting from HN Post, LaunchSky now open to the public"

Also believed IPO at first sight, +1 for changing title.

Sorry again about that, definitely confusing/misleading.

I emailed info@ycombinator.com with the request - it seems to be the only access to mod email.

If there is a way I can edit the title on my own, or someone else I can get in touch with to mod it, please let me know.

Update - they changed the title to just "LaunchSky". Less misleading, yes - but also not very encouraging for a click through or upvote.

No one knows what LaunchSky is yet, that's a part of the reason we're posting here.

I'm very disappointed with how they handled this.

It definitely didn't turn me off from learning more, it was just a little confusing. It looks like a neat platform!

I like the site, and participating in project comment threads. I haven't posted any of my own ideas, but I like that I can earn credit to post it for free by commenting enough.

The value of the site depends on having critical mass of knowledgeable people discussing the pitches, but they are slowly increasing the number of projects and the people participating, and it seems like most pitches have at least some worthwhile discussion.

I tested it and it was nice. The feedback was both encouraging and providing some hints of strong and weak points of my idea.

Thanks! These are the kinds of things we love to hear, but please let us know what suggestions you have for bettering the experience and/or idea validation process from your side.

This is a really interesting concept. Whenever engaging in conversation about an app or startup idea, there's usually poor knowledge/idea transfer through solely text. Visuals really help, and I'm really glad LaunchSky addressed that.

Has there been much thought into placing ideas within specific categories? While I appreciate the feedback (good or bad) from anyone with actual startup experience who's gone "through the wringer," I would rather get feedback from an expert within the field or industry I'm trying to penetrate.

I think they have been throttling pitch submissions and user invitations, to manage the rollout/launch. Presumably after they got to a critical mass of of users and ideas, they could start categorizing.

Very intriguing platform with great initial traction since launch. Robust feedback on LaunchSky could really help sharpen focus and skip a few concept iterations when initially designing a product.

Thanks for the kind words -- if there's anything you think we can do to better the experience for the users, or more importantly: get a better sense of validation for the ideas coming through LaunchSky, we're all ears.

Please feel free to email us: info@launchsky.com

We've been known to give free submissions credits for feedback :)

There is an uncaught syntax error coming out of jQuery when you try and click the payment button with text in the promo code field. I'm assuming this is because I didn't have a valid coupon when hitting `retrieveCoupon` but still, it should display an error message instead of just "not working".

Thanks for the catch - much appreciated. We'll get this in our queue :)

Mods - I noticed the title got changed to just "LaunchSky" and we're now #53 -- in a matter of seconds, and off of the front page instantly??

HN posts mean a lot to apps like ours. Can you please let us know why the title was changed as so and what caused the downvotes?

While it's very disappointing to jump from the top 10 to way behind in all rankings now, it's also something we would like to avoid in the future.

Please let us know what caused this.

I almost wonder if there is a bot that changes post titles to match the <title> or <h1> of the linked page.

What you could do is write a blog post about your launch, with some interesting statistics or results LaunchSky has driven so far, title the post to whatever you'd like to appear here, and then submit that to HN.

It might be just because the OP linked to "launchsky.com/#" but if I follow that link, then click your logo ("launchsky.com"), then I can no longer come back to Hacker News via the back button -- it just endlessly cycles between those two pages.

good catch -- precaution on my end for potentially later linking to home if we have a further release or something like that.

I didn't realize it could trigger something like that, and not sure if that is the cause, but perhaps it was.

Looks great, may want to consider boosting the greys across the board. Looks like this was designed on a Mac which has a great contrast ratio, but even then, it was pretty hard to read everything.

Grey on grey text on the FAQ page is hard to read (for me, at least).

After reg'ing I now see that the same grey on grey is used everywhere, combined with bright blue links.

Slightly more contract please.

This is very helpful feedback to hear - thank you.

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