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Have a root homepage

It is more important to have a consistent design applied everywhere, however minimal, than something fancy here and there, and others painfully untouched.

Use your own custom domain (no herokuapps.com subdomain)

Don't have any unstyled pages, no matter how insignificant.

Make your overall text size big

Ask another student to walk through your app, give them instructions beforehand, and watch them do this on their own, without help. See where they struggle to understand features. Return this favor!

Write a killer README covering concept, features, technologies and a bunch of future todos (even if it's unlikely you'll ever do it, it shows that you have thought about better ways to implement features, etc.)

Have well groomed seed data (real world stuff, no lorem ipsum)

It is very important when demoing your app that when you do actions, like save, befriend, delete, modify, etc. something visually happens on the page to acknowledge the action. This is important user feedback and is crucial for any serious web app.

Add error handling

Currently everything is running on UTC.

Have a guest account (or two, if you need both to demo)

Add helpful tips of a sentence here and there on the spot in your app to guide the user through your app. This makes your implemented features extra obvious.

Style :hover actions of input, buttons and links, to show you can click on things. More visual feedback!

should have had them from the start. >_<

right now it'll delete the whole thing with no warning and no way to get it back. Maybe an undo feature.

Add flash messages to acknowledge saves, etc.

Have buttons to fill out complex forms while demoing (with nice seed data)

Have a one to three sentences statement on your homepage describing your app ('A Tumblr clone', 'A Rap Genius clone to annotate dolphin sounds' etc. Make it painfully obvious what your app does at first glance. You do not have to be witty. Use a big font size. This will look cool and be clear to employers with squirrel attention spans.)

Style your input, textarea and button tags (use the same size font, color, etc. as the rest of your app, else they stick out like a sore thumb)