I have never taken a screenshot basically because I donât like the format. I do however change my printer selection to create a pdf and save it to my PC. That way I can print or review online as needed. But not everyone has that ability. So giving an option to save as a pdf or spreadsheet might be helpful. I havenât tried to create a spreadsheet for comparison of various scenarios. But if you go to any of the Dealer, Edmunds, KBB, etc. sites they allow you to choose a number of cars and compare them. That would be really cool for your calculator since in my case I am looking at a variety of factors to come up with a lease price. There is at least a dozen different scenarios per car model.
There is a site https://www.carbuyingtips.com/car4.htm Toward the bottom of the page is âCalculating your offerâ. The last sentence has a âdownloadable spreadsheetâ which is copyrighted (but itâs just a spreadsheet). As you can see it is used to calculate the âbest SELLING priceâ. I was thinking that your calculator might be adapted to something similar for âbest LEASE priceâ given that there are a lot of tweaks that can be applied.
By the way Happy New Year and thanks for asking for my thoughts.
x2. People asking for opinions on offers should also follow the format.
I think this could work as an âembeddableâ widget (kind of like how twitter does it)
So you will need a database of some sort (like firebase?) and then you will have to create some sort of ID for each calculator ârunâ. What you should get is some sort of URL like http://calc.leasehackr.com/123456 (or alpha numeric is fine too like a URL shortener â bitly or imgur style, please donât do a UUID)
Then using that URL (or ID), you should be able to embed in anywhere (on the forums) or on any other website â again, see how twitter does it
If I understand what youâre saying, it would be like SpeedTest.netâs results? It generates a URL & anyone can easily embed their results to a forum or website
Iâd like to have an option to block (hide) unwanted users to showing up in threads, so I can avoid seeing certain posters.
I think I saw this option before, but canât figure out now.
Yup, like that. We are just collecting ideas, right ⌠actually, I think at the end of the day, if the âcrowdâ (aka, the fine folks at this forum) wants to do this, Iâm thinking it will be a project in 2 parts:
- Open source lease calculator - there is a lot out there already so maybe we can repurpose something
- Need ability to hook up to âdatabaseâ
- Need ability to have an embeddable widget
- Developed on github.com openly
- Crowd-sourced data - this is the âgoogle spreadsheetâ idea but I think this data may need to have some basic UI (a little better than a spreadsheet) so updating it will not be so tedious. The end result is something like a spreadsheet. So the first couple of columns will be something like
jan 2017 dec 2016
MSD | residual | MF | miles | months |
brand
- model
- year
- might be too ambitious as some data needs updating every month
- a well designed UI may make updating it simple so that the âcommonâ parts can be grouped together in one field (like does Brand allow MSDs), you shouldnât have to update all the MB models with âYâ as an example
- if the month rolls over, do we show the previous month data with an âasteriskâ until somebody updates it
- how can we break down the effort without making it feel like work? Do we assign something do BMWs, somebody else does MBs, etc.
- how do we pick the most popular brands/models only, no point in building a giant database that nobody will use
- what is reasonable to ask a volunteer per month - 1 hour to do updates?
Business side: who owns this once this is built? The software is probably not too bad but the data may be valuable or not.
All vBulletin-based forums have such an âIgnoreâ feature âŚnot sure what LHF is based on.
A lot of times when I reply to peopleâs messages, it doesnât actually show the âreply-toâ name. Iâm not sure if this is a common occurrence or just an issue for me.
An off-topic thread or category would be greatâŚIâd be interested to know what hackrs think about the 2018 models just released at the Detroit Auto show, for instance.
Not that it matters much, but I think about UX these daysâŚsmall things such as more people would probably use the âlikeâ functionality if it was, say, a thumbs-up icon rather than a heart
great suggestions @max_g. Agree on both. I would love a whole off-topic category. This forum has been my go-to place to learn about cars and deals lately and itâd be awesome to talk to people about stuff like the self driving technologies that were announced at CES this past weekend. Honestly, this ties into leases in my opinion because I feel like technologies are changing so fast that cars are no longer about power and gas mileage, but from year to year a car could go from having no self-driving tech to self driving on freeways, to mostly autonomous, to completely autonomous. Leases are significant for these ever changing technologies.
Also I like the idea of a thumbs up or plus or something. Heart is a little too intense for my taste.
When you click the reply button under a particular post, it should show the reply-to name on the top. If you click the blue reply button at the bottom of the thread, then you are replying to the whole thread so no name would show up.
Great suggestion! We have added the Off-Ramp category for all other things automotive!
I realize that, but for some reason it doesnât seem to work always. Like right now it says Iâm replying to @littleviolette but Iâm not sure if itâll actually show up as a reply to you.
EDIT: and of course the one time I wanted to show it as an example, it actually did work. A majority of the time it doesnât.
Highlight the text youâre replying to, and it shows up like this!
Happens to me tooâŚ
This is one exampleâŚit doesnât show I was replying to Jason
yup, iâm still almost never getting a reply correctly attributed to the right person.
edit: see that was a reply to max_g.
This is one of the best forum software out there currently, you guys donât want to deal with 1990âs style like 6speedonline.com and rennlist.com âŚ
What about a rating / thumbs up/down system. Let us know what the really good replicable deals are.
You can create a poll for this functionality.
To create a poll, click the wrench icon when you write your post and click âBuild Poll.â