Most of what we shipped in September came from one habit: watching where people got stuck while publishing, then taking that step away. Here is what changed, one thing we got wrong, and the three things worth doing this week.
Publishing starts with a link now
Paste your website, a GitHub or YouTube profile, a Substack, or the invite link to your community. AGMAN reads the public page, drafts the name, tagline, description and category, and hands it back to you. Nothing goes live until you have read it.
We were strict about two things. First, it only fills in what the source actually says. If your site doesn't mention pricing, the pricing field stays empty rather than getting a guess. Second, a Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp invite becomes a page named after your community, not after the app it happens to live on.
If you are publishing yourself as a professional, you can bring your details in from LinkedIn instead.
Updates: what is happening this week
Your page says what you do. An Update says what is going on right now: an offer, an event, something that just became available, an announcement. You post it from your dashboard, it shows on your page, it can appear in Updates across AGMAN, and it gets its own link you can share.
The rule of thumb we would give anyone: post an Update when something real happens, not to fill a calendar.
Support and Pulse, explained once
These two get mixed up, so here is the short version.
Support is lasting. It comes from someone with a verified account and stays on your page.
Pulse is about today. One tap, no sign-in, and it counts toward what is trending that day.
Every real page now has a share link for each. Send the Support link to people who already know your work. Keep the Pulse link for launch days and announcements. Or let people do it without leaving your own site, which is the next part.
Collect Pulse and Support on your own website
Most of the people who would back you never see your AGMAN page. They see your website, your README, your portfolio. So we made it possible for them to back you from there.
Open your page in the dashboard, go to Distribution, and you will find the "Featured on AGMAN" badge. Copy the HTML, or the Markdown if it is going into a README, and paste it wherever your visitors already are. It comes in two versions:
- Pulse badge. Shows your Pulses from the last 30 days. A visitor clicks it, lands on a one-step page on AGMAN and gives you a Pulse. No account, no email. One Pulse per visitor per day, with bot and spam protection.
- Support badge. Shows your total Supports. The visitor confirms with their email on AGMAN, so you will get fewer clicks, but every one is a verified person, and that Support stays on your page for good.
Not sure which? Start with Pulse. It is the smaller ask, and on a launch day it gives anyone who likes what you made an easy way to show it. Both come in light and dark styles, and the badge switches on once your page is approved and public.
We stopped counting bots
This one is a little embarrassing. When we looked at where outbound clicks were coming from, almost all of them were crawlers and link-preview fetchers, not people. A click now counts only when a real browser follows your link.
Your click numbers may look smaller from here on. They are also true, and they are the numbers in the new weekly email: every Monday, publishers get a short report of their page's views, clicks and Support.
Easier to find
Every category now has proper subcategory pages, so someone looking for AI agents, courses or fintech lands on a focused page for that topic instead of a filtered search. We also added a Discovery & Distribution category for launch platforms, recommendation engines and distribution networks, and an About page that explains AGMAN in plain words. That last one is mostly for search engines and AI assistants, which kept describing us vaguely.
Fixed
- Discover could hang for 10 to 30 seconds after switching a filter. It doesn't anymore.
- The category buttons on the homepage now go where they say.
- Spotlight and Homepage Boosted only ever show real pages. When a spot is open, the page says it is open instead of filling it with an example.
If you are wondering how paid placement fits alongside all of this, we wrote it up in Earned and paid visibility on AGMAN. The short answer: paid spots are marked and sit in their own sections, and the organic order underneath never changes.
If you only do three things this week
- Open your page and rewrite the first sentence of the description so a stranger gets it in five seconds.
- Post one Update about something you are actually doing this month.
- Put the Pulse badge on your website, and send your Support link to five people who would vouch for you.
October
October is about two things: getting more real products, people and communities onto AGMAN, and making the publisher tools sturdier. If something got in your way in September, tell us. Those notes are where most of this month's changes came from.