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If you're looking for a weekend project - I am teaching myself to program, and decided that an interesting first web app could be a simple program that generate

If you're looking for a weekend project - I am teaching myself to program, and decided that an interesting first web app could be a simple program that generates coupon codes for promotions, and then tracks which coupons are being redeemed (when the user records a redemption). I only know a little programming myself, and have no real familiarity with working with databases or AppEngine, but Django + AppEngine should work (from what I understand about them) for this project. I don't know if this is something you can do within a weekend, but if you are interested in helping a rookie get his feet wet, feel free to contact me. The info is in my profile.

StavrosK 16y ago
Hmm, that does sound interesting. Is this something that other sites can use to create and track promotions, or something users can use to generate coupons? I'm not sure how these things work...
- dkokelley 16y ago
  I thought it would be simpler to just have users (let's call them vendors to distinguish from customers) manually track their redeemed coupons by entering their active coupon codes in the site. The original intent was for brick and mortars (traditionally old fashioned when it comes to these things) to have some help with basic marketing ROI. Of course to expand the functionality to websites, there would have to be an automatic way for the coupons to be 'redeemed'. The basic flow I have so far is: 1. User creates new coupon (give it a name and description) 1a. App generates unique code for coupon and stores the coupon information in a database 1b. (external to app) User uses coupon code to create coupons to be distributed through whatever channels are appropriate (mailings, website, emails, etc.) 2. User received coupon from customer and manually records a redemption (based on the unique code) 2a. App records redemption count to DB 3. App displays statistics of coupon redemption (how many, when, maybe other attributes)
  - StavrosK 16y ago
    That's very interesting and shouldn't be too hard to make, send me an email and we can discuss it further!

StavrosK 16y ago

Hmm, that does sound interesting. Is this something that other sites can use to create and track promotions, or something users can use to generate coupons? I'm not sure how these things work...

dkokelley 16y ago
I thought it would be simpler to just have users (let's call them vendors to distinguish from customers) manually track their redeemed coupons by entering their active coupon codes in the site. The original intent was for brick and mortars (traditionally old fashioned when it comes to these things) to have some help with basic marketing ROI. Of course to expand the functionality to websites, there would have to be an automatic way for the coupons to be 'redeemed'. The basic flow I have so far is: 1. User creates new coupon (give it a name and description) 1a. App generates unique code for coupon and stores the coupon information in a database 1b. (external to app) User uses coupon code to create coupons to be distributed through whatever channels are appropriate (mailings, website, emails, etc.) 2. User received coupon from customer and manually records a redemption (based on the unique code) 2a. App records redemption count to DB 3. App displays statistics of coupon redemption (how many, when, maybe other attributes)
- StavrosK 16y ago
  That's very interesting and shouldn't be too hard to make, send me an email and we can discuss it further!