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Episode 63 - The Pinball Map
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago47 min listen
Highlights
- Pinball Map launched in late 2008 in Portland with 43 locations and 133 machines
- The first version took about three months of intensive software development
- Pinball Map expanded to other cities around 2010 via regional administrators without aggressive outreach
- React Native app redesign occurred around 2018 to unify iOS and Android versions
- Current server costs approximately $60/month (half for server RAM, half for database)
- App and desktop web traffic is roughly 50/50, not the predicted 80% app dominance
- Pinball Map receives new location submissions every day, many per day
- Operators sometimes attempt to clear negative comments by deleting and re-adding machines
Notable quotes
“if you're a pinball player, the pinball map is the single greatest resource available to you”
“I'm a big fan of this podcast listen to every episode of it. So it's a real thrill to be on here.”
“Ryan and I were actually roommates at the time. And Ryan's the one who got me into pinball.”
“we didn't want to just like barge in and be like hey use our map ours is you know we have a better interface or something like that”
“we don't do the greatest with looking at metrics or tracking anything. Like we don't even have a counter on the website.”
“Ryan is absolutely relentless with this code... just has never stopped”
“they kind of think we're a business. They treat us like we are a profit-generating business that is hurting their business. And at the end of the day, we're not a profit generating business.”
“We're just reporting the condition of machines as the public reports them to us. That's it.”
“I have pretty thin skin. I don't love getting upset messages.”
“I spend every day working on our games to make sure that we're offering the best quality playing experience... players don't know”
Entities
- Crazy Flipper Fingers (CFF)· organization
- Portland Mercury· organization
- Portland Pinball League· organization
- The Oregonian· organization
- Wedgehead· organization
- Willamette Weekly· organization
- Alan· person
- Alex the Waterboy· person
- Beth· person
- Frank Michael· person
- Isaac· person
- Johnny· person
- Ryan· person
- Scott· person
- Ko-fi· product
- Patreon· product
- Pinball Map· product
- Pinball Rebel· product
- Rec Pinball· product
- React Native· technology
