PubCoder - Plus exclusive Reviews

But I asked for a refund. In my case, I wanted to make an example of a game application (Million Dollar Money Drop like). I managed to use some of the elements in the template example, but alas, this game seems too complicated to set up with PubCoder. Unfortunately, I think you need to have a good grasp of coding to take full advantage of this platform. Nevertheless, I imagine that creating an animated digital book is far less complex.

First know that my 3 taco rating might mean that people (like me) do not see this as an easy tool to use. 5 Tacos (to me) means that it is EVERYTHING you expect it to be based on the advertisements and statements made on behalf of the product. So here is why it EARNED 3 tacos.
+1. It is a tool that allows you access to publishing "stories."
+2. There is a possibility that all features listed is able to be accessed and utilized to work as expected.
+3. The documents available shows that there may be an ease for the development of a short story without much need for ALL tools.
Why not 4 tacos?
-4. *Nowhere did it say that it would be difficult to publish in EPUB. They offer a reader to download to read your "stories" organically. :(
-5. **Some, if basic, knowledge of CODE is required. The whole idea is that you don't need to know code to make perfectly awesome--audiobooks, interactive text, etc. :(

*I expected that I could upload my story to EPUB easily. (I can not.) In fact, since I could not create what I had envisioned with this tool, I used one of their "samples". It was an interactive children's book (! I was drooling at the possibility of making my children's book interactive...yeah!). I would consider it "well done." However, when I went to publish it, I found out that I didn't have the right macbook (I would have to upgrade to 13 to utilize the software that would require its facilitation). Otherwise I would have to publish everything in their FREE Pub READER!!! NOOOO! I do not want to have to have another reader app--Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. too many out there already!

**This is a perfectly great tool if you don't mind spending a good amount of time getting onboarded. Their several videos (offered in English and Italian at this time) only make clear the very basic usage, which most of us could just use a website and other tools sold here on AppSumo for which are much less labor intensive.

To give them a 5 Taco rating, they would have to make clear these two things. THEN, and only then, are they ABSOLUTELY 100% right on!

KNOW: I usually only write when I am very happy, asked to with some free offering. If I'm not very pleased, I just get a refund. However, since I was OVER THE MOON with the thought I could use this as stated above, I just felt others like me could save time if they choose to read this review. It would have saved me time (if not money since I will be receiving a full refund upon clicking "submit review." :(

I have only had this tool for a little while and have only dug into about 25% of it. For the range of things you can do with this tool as a digital content creator or marketer you should be ashamed of yourself if you don't give this tool a test drive for this price. If you give it some patience and drive in the slow lane pretty soon you will see how much power and potenial this tool really has. I created a test book for an ipad in less than 30 mins. Small Demo here if you want to check it out.

https://youtu.be/tgZmk-B6jik

I mixed it with another AI iIlustrator tool mixed in a little Canva and I was off to the races. This predict that this will be my highest grossing revenue tool I have purchased from Appsumo. I have this on my project board to create something special by the end of the year. Cheers to the founders of this very mature tool. The only thing that I wish it had was more tuturioals. If they had more of those they would have 3x the sales. That is the only con I have with this tool at the moment.

I spent a long time getting to know what PubCoder can do before buying, and a fair amount of time testing it after I bought. My conclusion: it's not perfect, but it is very powerful and an extremely good value IF you'll use it.

If you're just browsing AppSumo looking for shiny new toys, then you might want to move along. But if you are actually wiling to do some work to create electronic books, then this is an extremely comprehensive and well-thought-out tool. There is room for improvement, but that's par for the course with AppSumo. This is not in early stages, but it has room to grow, and (IF you're someone who will use it, THEN) you'd be crazy to pass up the opportunity to get a lifetime deal for a fix (and relatively small) cost.

That's the positive high-level overview. Now for the negative things I've found so far.

- While the app is in general very responsive and never slow for normal interactions, there are some processes that take a long time. Basically anything involving a progress bar takes a lot longer than I would expect. I'm willing to live with that, since I don't know everything that they have to do during those processes. I'll just give them the benefit of the doubt that there's a reason it takes so long.
- The Quiz widget is extraordinarily simplistic. As far as I can see it only supports multiple choice questions.
- It seems to me that there are other sorts of widgets that would make sense to add.
- I've found a number of mistakes in the English localization.

And here are some things that are unclear to me still
- I'd like to be able to add my own widgets, but I don't see a way
- it appears (based on some of the snippets) that jQuery is included by default. Could I also include something like React? Could I remove jQuery? I would like to be able to add my own React components and have them appear in the Widgets or Controllers section. (Or better yet, have a Components section for them.)

Ultimately none of the problems above are a big deal to me. The positive aspects of PubCoder overwhelmingly make up for any negative aspects I've found.

Think of it this way: if you set out on a project to publish an electronic book, how much time would something like PubCoder save you? Unless you know of a similar product that is better, I can assure you that this will save you countless hours. It could easily be hundreds or thousands of hours, depending on the size and scope of your project. Even if it saved you a dozen hours on a small project, you wouldn't get all the capabilities this gives you with very little effort. You wouldn't be able to easily publish to several different formats, including iOS and Android apps with all the features built in.

IF you'll use it, then just buy it!

I would like to say a huge thank you to the team behind this project. This is awesome software, the whole idea and realization and support.

From the Q&A section where I read very carefully I see that these guys know what they are doing very well.

Highly recommend this deal. Hidden gem💎