After trying to sell turnips for the past few weeks and really finding it to be a pain, I had been thinking of writing a web app to do much of the heavy lifting. I realize that people use forums mostly for that, but to me it doesn't work so well. you usually have a whole ton of people and it becomes an organizational nightmare. So what I am thinking of is a simple app.
A turnip seller logs into using an id provider (I don't want to manage users, I'd use something like Google/Yahoo/Facebook, etc), sets their friend code, turnip price, how long their retail is open til, an entrance fee (if desired), a minimum tip amount, a checkbox list of common rules, and perhaps even a way to build a list of items they would like for tips.
A turnip buyer can see the active list of sellers, with the current queue for each seller. If the buyer finds a seller they like, in terms of fee, rules, tip, and retail time, they have a button they can click that says enqueue. Enqueuing sends a message to the seller and enters the buyer into the queue.
The seller then can reorder the queue for their entry as they want, and a button saying add to town. Clicking add to town (which can be done to a max of 4 people at a time) changes the add to town button to a "all done". Adding to town gives the seller the FC to add, and messages the buyer saying to add the seller to their friend list. All done simply removes the buyer from the queue, sends a message to the buyer/seller saying to remove the specific friend code (if desired), and cleans up the queue.
Messaging will likely be email, though if I pick a certain id provider, I might be able to swing IM.
So my questions are:
- What do you think of this? Would you use a matchmaking turnip app?
- I'd really not like any free form fields, mainly because of the potential for abuse, but also to save space. So I'm wondering if anyone knows of a online available item list I can suck in? (I'd definitely give credit.)
Thank you for reading my long post...
A turnip seller logs into using an id provider (I don't want to manage users, I'd use something like Google/Yahoo/Facebook, etc), sets their friend code, turnip price, how long their retail is open til, an entrance fee (if desired), a minimum tip amount, a checkbox list of common rules, and perhaps even a way to build a list of items they would like for tips.
A turnip buyer can see the active list of sellers, with the current queue for each seller. If the buyer finds a seller they like, in terms of fee, rules, tip, and retail time, they have a button they can click that says enqueue. Enqueuing sends a message to the seller and enters the buyer into the queue.
The seller then can reorder the queue for their entry as they want, and a button saying add to town. Clicking add to town (which can be done to a max of 4 people at a time) changes the add to town button to a "all done". Adding to town gives the seller the FC to add, and messages the buyer saying to add the seller to their friend list. All done simply removes the buyer from the queue, sends a message to the buyer/seller saying to remove the specific friend code (if desired), and cleans up the queue.
Messaging will likely be email, though if I pick a certain id provider, I might be able to swing IM.
So my questions are:
- What do you think of this? Would you use a matchmaking turnip app?
- I'd really not like any free form fields, mainly because of the potential for abuse, but also to save space. So I'm wondering if anyone knows of a online available item list I can suck in? (I'd definitely give credit.)
Thank you for reading my long post...
But if you seriously are a beginner, you should consider reading up on The Stalk Market.
