I'm building a math practice site covering topics from simple arithmetic to second order differential equations. The idea is that to get better at (or intuit) math you have to practice. I'm trying to incorporate some Skinner Box techniques to make studying easier. I hope it's helpful and I'd love to hear your feedback: https://studycounts.com
A math practice website called https://studycounts.com. I’m trying to combine randomly generated math practice problems with addictive Skinner box-ish gaming elements. Skinner box for self improvement is the idea.
I'd hoped to make something for the "lazy developer." I use the service for counts that don't fit in to any of my apps models, because it's easy to create new counts (just change the URL), and because it exposes the count via GET and JSON I can easily implement the count into my dashboard. Mostly I use it for A/B Testing, aka counting impressions and conversions.
I'd also hoped to add additional value with charts, built in A/B Bayesian calculator, and webhooks/callbacks when a count reaches a certain value (yet to be implemented).
But I see your point, and I certainly worry about the market size here.
The catalyst for this project is my frustration with popular tracking and A/B testing products being overly cumbersome. I'm not sure how many developers share my frustration, but my hope is there is a market for a simple RESTful counting and AB testing API.
I created a similar MVP about 4 years ago and dropped the project in favor of another. Since that time I've decided to take another stab at it, this time focusing more on how the API can be used for marketing research.
I hacked this site together to help me purchase gift cards that my friends and family can use easily, and not have to drive out of their way to redeem. I feel like the messaging of what the site does is hard to convey, but I hope you find it useful.
This is interesting, but I wonder what the results would be if you compared the dog, and baby, to your best friend. In other words, I wonder if the dog would have closer matching results to the baby, or the friend.
Accidental product success, followed by accidental PR success. Half of HN would kill for this kind of luck, and this poor guy doesn't want it... Which makes it even more interesting!
I think it's a brilliant idea. Popular estimator sites are making real passive income, in that there's not much work to be done after launching. The snag is this market is saturated and there is a low barrier to entry to keep competitors out. That said, I've never seen a site take an average of the most popular estimator sites. I think it's a clever angle, and it certainly creates the perception of a more accurate result. I'd use your site over your competitors.
Your challenge is going to be in gaining market share. Meaning, you need to rank high in Google! Or spread virally. That'll be tough, but I think you can do it with this angle.
Not even kidding, people have suggested I add a "shoot your friends to unfollow them" feature to Friend or Follow as a joke. There's nothing new under the sun.
Great implementation. Maybe default the music to off.
Yeah, see I'm kind of torn, because GET just makes it so dang simple. POST requests, though semantically correct, add a small amount of overhead to implementing the counter. I'm not really concerned with spiders, as the URLs are intended to be obscure + robots.txt. In addition, future versions could include simple basic auth for private URLs. Though I intend to keep public URLs around for fun and drive by counting.