Your golfday event leader board on mobile-need testers (free)

[martinj2]

Hello there-I've developed a Stableford leader board for golf days etc that is updated in real time and viewed on mobile phones.
Competitors can view a real time leader board compiled from gross scores submited by users from their phones out on the course (Stableford points are automatically calculated from the gross score and boards updated)
..or a summary of both nines totals only can be submitted and boards are updated
I'm looking for volunteers to test the system in the real world.
Obviously there would be no charge to use the system because you would be a beta tester.
If you are interested please send me a message here.....and you can see how it works here
Ourgolfday.com
(ignore any prices you see on the site-as I said Beta testing is free of charge)

 

[RGuk]

Why?

You've actually spent time on this?

Sounds like a pointless waste of time......sorry......

 

[brendy]

I cant see it in any sort of market, Its not a profit maker especially in this period of negative financial confidence,
For that reason, Im out.

 

[martinj2]

........because I was fed up of playing on a golf day and not know where I was on the leader board at any one time, or what score I had to beat.

 

[viscount17]

and you're advocating the use of phones on course?

 

[martinj2]

obviously on quiet mode

 

[martinj2]

...........and you are using the phone web browser....not receiving a call!

 

[SS2]

The system relies on every player entering their scores on a mobile using the phone's web browser. So, in order for the leaderboard to be accurate (i.e. to include everyone's score), you need all players to:

1. Own or have access to a mobile with web browsing capabilities

2. Understand their phone enough to put it in quiet mode and to use the phone's web browser

3. Be willing to use their phone in this way whilst enjoying a nice game of golf.

4. Understand the potential cost implications of using their phone to access the web.

It's a nice idea and would appeal most to the sub-30 age group but I think it's a hard sell to get everyone who is playing signed up and if you can't do that, then the idea fails.

Good luck anyway.

 

[Imurg]

And if you get a player that forgets to upload a score then the whole thing is going to be wrong.

Sorry Mate, sounds like a big fat non-starter from where I am......

 

[HTL]

What % of golfers have a web browser on their phone?

And it don't make a difference what your using your phone for. Its bad form on the course unless your a Dr on call etc.

I don't see the point of this idea. And the amount of golfers with web browsing phones will probably be less that 15%

I would knock this idea on the head mate as your going to lose lots of money.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

My God, I find it hard enough to work this thing let alone a mobile phone with the internet on it! My phone is the simplest thing in the world, no camera, no MP3 player, it's just a phone.

Also, I know people who don't mark there cards every hole so there's no way you could get everyone to do this!!

IMHO Golf should be a way of getting away from these distractions!

 

[Wildrover]

I can just picture some of our older members trying to figure out how to do this, I might be for it just for the comedy value.
Seriously though, in this age of technology I like switching the phone off and leaving it in my car/locker for a few hours, when I'm out on the course I want to concentrate on playing, not faffing about with my mobile on every tee.
Non starter, You're Fired!!

 

[OldWindy]

What's the point of this? More unnecessary technology which most folk can't support? And as for mobiles on the course...!? It's too gimmicky.

TBH, you would expect dedicated kit for something like this and perhaps the best market are golf clubs who can then rent them out as and when.

 

[billyg]

I have recently been given a flash Nokia phone by The Missus as she's on a 'proper' contract rather than my pay-as-you-go sim and she likes the phone she has so I got her upgrade.

This is the first time Ive been somewhat ahead of the curve from a mobile point of view as I'm happy to rely on cast-offs from friends and relatives- all of which work with my sim to a greater or lesser extent.

Makes/receives calls?
Makes/receives text messages?
Has a ring tone that sounds something like a conventional 'ring ring..ring ..ring'?

That'll do (bearing in mind I'm still often at a point where as a small boy in the 70's devices as sophisticated as mobile telecommunications would have come straight off Han Solo's utility belt)

Anyway, with a new gadget to play with lets have a quick play and see what new distracting extras this one has. Amongst them a genuine 3G Internet connection i.e. not WAP and also a fully functioning GPS and GPS street level guidance system.

A fresh £10 top up(which usually lasts me a month or more) and a call to confirm it's gone through later and it's time to road test.

Here's the kicker for the OP on his system;

5 minutes on the web - £6

5 minutes on GPS - £4

Now I know that these rates can be cheaper if you have an all-singing and dancing inclusive contract (as the missus does) but even then, when last on holiday I borrowed her mobile to send in a post to GM and do a bit of browsing and when we got home she shortly thereafter got a bill for £50 for what amounted to 3 hours of web surfing at most.

So lets look at these extrapolated costs for a 3.5 hour round of golf using a realtime and therefore always-on web connection:

Pay as you go - 210 minutes @ £1.20 a minute (£6/5 minutes)=£252 a round

£40 a month mega contract - 210 minutes @ 27.7p a minute (£50/180 minutes)=£58.17 a round

I'm certainly no dragon from the den but my humble advice would be to go back to the drawing board as aside from some of the other well-founded arguments set out earlier - the marginal costs to the end user make this a compete dead duck if nothing else






.....unless you have very deep pockets and own Deutsche Telecom by any chance.

Sorry - I'm out.