Hey Everyone,
I've recently been working on a web application that reviews Facebook Games and Applications. The idea is to be a "yelp" for facebook games. I am starting the focus on FB games and apps because unlike other application stores, the FB app store does not exist. Thus, I would be adding value to an extremely inefficient market. After that, I would like to move into other application markets. For now, my product, AppRankings, aims to be the premier site for Facebook game and application discovery. Here is the beta version on facebook:
http://apps.facebook.com/apprankings/?ref=tpt
Many of you probably do not play FB games, but FB games are now making over 3 billion a year of rev and social games are expected to make up to 10 billion/year overall. Having worked at a FB game company, I realized that the largest cost was in advertising - user acquisition. With this site, the possibilities in advertising for FB games and apps are endless and can also be made more efficient by offering services such as advertising consulting, analytics, and traffic sharing.
Recently, Facebook took down its reviews on all of its pages, which means that ratings of games and applications are now unknown to users. The reason for getting rid of the reviews was because there was too much spamming in the reviews. Luckily, I’ve had this idea for a few months and have been working on tackling the spam problem. There is still spam, but it is significantly less. I’ve already found countless games and apps that have had thousands of ridiculous 5 star reviews with worthless comments, links to porn sites, or scam ways to earn free credits.
I'll try to keep it short, so check out my blog
www.kenthecow.com if you to learn more about AppRankings or check it out at
http://apps.facebook.com/apprankings/?ref=tpt
PMs are welcome!
kenthecow
sorry if it was tldr! It's my first post in this forum!