Comments on: Bingo Card Creator Goes Web 2.0

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:42:30 +0000

Dan, it has the same limit as the downloadable version: it can only print out 15 cards from a word list in trial mode.

Also, it watermarks printouts made in trial mode, something the downloadable version has never done. See here:

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/pdf/words-beginning-with-pl.pdf

The business model is the same as always: sell licenses. I am not selling subscriptions yet, although I might revisit that decision if there is customer demand for it.

By: DanH

DanH — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:10:17 +0000

How are you limiting the online version? Or are you planning on offering it on a subscription basis only? In other words, how are you planning to make money with it? You may have covered this previously. If so, sorry for missing it.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:46:10 +0000

Thanks guys. Sorry for the system crash during the first day of the sneak peek — I had some unanticipated difficulty with my slice. (Slicehost support continues to amaze me — we got through a truly arcane Linux issue together in under an hour.)

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:09:29 +0000

Connection refused for me, too. BTW, sneak peek has two e’s. Congrats on the release! 800 ms seems like it would be an eternity.

By: Dr.Cover

Dr.Cover — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:08:50 +0000

Patrick, I also cannot access neither of your sites. As for AJAX, I’d recommend to go with jQuery library. There are tones of samples and it’s very easy to learn and to build sophisticated Web apps in a shortest time. Still, looking forward to try your web-bingo when it gets accessible.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:17:10 +0000

Currently I cannot see you webpage at all?!
Neither the normal site or the staging. Is your server down or something?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:30:31 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. Here are my issues:

It is possible to put any number of words in a word list, from zero to “lots”. I have customers who use hundreds, for reasons which become quickly apparent if you play bingo with a group of several hundred people. (Yay, Fortune 500 retreats.) I don’t want to cut users off after N elements in the table. Similarly, I don’t want them to feel that they have to fill every element in the table right now before proceeding, because they don’t.

By: HS

HS — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:40:36 +0000

Hi,

A quick suggestion:
The current online system is usable and easy to understand so that’s good.
But I think you could make it better by just laying out a table (over the full screen) and let them edit the individual cells in-place.
Keep a title box on top and save\print buttons on the side.
You don’t need a two-step process then.
Each time they perform an edit and leave the cell, you can commit that change with an ajax call.

I will confess though, that I’m not your typical use case for creating bingo cards so take what I say with a grain of salt.