6 comments, 3 of which are first posts of users exclaiming how great it is?
EDIT: To add something about the site: seems interesting and like something I might use occasionally. The fact that you are bay area only is to be expected, but should be more prominent to see (if you just look at the front page and then click "Start today" you get to the page for entering billing information, delivery address etc without getting that info)
Thats a great point -- and the sales channels we use are limited to SF Bay Area people -- so it would be redundant, but you're spot on -- once we start using other channels (HN for example) we need to make that more explicit. Our bad on that.
We were so excited about the fellow ship application that we asked our customers to join in. A lot of them are in tech but they didn't have a hn account.
FYI getting everyone you know to post comments and votes gets submissions flagged into oblivion where nobody else sees them, unless it happens automatically via spam prevention filters:
Can I ask people to upvote my submission?
No. Users should vote for a story because it's
intellectually interesting, not because someone is
promoting it.
When the software detects a voting ring, it penalizes the
post. Accounts that vote like this eventually get their
votes ignored.
Also worth nothing is the votes-to-comments ratio, if you reply to everything you will trigger a penalty designed to minimize contentious issues which occurs when more comments than votes happen.
You might like to try resubmitting without orchestrating any activity as this submission's been penalized and is no longer well positioned in 'show' or anywhere else.
EDIT: To add something about the site: seems interesting and like something I might use occasionally. The fact that you are bay area only is to be expected, but should be more prominent to see (if you just look at the front page and then click "Start today" you get to the page for entering billing information, delivery address etc without getting that info)