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Show HN: Dynamic perler patterns (fuse bead recipes)

13 points by beadifier 8y ago

relyks 8y ago
What is this? There's no explanation anywhere lol.
- beadifier 8y ago
  Beadifier Recipes is a recipe site for making perler bead (ironing bead) art :) It's built upon the Beadifier platform (application for making fuse bead patterns from images): https://www.beadifier.com https://www.beadifier.com More info here: https://www.facebook.com/beadifier/ https://www.facebook.com/beadifier/
oeuviz 8y ago
Neat idea! But any pixel art / 8-bit art editor or image works just as good.
- beadifier 8y ago
  Fair point. I'll argue that the power of Beadifier lies in the ability to choose from actual bead manufacturer palettes, like Hama, Perler, etc. Also, the core dithering algorithm actively squeezes as much realism as possible out of the colors of beads available.
Tepix 8y ago
For some reason the iframe with the image isn't rendered on Firefox 62 ESR. When i open it individually, it works.
- beadifier 8y ago
  That's weird. There should be no blocking. What browser are you using?
dominicr 8y ago
I had no idea what this was until I clicked around a bit so I was going to make a couple of suggestions for your home page (like explaining what it does and linking straight to the app) but I see that you have a 'pro' home page that has more content, so this looks very much like a work in progress. You might need to do more to drive people to the free version to try before they buy. Have you considered different payment plans, like one offs? Also when an image is uploaded it'd be good if the image aspect ratio was preserved so that it isn't distorted.
- beadifier 8y ago
  Thanks for the reply :) Yeah, I guess there really is not much in the way of explanation. The Recipes site is very much a sort of springboard for the Beadifier app, to get users accustomed to the idea. Payment plans is a big headache, to be honest. There seems to be no surefire way to do it. I went with a subscription plan because that seemed reasonable at the time. The free version is supposed to be fully featured enough to cater to most needs, though. I don't want to alienate those who are opposed to paying monthly, but I still want to keep that as an option so I can keep the lights on(!) Auto aspect ratio is on my to-do list : )
  - dominicr 8y ago
    I see. As you're going down the freemium model really push the free service to get people using it and wanting more. If there was an easy and consistent answer to pricing models a lot more people would still be in business! Especially for a hobby based service. I don't know how much market research you've done but even asking on forums would be a good way to get an idea. Monthly commitments are full on for people to make. How about bundles of uses? Like 10 uses for a few dollars?

13 points by beadifier 8y ago

relyks 8y ago

What is this? There's no explanation anywhere lol.

beadifier 8y ago
Beadifier Recipes is a recipe site for making perler bead (ironing bead) art :) It's built upon the Beadifier platform (application for making fuse bead patterns from images): https://www.beadifier.com https://www.beadifier.com More info here: https://www.facebook.com/beadifier/ https://www.facebook.com/beadifier/

oeuviz 8y ago

Neat idea! But any pixel art / 8-bit art editor or image works just as good.

beadifier 8y ago
Fair point. I'll argue that the power of Beadifier lies in the ability to choose from actual bead manufacturer palettes, like Hama, Perler, etc. Also, the core dithering algorithm actively squeezes as much realism as possible out of the colors of beads available.

Tepix 8y ago

For some reason the iframe with the image isn't rendered on Firefox 62 ESR. When i open it individually, it works.

beadifier 8y ago
That's weird. There should be no blocking. What browser are you using?

dominicr 8y ago

I had no idea what this was until I clicked around a bit so I was going to make a couple of suggestions for your home page (like explaining what it does and linking straight to the app) but I see that you have a 'pro' home page that has more content, so this looks very much like a work in progress. You might need to do more to drive people to the free version to try before they buy. Have you considered different payment plans, like one offs? Also when an image is uploaded it'd be good if the image aspect ratio was preserved so that it isn't distorted.

beadifier 8y ago
Thanks for the reply :) Yeah, I guess there really is not much in the way of explanation. The Recipes site is very much a sort of springboard for the Beadifier app, to get users accustomed to the idea. Payment plans is a big headache, to be honest. There seems to be no surefire way to do it. I went with a subscription plan because that seemed reasonable at the time. The free version is supposed to be fully featured enough to cater to most needs, though. I don't want to alienate those who are opposed to paying monthly, but I still want to keep that as an option so I can keep the lights on(!) Auto aspect ratio is on my to-do list : )
- dominicr 8y ago
  I see. As you're going down the freemium model really push the free service to get people using it and wanting more. If there was an easy and consistent answer to pricing models a lot more people would still be in business! Especially for a hobby based service. I don't know how much market research you've done but even asking on forums would be a good way to get an idea. Monthly commitments are full on for people to make. How about bundles of uses? Like 10 uses for a few dollars?