Announcing Visimojo – an Awesome New Web App!
Martin Angelov
In the past year, I have been developing an exciting new web application that I can finally share with you guys! It is called Visimojo and it’s a tool for building surveys visually – you connect questions together into a logical structure, which represents the conversation between you and your user (try it).
One of the reasons it took so long is that I have been developing it on the side, when not busy with college assignments or writing tutorials for Tzine. The other reason is the amount of coding it required; it is the largest web application that I’ve created to date, and I wanted it to work and feel just right.
Visimojo - Elegant Survey Builder
As this is a programming community, here are some technical details:
- The front end is written in CoffeeScript. It also uses knockout.js and jQuery, along with a handful of plugins (some of which I’ve created myself, like the dragging functionality);
- The backend is written in PHP and the Laravel framework. Laravel is a fantastic tool, and the bundles are indispensible;
- I don’t plan to support IE at all. It does work in the latest versions of IE (mostly), but I am not happy with the overall performance of the browser. IE 10 might fix this, but I haven’t gotten around to testing it there yet;
- Some of the code has been released as tutorials here (like framewarp, the google registration form and other bits here and there). I am considering writing a few tutorials about laravel and knockout, as they make things so much easier.
Visimojo is launched as a public beta and you can sign up right now for free. It will be free for a few more months until the beta ends, but going forward, the only way for the service is to be paid.
Visual Survey Designer
I am looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions!
by Martin Angelov
Martin is a web developer with an eye for design from Bulgaria. He founded Tutorialzine in 2009 and publishes new tutorials weekly.
11 Comments
Very good work. I'm impressed!
Very neat. I like it. One quick questions once it is rolled out can you brand the survey's based on your company or will the look be static?
Maybe something to look into if you have not thought of that. I know that is usually the first thing my clients ask me.
Thank you for the suggestion! You can't brand it at the moment, but I am considering it as a future addition. The competition offers this as a premium feature.
What a great job
Although I dont know coffee script but i like it
Congratulations!
I've tried to opened site on IPad (safari) and it seems not working.
Thanks! It should alert you that your device is not yet supported as it needs more testing on the iPad.
Hi Martin,
Congratulations thats very impressive, i've gone through it and done some test survey. it works pretty well.
Only thing you need to add some tooltips on the way for guidance while new users are using it.
Hey Martin, Congratulations man!
I really loved the Concept of Chaining the Questions!
Implementation is IMPECCABLE!
wow!
nice and easy to go about.
loved the relationship chain system.
easy registration
70%easy navigation.
but the problem is that not everybody is an automatic knowhow ,
so create a popup for each survey type,menu,and links ,saying what it does.
i hope i was able to help.
it took me just 1 minute 30 second to create a dummy survey,
Will do!