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Looks interesting if niche. Somebody should take all the documentation and create gamification experience around it. With levels and all. Maybe even as a submis
by arafalov 14y ago
Looks interesting if niche. Somebody should take all the documentation and create gamification experience around it. With levels and all. Maybe even as a submission to the currently running Gamification Coursera class....
I can just imagine: Level one: you managed to download all sources. All the way to "You are the master, you can now serve your own ??? (ruby on rails app?) from your own server".
Then build a community with badges and pledges and things around it. Have a side quest or two for the adventurous players.
- thmzlt 14y agoDoes anyone older than 14 really care about that?
- nitrogen 14y agoNever underestimate the effect a few tweaks to the ancient parts of your brain can have. As one anecdote, I was quite surprised how much of a difference was made in my motivation by coloring my passing/failing test cases green/red using ANSI escape sequences.
- Howitzer 14y agoIt sets goals very clearly outside of 'I need a working system'.
- 4abhishekpathak 14y agoits not really that trivial.
- arafalov 14y agoZynga made vast majority of its money from the people significantly older than 14. And they swear by gamification.
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- helper-method 14y agoWhen I look for inspiration for new projects or new ideas, I often look out for posts like yours. Things that people would love to have, which don't exist yet and solve a real problem. This is a really great idea... maybe when I have some time to spare somewhere in the near future, I will try to implement something like that :-).