{"id":248,"date":"2012-11-17T04:23:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T04:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/?p=248"},"modified":"2012-11-17T04:23:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T04:23:01","slug":"crossword-butler-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2012\/11\/17\/crossword-butler-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossword Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the <a href=\"http:\/\/crosswordbutler.com\">Crossword Butler<\/a> domain expires in a month, and I&#8217;m not sure if I should re-up.  It hasn&#8217;t really been used the way I thought it might.  The idea was that puzzlemakers would just make the puzzles and I would handle all the hard parts &#8212; distribution, collecting payment, managing usernames and password, etc.  Turns out that most puzzlemakers who have gone the independent route recently have opted to handle all that themselves.  I still think it&#8217;s a good idea to have a central repository for all those things, but it hasn&#8217;t worked out quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>If I do keep it around, there are a few things I need to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make an HTML5 solver so that users could access Crossword Butler from their mobile devices.  I&#8217;ve contacted some people about that but nothing has panned out.<\/li>\n<li>Get integration with Kickstarter.  Independent puzzlemakers want to know that they will have a base of support before launching.  Crossword Butler as currently built doesn&#8217;t have that safety valve where if there&#8217;s not enough support for a puzzle, the constructor doesn&#8217;t have to launch.  I need to figure out how I can work with Kickstarter to do that.<\/li>\n<li>Advertise more, maybe?  Boy, this certainly isn&#8217;t my strong point (despite the fact that I actually do work in the marketing industry).  I thought I had some potential clients lined up at first, but they fell through, and I&#8217;ve had nothing since.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even if I do these things, there&#8217;s no guarantee this will work.  But at least I&#8217;d stand a chance of surviving.  I don&#8217;t know.  Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Crossword Butler domain expires in a month, and I&#8217;m not sure if I should re-up. It hasn&#8217;t really been used the way I thought it might. The idea was that puzzlemakers would just make the puzzles and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2012\/11\/17\/crossword-butler-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}