New Software Announcement - SIXTH SENSE

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As one software company owner to another, I'd like to offer some advice. The only reason your software accesses your servers is for a table list, correct? Something that could be done on the client machine. I honestly don't see many people paying monthly for this. Make it an option. Have a subscription service for people who want to offload the processing, and have a one-time payment option for those who don't. If you don't, I believe you'll severely limit your potential number of users.

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One MAJOR thing that I think is being overlooked (and I probably didnt make a big enough point of it) is that the final version will support a variety of different sites.

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Say you want to search for the most profitable tables in NL100-400 on PartyPoker, Crypto, Prima, and B2B. If the scanner was client side - ALL of these lobbies would need to be opened, and would have to be scanned separately. The process would take probably 5-10 minutes, and by the time you're done - the best seats could have been taken, the best tables could be broken up, etc. A LOT happens within 5-10 minutes.

Once we support server side scanning of these sites, not only will you be able to generate an entire list that is less than a few minutes old, you dont even have to have a single lobby open. You can pick your best tables over a list of sites without even logging in.


I do like your suggestion for a fully-client-side version for a 1-time fee. Such a program would be much more limited in capability, and take up a decent amount of CPU load than a server-run list...but if there is a demand, we would work on such an upgrade.

Thanks,
Dan

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I know very little about programming, but I am also wary about anything that needs to connect to an external server from my machine...but there is a potential solution here:

* First of all, I like the server-side scanning -- PTS is also very slow and buggy for me and I haven't really used it at all.

* BUT, there seems like there would be a solution for those that want frequent server-side table scans without having to send any data from their machine...make it some sort of continuously-updated list that your subscribers can quickly download from a members-section of your website, which can then be imported into the client software on the user's computer.

For example: at any time, a user could log into the members-only section of your website, and download the most current version of your scanned table-player list...which will be updated as often as you're able...so I'd download a file called 313pm.sxth or something proprietary like that, which your software on my machine can then import, and generate a list of tables that meet my criteria.
I'm sure there were a dozen things wrong with my suggestion, but I think you see what I'm getting at...there should be a way for you to figure out how to get the updated list of players to the user's computer without the need for a direct real-time connection that will make people (myself included) uneasy.

This will of course come at the expense of a little bit of speed, and it's true that 'a lot' can happen in 10 minutes, but let's not exaggerate things...if a 'good' table breaks in a few minutes, it's not a table where a player was going to make a big score anyway.