Making the screen in the room worth looking at
Billbo is the app on your phone. BillboTV is the app on the screen. These guides cover how the two fit together and what to do with them once they are paired.
Billbo and BillboTV: how the phone app and the TV app fit together
Two apps, one room. Create a saloon on your phone, then connect it to any screen - a TV box or a spare phone you mirror. Ten minutes, start to finish.
7 min readInteractive big screen games for bars: what actually gets played
Most bar TVs show a match nobody asked for. Here is what to put on the screen instead, why the phone has to be the controller, and how to run it on hardware you already own.
8 min readA live poll app for events that puts the results on the big screen
Audience polls die when the results live on a laptop. Here is how to run a live poll where the bars fill on the room's own screen while people vote.
6 min readPhone-controlled party games for groups: everyone's phone is the controller
Party games break down at the hand-over: one controller, five people waiting. Games that run on the phones already in the room don't have that problem.
7 min readHow to make a bar more interactive without redesigning it
Quiz nights need a host. Photo walls need staff. Here are eight ways to make a room more interactive that survive a normal Tuesday with one person behind the bar.
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