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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #60 on: March 16, 2011, 06:57:14 pm »
Quote from: Qwerty.55 on March 16, 2011, 06:51:07 pm
I don't see this debate ending without us actually testing the app idea, so how about we hold a contest and put the winners of the contest in a test store?
about selling?
I don't think people would mind losing a buck or two.
I think that the problem would be that people don't want to take the time to buy it.  I hate downloading programs just because of ti-connect.  Buying would just make things worse.
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« Reply #61 on: March 16, 2011, 07:52:30 pm »
I think an idea like this is feasible, but requires signifigant knowledge of calculator and computer programming.  I'll come back to you guys in a while with a full writeup of how this could potentially work, and perhaps some demos.  Let me take over from here - this kind of thing is what I do for a living.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #62 on: March 16, 2011, 08:10:01 pm »
Perhaps we can buy a demo of Knight OS?
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #63 on: March 16, 2011, 08:17:16 pm »
Naw, I've got some ideas.  Let me get them written down, and we can go from there.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #64 on: March 16, 2011, 08:23:57 pm »
I like this idea of a gCn powered app store. Of course, making people buy software is a kinda bad idea IMHO, I dunno who said this, perhaps DJ, but our games should remain free, but still, the concept is a good idea :P
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« Reply #65 on: March 16, 2011, 08:35:26 pm »
Well, of course lots of software will be free, and a generous portion of the profits will go to the developer.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #66 on: March 16, 2011, 08:41:44 pm »
I say ads as it is the best way to do it :/
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #67 on: March 16, 2011, 08:53:58 pm »
Kerm was planning a calc software repository hosted on one of his servers accessible from gCn. He mentioned it (at least in) my ticalc.org package manager thread on Cemetech:

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...I'm interested in building a file transfer / FTP-type CALCnet2.2 app, and if I do, I may implement some extended form of your software to enable calculators to directly browse ticalc.org and download software.

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Well, I'm imagining something running entirely on my server, so that there's just one centralized source for files.  It would present an FTP-like hierarchy of files to the user, and when the user chose to fetch a particular .zip, it would be responsible for opening the zip, extracting the *.8x* files, and passing each such file to the client over gCn.

Not sure quite what point I'm trying to make here with that :P.

But I feel like the only people who would actually buy the calculator software in this case would be people who wanted to support Omnimaga (or the developers, I guess?). Yeah, people do sell calc software, but the target is not usually members of the calc community. It's people who think a $15 dollar suite of BASIC math programs for the 83+ is an "Operating System".

And having an entirely free alternative that works the same way (i.e. over gCn, thus requiring DoorsCS, but accessing all of ticalc.org) probably won't help.

So as I said, I really only see people who would be donating money anyway actually buying the software.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #68 on: March 16, 2011, 09:11:40 pm »
Ok I have a suggestion for this: cafe press! I think that if we can set up a store there and offer calculator accessories that have our branding on them, then we could get some revenue :D
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #69 on: March 16, 2011, 09:34:05 pm »
* Xeda112358 searches for this cafe press

EDIT:Ah, cool, I like that idea :D
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #70 on: March 16, 2011, 09:48:37 pm »
I like cafepress simply because of this shirt. Of course, I'm typically the one snickering at the people who wear these types of shirts when they're trying to find an analytical solution that doesn't exist and I was finished approximating one ten minutes ago :P

It's actually happened before >.>
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #71 on: March 16, 2011, 10:18:43 pm »
Yeah, I setup a cafepress or something similar once... It's kinda fun.
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« Reply #72 on: March 16, 2011, 10:19:03 pm »
So I've been thinking about an app store-style thing for calculators for a while now, this just provides a great excuse to follow through with it :) I'm working on some stuff, and some of the information will be released to the public soon.  For now, just know some exciting stuff is on the way :)
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #73 on: March 16, 2011, 10:23:16 pm »
Sounds very exciting, Sir. :P
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #74 on: March 16, 2011, 10:25:37 pm »
Well, I have a considerably sized document in progress with "CONFIDENTIAL" in a large watermark across it ;)
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