5Guesses.com

Richard ThomsRob Boirun

Project Beginnings

• Project conceived at the March session of the North Alabama Web Developers Meetup!

• “Guess the Image”

The Initial Idea• Show a scrambled image

• Reveal a little more with each wrong guess.

• Do you know who this is?

A Collaborative Effort

• Richard builds code

• Rob builds traffic

www.5guesses.comV0.9 Released Today!

Platform

• Joomla! 2.5+ 3 custom modules+ 1 custom component+ 1 command line interface

+ 1 purchased theme ($50)+ a few Joomla Extensions

Contest Teaser Module

• Displays small version of a contest image and the most recent guess.

Contest Image Module

• Displays large version of contest image and % showing.

Recent Guesses Module

• Displays last few guesses

Guess the Image Component

• Takes the guess and does all the image and guess processing work

A Little Bit of AJAX• Refresh every 30 seconds so you can see

updates as others guess. CORE HACK/MOD.• Needs some work!

Joomla Extensions• RocketTheme Template• Community Builder• Social Links module• Facebook Like module• Contact component

First Game

• Slowly reveal the image with each wrong guess.

• Kind of boring• Just keep pumping “junk” guesses to make it

reveal faster.• Limit guesses?

Second Game

• Have the image automatically reveal

• It’s Different• Complications on coding.– Joomla CLI + cron job to automatically generate

the revealing images on server side– AJAX to keep refreshing the image on client side

Gameification

• Need to add coins/badges– Each guess– Each correct guess– Invite a friend– Others??

• Prizes/Awards– Sponsors products– Groupon like deals

Other Game Ideas

• Beat the clock– Single or multi player

• SongPop like game– Multiple choice head-to-head

• Upload your own image– Invite your friends/family

May Need Browser Plug-in?

• Fast image reveal on client side.• Encrypt the image to prevent cheating.

• MOBILE APP?

Traffic and Revenue

• Rob’s Specialty• SEO will not work• Must be Social

Social Strategy

• Facebook – get users to share, comment, Like• Twitter – get people to tweet their winning

guess and the image that it was guessed at.• Pinterest – get users to Pin game image results

or pre guess image.

Social Strategy Continued

• Instagram – not exactly sure about this one at this time.

• G+ - get users to share new games, current games, results to their circles

• Others?? Ideas??

Building Traffic

• Initial contact with influencers on each medium. Work deals for promotion.

• Some initial thoughts on getting images to go viral….

Memes – One way to spread the word fast

• Share, Tweet, +1• Challenge: to find the best way to make the

game images go viral.

Other Options

Like, Follow, Circle, Kiss & Hug

We need some followers!

• Search for 5Guesses on…– Facebook– Twitter– G+– Pintrest

Collaboration is Good!

• Building on each others strengths• Bouncing ideas• Pushing each other

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