Brickpicker Development v4.0

[Jeff Mack]

I am creating this thread to start posting some updates or sometimes may solicit some feedback for the upcoming Brickpicker v4.0 update. Progress as been somewhat slow, but continuous for a while. It's funny that I just read the the post by Nathan over @ Rebrickable who just launched his 3rd update of the site.

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For the last year I have been working hard on completely rebuilding Rebrickable from scratch. I estimated it would take me a year, secretly thinking I could probably do it faster. Of course, I seriously underestimated the effort required. 5 years of adding features and tweaking things on Rebrickable adds up to a significant amount of functionality that needed to be rebuilt. There were several times when I considered abandoning the attempt.

Kudos to him. I feel the exact same way. Actually, I think all developers are just a little bit nuts when it comes to expectations and timelines.

This is not going to be an in-depth post, just a kickstarter post to give me a place to where I can go to to share my thoughts and ideas as well as to gather some from all of you.  You may have noticed my new graphic on the forum index that will allow you to post ideas, members can vote on them and feedback can be given.  Its a cool service that allow you to build a roadmap and integrate it with project management software.  The past two years I have learned to use lots of fun tool at my 9-5 job (like Jira), and I have learned to become a less chaotic engineer.

Anyhow, here is a small bullet list of things to expect with v4.0:

• Site redesign.  Everything will finally all look like its part of the same site. 
• Price guide and Brickfolio overall
• Yes, sold sets will finally be there
• Multiple brickfolios for those that have personal and business
• Lots more data to do your own analysis on your collection
• Full syncing with Brickset/Rebrickable (instead of just the import only feature that is currently there)
• Brick Classifieds will be brought into Brickpicker.  (probably my most hated thing I did was create a separate site)
• There will be a premium offering (more info will be released at a later time).

There is much more to announce, but I am not ready to go into details until I actually can show a few things.  There is no ETA announcement just yet.  I will say it will be sooner rather than later, but not ready to commit to date.  I want to make sure I will be able to hit and there is still work and QA to do.

Anyhow, thats what I have for now. Again, feel free to leave some ideas for other members to read, vote on and see if it can be added into the initial release or we can add it to the roadmap for future release.  More to come....

[donbee]

I'm curious, what would be included in the premium offering?
A meme generator maybe?

[HandyHand]

I would seriously consider becoming a Premium member just to reward the Macks for hosting and running this awesome site and giving my financial support to keep it going and improving as well! This from someone who hasn't gotten a premium / paid membership on any other site so far.  

[Sprocket77]

10 minutes ago, Haay said:

This from someone who hasn't gotten a premium / paid membership on any other site so far.  

Or that's at least what you tell your wife 

[HandyHand]

1 minute ago, Sprocket77 said:

Or that's at least what you tell your wife 

Ssshhhh! 

[Jeff Mack]

7 hours ago, donbee said:

I'm curious, what would be included in the premium offering?
A meme generator maybe?

I should have said I knew this would be the first response.  I saw it coming before I even hit submit.  It would be dumb of me to go into a list at this point in time, it would just make this thread become a discussion all about that. When the time comes, you will get a nice presentation of what you get, the benefits of it and it will really be clear as to whether you are the type of person that will utilize it or not. Overall it is targeting the Lego Professional.  Ones that will have no issue and see the benefit right away. These are users that will be able to probably make the "investment" back probably very soon.

[exciter1]

7 hours ago, donbee said:

I'm curious, what would be included in the premium offering?
A meme generator maybe?

The pleasure of our company.

[Sprocket77]

2 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

The pleasure of our company.

[Alpinemaps]

The pleasure of our company.

I've had the pleasure of your company before. I'm still waiting on my refund.

[Huskers1236]

Maybe this is possible now, but the ability to block member posts would be huge.  If I could avoid seeing certain members' drivel over and over again that would be great.

[Bold-Arrow]

1 minute ago, Huskers1236 said:

Maybe this is possible now, but the ability to block member posts would be huge.  If I could avoid seeing certain members' drivel over and over again that would be great.

It is already an option to do that 

[Huskers1236]

1 minute ago, Bold-Arrow said:

It is already an option to do that 

Found it,  Thanks.  Let the blocking commence. 

[redghostx]

On 2/13/2017 at 9:59 PM, donbee said:

I'm curious, what would be included in the premium offering?
A meme generator maybe?

No turd talk.  I will pay a premium for that.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

How about charging 1c/1p per post as an alternative to a paid membership? I know a lot of you don't like negative posts but, some of you have to see things as they are and appreciate that the UK is not as easy to invest in as the US ;-)

47 minutes ago, Huskers1236 said:

Found it,  Thanks.  Let the blocking commence. 

Assuming 9 of you block me, I block 10 of you! ;-)

[exciter1]

47 minutes ago, redghostx said:

No turd talk.  I will pay a premium for that.

Kudos kudos!  We definitely need this feature.

[Val-E]

Not a great deal of new ideas for Jeff to work on, is there?

I´d really appreciate having the SAH stock alerts back and being able to custom configure my own alerts for any items I chose from the catalogue in the SAH of my choice.

Edited February 15, 2017 by Val-E

[Jeff Mack]

4 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Not a great deal of new ideas for Jeff to work on, is there?

I´d really appreciate having the SAH stock alerts back and being able to custom configure my own alerts for any items I chose from the catalogue in the SAH of my choice.

To be 100% honest, if that feature comes back, it may not include Spain again.  The ROI is just not there.  I don't think the site has made $250 from Spain in affiliate revenue in the sites existence.  With that being said, it could come back and a much less aggressive setup to do basic monitoring for you where it polls the Lego site just to check for inventory.

[belljohn]

Great to hear an update.  I am ready to go whenever you need updated video or blog content.  I just need a week or 2 notice.

[Val-E]

Actually, since stocks are usually the same, the alert from Sah.de or UK would work fine too but it would be nice to have the Spanish site prices up in the comparison table. It´s good to know RRP´s in different countries at a glance to know which sets are rip offs and which are relatively good deals.

Also, If there is no actual link to the Spanish (or wherever) SAH or Amazon, then it´s hard to generate revenue! I´d definitely go through this site to Spanish SAH or Amazon offers if they were up there.

[Scatterbug]

I'd happily pay for premium membership. I'd pay even more for a meme-free site.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

1 minute ago, Scatterbug said:

I'd happily pay for premium membership. I'd pay even more for a meme-free site.

I've mentioned premium membership myself and will probably be told off again for repeating it!

As for memes, I don't have a problem as it shows humor humour and creativity among memebers ;-)

[Jeff Mack]

5 minutes ago, Scatterbug said:

I'd pay even more for a meme-free site

I hate memes, yes, i would pay to have them removed from the site as well

[TANV]

1 minute ago, Jeff Mack said:

I hate memes, yes, i would pay to have them removed from the site as well

I whole heartedly concur with that assessment.  Perhaps you could create a Meme-Hammer of sorts or a Meme Moderator.

[exciter1]

6 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

I hate memes, yes, i would pay to have them removed from the site as well

Well, now I feel like Adele singing "Hello".

[Sprocket77]

27 minutes ago, Scatterbug said:

I'd happily pay for premium membership. I'd pay even more for a meme-free site.