Dudspuds Blog

Now that we’re in full swing with our first two publishers, we’d like to announce a major milestone. The Dudspuds marketplace now offers over 60 premium articles per week, with the average price of $0.24 each.

Bumps in the Road

There were a good number of performance problems with the publisher tools that required several coding iterations. This was primarily around very long articles, and when you tried loading them - the system would crap out. Well - we’ve solved all these issues and now you can load articles as long as you want (although we haven’t tried one that is the length of Encyclopedia Britannica). To further speed things up, we added some clever link processing that can automatically associate players and teams to your articles.

Moving forward, I intend to pursue more publishers to increase the number of premium articles offered each week. This will include publishers that do content for fantasy baseball, in preparation for next season.

In addition, I am going to put the word out to friends (and friends of friends) that the marketplace is open for business, and please give it a try. I’m cooking up a bonus program that will give new customers free money when they setup an account and fund it with a few bucks. I plan to introduce this program next week, and will post about it.

More Features to Come

On another note - expect to start seeing new features on the customer facing screens. Some of the things on the slate include…

• Daily e-mail to consumers with new articles for sale
• More efficient search results listing
• Improved placement of star ratings