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Loving the concept but maybe you should be charitable and make it free as it is really just a tutorial + triggers.
This is the kind of thing that will provide value if it's quick and focused. Ads would wreck it!
But do make it affordable though ;)
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I think a scored and timed test would be really useful to HR departments at large corporations who need to screen technical applicants.
One hitch is that with most thing *nix, TMTOWTDI. Do you check for the result or do you check the command typed? Just as an example, your screenshots show the pushd/popd lesson. If prompted to change to my home directory in under two seconds I'd just type 'cd'. To get back to where I used to be I'd type 'cd -'. I never use pushd/popd. If the lesson is presented as 'use pushd and popd to navigate the filesystem' then there's no issue.
Have you checked out Hacker Evolution? Might be a good source of ideas. It also strikes me that £20 may be a tad much to ask for an interactive fiction text game.
Products are worth what value they provide, not what they cost to make.
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I'd love to but I'm not really at a point in my life where I can do a whole project full time for fun :) Since it'd be cloud based (as you'd be doing things which would be dangerous to do on your home system, under time pressure) it'd have running costs, and I expect the security aspect to be tricky.
What about using something like kickstarter to raise money?
I think you're right that it's a model that would work well - if I could raise the money to code it I'd happily make it open source after that (running costs means it'd have to cost something to use on someone's server).
Have you considered selling this as an assessment tool? You'd probably have to drop the Kung-fu theme but that doesn't mean it would have to be boring either. I think a scored and timed test would be really useful to HR departments at large corporations who need to screen technical applicants. One hitch is that with most thing *nix, TMTOWTDI. Do you check for the result or do you check the command typed? Just as an e…
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What about using something like kickstarter to raise money?
I wish I could, but Kickstarter is US only. The alternative, invested.in doesn't look that strong. I think you're right that it's a model that would work well - if I could raise the money to code it I'd happily make it open source after that (running costs means it'd have to cost something to use on someone's server).
Loving the concept but maybe you should be charitable and make it free as it is really just a tutorial + triggers.
I'd love to but I'm not really at a point in my life where I can do a whole project full time for fun :) Since it'd be cloud based (as you'd be doing things which would be dangerous to do on your home system, under time pressure) it'd have running costs, and I expect the security aspect to be tricky.
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I wish I could, but Kickstarter is US only. The alternative, invested.in doesn't look that strong. I think you're right that it's a model that would work well - if I could raise the money to code it I'd happily make it open source after that (running costs means it'd have to cost something to use on someone's server).
What about IndieGoGo?