#Rapidealz
There are a lot of deals out there in the RapidWeaver universe. I thought It would be nice to try to build a free site where developers and visitors can recommend new deals and have a source for coupon codes, free fonts, themes, stacks, graphics, etc. Feel free to submit your deal.
Rapidealz is built using Foundation and Total CMS and some duck power.
Hi Steve,
thank you for your thoughts. I do offer discounts for my products too and I have no problem with that. Most are limited by time and I donāt think this will be something bad. Am I wrong?
If someone donāt want to be listet, drop me a mail and I will remove it.
Cheers,
Jochen
I think a discount is only a tool for marketing. But I agree that it does work better on the software business. The advantage for a discount: You will get interested visitors on your site. Thinking of it as a kind of classic advertising to get visitors. If you sell bikes and you donāt want or can not do a discount because of the price structure, it would be nice for the customer to get something on top. A bottle or something else. And if the customer is in your shop, he probably needs some more stuff to enjoy his new bikeā¦
But I know what you mean.
This site is an idea to make winner on both sides, users and devs.
Isnāt that what the announcements forum is for?
There is no announcement forum any longer for month. At least for meā¦
Bravo. All you are doing is advertising deals. Keep doing it. You are not low balling, or offering special deals that undercut developers. You are merely passing on information already available on the web. Anyone that is hurt by this does not have a very viable business plan in place.
Terry
Looking for ādealsā is in human nature. It does not necessarily mean greed. I know I can not afford products of some developers in RW circle.
Deals are not a threat to all developers. Most of them routinely offer deals from time to time, or bundle their apps for a discount. They are not forced to do that, but they earn our gratitude.
Even shops selling Apple products sometimes provide deals ā usually for a very short period of time.
So, why not compile the news about deals to make them more accessible for those who need them?
BTW, you are free to buy apps at their regular price, whenever they are not discounted. I do that too, sometimes. The fact that some addons are on sale does not necessarily mean that I go and buy them whether or not I need them. I am even known for buying apps for regular prices, even though I know I will never use them ā just to support developers.
Great idea for a site! This is a useful way to get the developers deals known to a wider audience. There developers I didnāt even know existed and probably wouldnāt have seen their products otherwise. So this has already been beneficial to me for getting to know some new products. I do most of my shopping through the community site so if the product is not on there then I usually donāt see it unless I come across it by accident.
So for some developers, this site would a great way to get more exposure and lead to additional sales on other, non-discounted products.
On a related / unrelated note - nice use of TCMS to show an example of how to have sections on a site where users can submit content. Iām sure there are lots of use cases for that.
Curious how it works on the backend - is the submission autosaved as a draft and then you go in and set the approved ones to āliveā?
Yes, exactly. It is autosaved as a draft.
Yummy FTP Pro Summer Sale for a week:
OneLittleDesigner: 25-35% Off Themes & Stacks.
https://rapidealz.com/deal/2017-summer-sale-20170630071738
Rapidealz: If you know a nice deal, fill in the form and share it with the Rapidweaver community.
Iād like to add my two cents here.
I like the deals site idea, but why would you leave deals on there from April and May (and even June) if they are no longer in effect?
It just clutters up the site.
Yes, I will take a look at it to make it better.
Thanks for the message. Donāt forget: Everybody can submit a deal on Rapidealz.
Great idea Jochen and I enjoyed the simple layout. It would be nice to have an opt-in to be notified of new deals through email, if possible.
Whatās the status of Rapidealz site? Been offline long time nowā¦
