Hi Gordon, I quite like it and agree with the direction your taking with visualizing mathematical concepts. Based on my experience (see my intro post coming soon) I strongly agree with Fergus that it will be difficult to monetize as a stand alone product. Having said that my experience with selling direct to parents is limited.
Mohamad On Saturday, June 16, 2012 4:09:35 PM UTC+10, Fergus Barker wrote: > > I love it, the concept is intuitive, and the multiple boxes gives it so > many options, and extensive uses. I think though monetization of > educational products is always difficult given the way the field often > lends itself to free products. I think your best bet would be incorporating > it into other educational packages though if monetizing it is a priority. > On Jun 16, 2012 1:53 PM, "gord" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi SBers, >> >> As a side project I developed a web app which helps young people learn >> multiplication in a visual way by drawing rectangles in color. >> >> My young son and I were making a lot of rectangles on squared paper to >> learn the times tables. This approach seems to lead naturally into >> concepts like a(b+c) = ab+ac and prime numbers aswell, so I felt there >> should be some interactive version of it somewhere. I googled around but >> couldn't find any website that did this in a visual way, so I decided to do >> a prototype for our own use 'in-house'. >> >> After some iteration, this resulted in The Doctor X Amazing Griddable >> Multiplication Contraption <http://treeblurb.com/doctorx/calc.html> :] >> >> Its currently at MVP stage, so usable but not yet feature-rich. Works ok >> on iPad, Android and modern desktop web browsers such as recent Chrome & >> Firefox [ ie. not IE for now ]. Heres some >> backgrounder<http://quantblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/kids-multiplication-visual-calculator-doctorx-times-tables>about >> how the app idea came about. >> >> Feedback from parents and educators has been positive - they seem to >> immediately grok the idea, so the responses have been along the lines of >> "lurrve it.. now can you add features W, X,Y, Z" >> >> Anyway, my question is - how to monetize this in a way thats organic, >> fits the demographic and allows me to set aside time to give it the ongoing >> development love it deserves - so I can serve the needs of parents, >> teachers and kids to learn real math in a fun way. I considered >> crowd-funding via Kickstarter,com, but I hear thats US only. >> >> My loose plan is to add some paid tutorials/worksheet 'ebooks' and roll >> out to Android and iPad app stores. Im looking to do some guest posts on >> education blogs/forums to help spread the word. >> >> Ideas? >> >> cheers, >> >> gordon anderson >> st kilda >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach >> Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more >> >> Forum rules >> 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. >> 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs >> >> >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
