I have recently released a chrome extension and it is at present getting about 3 upvotes a week. Not as many as hoped, but still not bad.

However, this may not be enough to get it into the apps tab (which is required for the competition) and I feel that it would be nice for my application to be at least considered. I assume that many other people feel the same way.

However, something released several months ago, even if it averaged less votes a week, would still make it into the apps tab.

(I am now off to upvote every app I think worthy, especially the ones with less than 6 votes)