Dear all, Can we have a way of monetizing the content delivered via plugins? The plugin management system can be used for delivering customized content for individuals/corporate.
Can we monetize for educational/counseling services (via xAPI/LRD integration) for creating 'learning dashboards' etc? Regards Atul On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 5:29:01 PM UTC+5:30, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Do you have an idea for TiddlyWiki content that you think people might pay > for? > > Perhaps a technical manual? Or a guide for your city? Training materials > for your company's field engineer force? Or maybe a manualisation of mental > health intervention techniques? > > Would you be interested in working together to create your multimedia > TiddlyWiki content and wrap it up as an app that can be distributed and > sold on the iPhone/iPad app store? > > Here's the background for this invitation: I've recently finished my work > with CTRLio. I'm very grateful to them for the support they've shown to my > work on TiddlyWiki over the last 18 months. But now I need to find new > sources of income to replace my salary. There's a few weeks in which I can > consider some radical options, and this is one of them. > > I want to explore the idea of building a commercial TiddlyWiki ecosystem > on top of the Apple platform of iOS, the Mac and iCloud. I'm not making any > moral or philosophical judgement about Apple's place in the world. I'm > considering this plan just because the App Store is one of the places that > someone like me may be able to make money. > > This first step is simple: we create a framework for building iOS apps > that provide a terrific, read-only user experience for interacting with > TiddlyWiki documents. I'd want to support free or paid apps, with the > possibility of using in-app purchases for premium content. It would be a > way to deliver a highly custom, interactive user experience around > multimedia content. We would be able to deliver free updates to the app and > content via the app store update process. > > Such a simple application would be the quickest way to get into the app > store - I believe in just a few weeks. The aim would be for the app to be > invisible without much of a discernible user interface, just providing the > mechanisms for the content to take centre stage. It certainly shouldn't > resemble the familiar default TiddlyWiki editing interface. > > I'm open to suggestions about how to structure this from a business > perspective. I'd need some upfront payment to fund the development, but > hopfully we'd find a big enough handful of people that individual shares of > the startup costs would be relatively small. > > If enough people can provide the necessary commercial backing we can use > TiddlyPip to publish Eric's "Inside TiddlyWiki: The Missing Manual". > > Beyond simple read-only publishing, there would be a number of incremental > improvements we could make once we see regular revenue: > > # Support read/write functionality like annotations, with iCloud syncing > between iOS devices. > > # Support publishing custom, TiddlyWiki-based applications, such as > tw5.scholars. It wouldn't appear to be a TiddlyWiki file: it would behave > like a custom app for scholarly notetaking (including multi-device sync) > > # Support quizzes and questionnaires, with content unlocked by > successfully completing exercises > > # Support reporting of progress to the TinCan API > > # Support one-on-one student/educator interactions through the app. > Students might buy an academic textbook along with tokens to ask the author > 5 questions via messaging within the app. > > # Create a full end-user application that enables the user to create and > work with TiddlyWiki documents on iOS devices. This is really the ultimate > goal from a development perspective. But it's a lot of work to create such > an app with enough polish to stand out in the app store, and I'm not > convinced there are enough people prepared to pay for apps like TiddlyWiki. > But if we can bootstrap things via the content publishing route then we > ought to be able to gain the time to make the app sufficiently polished and > useful > > It's fun thinking about the possibilities. But we need to take this > journey as a series of small steps, and I need to quickly find out if > there's any hope of completing the first step. > > I need to know if there's anyone out there who might be prepared to put > some money on the table based on their belief that they have content that > could viably support this business model. So please let me know if you fit > that description. Ideally, we'd find a handful of people which would make > it easier to fund the initial development, until the app store revenues > kick in. > > Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions, > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:jeremy...@gmail.com <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a9f4b2fa-9e0a-4c73-8cc6-c00ca93d8dc7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
