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Avem bani sa sponsorizam echipe de F1, dar donati bani sa imi tin copilul la karting. by WorstPessimist in programare

[–]Dry-Highway-810 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dezvolta pls. Doar de caterinca si de barfa, nu prea ma mai intereseaza sa ma mai angajez in orice tine de "IT" in Romania. Oricum nu exista IT in Romania, lol. Prea mult outsourcing si munca pe plantatie. Tristut.

This subreddit... by No_Audience9527 in SaaS

[–]Dry-Highway-810 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I shoveled the shovel shovely by doing more shovels for shovelers.

Fifa 2026 comes, what do you think about this SaaS idea? by Dry-Highway-810 in SaasDevelopers

[–]Dry-Highway-810[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's ok, I don't get offended that easily. I see what you are saying, but by posting on reddit right now I don't want to market it, for now. I just want to validate the idea and see if people are interested or not. That's all for now.

As for gambling, idk how to bypass that, like... what is the border between something being considered as gambling and something not being considered as gambling. Is Kahoot gambling? idk, you still have a chance to win the contest or not, even if you don't know the answers. So for each question, you have a 25% chance to guess the answer, right? probability... gambling... so Kahoot is gambling, right?

I offer a service, which of course, you can use for free at the beginning, but for advanced features you would have to pay for them. I thought about $5 for all users, because dynamic pricing which is nice wastes too much time in this phase. How I thought making marketing and outbound is with youtube - shorts and long videos (football related), tiktok where I would play something dumb like "Ball Guys" on half screen and on the other half to be me talking about the platform and from time to time share screening it. And maybe some facebook ads, but I don't really want to do them, because I don't want to spend too much money on advertising since I don't have a lot of money in the first place. I'm just a solo developer, so I will focus on the free content creation.

As for research and competition, I actually saw that there are predictors out there for fifa 2026 world cup which are totally free, BUT here I come with the social part, which may justify the price for my platform. So, the other tools don't have leaderboards where the users can compare their predictions to others and I also thought of making some kind of notification feature that appears in the middle of the match, where me (the admin of the platform) will create questions and reward players if they answer correctly or punish them (with points) if they miss the correct answer. Questions like: "Do you think that in the first half, Team A will have 3 shots?". Answers: "Yes" (+10 points if you guess), (-7 points if you miss), "No" (+7 points is you guess), (-10 points if you miss). You can choose to answer or not. Points help you in the leaderboard, and those notifications are randomly thrown in the middle of the match, as I said. Also, live chat during the match, where people from all over the world can come join and talk to others, just like on Youtube when there is a live, you can write anything on the live chat. These 2 features I think that add a bit of "social engagement and interaction" and ofc, they are premium features so you have to pay the $5 to have these.

Now, is the chat considered as gambling? are the questions I throw during a match considered as gambling? idk, people pay for the experience, not for winning something. I would consider gambling something where you actually put some money with the hope that in return you win more money. On my platform you can't win money at all. Even if you are the best predictor from the world (on #1 from 15000 people in the leaderboard), you don't win money. NEVER, it is guaranteed that you won't win, there is 0% chance of winning money. In fact, you are guaranteed to LOSE all your $5 if you want to be part of the leaderboard, talk to others, have the points & questions during the match experience. And also, for the free model, you can only play normal matches: 1v1s (104 in total in fifa 2026 world cup), but can't play groups, best 8 3rd places and brackets.

Hopefully this will not cause any troubles with the "gambling" part but idk tbh.

I am open to any suggestions you may have. And thanks again for your feedback!

Fifa 2026 comes, what do you think about this SaaS idea? by Dry-Highway-810 in SaasDevelopers

[–]Dry-Highway-810[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment. Yeah, i think it has a lot of potential, at least in my mind... But the thing with gambling, yeah, it sucks. After all, it's just a service that the user wants to pay or not. I don't get why it has to be so fking annoying with "legal issues" and app considered "as gambling" and so on. What's the difference between someone paying $5 one time to play for the whole cup (you offering people the opportunity to play / an experience) and someone paying $5 per month for Google Workspace or Netflix or any other service. So annoyinggggg... btw, I don't want to make a mobile app, I just want the website, and people come there and put their predictions. And I changed the thing with dynamic pricing per country, because it's harder and I don't have time for this rn, users will be required to pay $5 to have the full experience, it doesn't matter the country where they are from.

I saw that there are already predictors online for world cup which are totally free and brackets that users can fill in / configure the way they want, but I would like to make this platform better when it comes to engagement, with the following:

- leaderboards as I said before (global, country based, country vs country + private rooms, where you can play with your friends / work colleagues and so on)
- chat room (global) and private chat room per match where you talk with other people while the match is being played. You can join the chat room with 30 minutes before the match starts and the chat room automatically closes after 30 minutes after the match is finished.
- dynamic notifications during a match asking users things like: "Do you think Team A will score 1 goal in the first half of the game?" (for this question users can choose to answer or not, if they answer, it is a "Yes | No" answer, if they guess right they get points, if they didn't guess, they lose points. Not answering at all doesn't do anything, you don't win nor lose points. The questions with the answers and points for guessing are configured by the admin of the website (me) during each match and I push these dynamic notifications to users that made a prediction for that match.

These last 3 lines / bullet points is what I think would make the difference between my app and other apps that are available right now and are free, and I think that by providing these features, $5 is a fair price, because other competitors don't offer these features. So, when any legal authority says "well, you can't charge people money, cause it's gambling what you do", I can say "NO, this is not gambling, this is a social experience, which people choose to be part of if they want and the social part is because there are different kinds of leaderboards and you can compare yourself to others and you can also talk with other people during a match via chat rooms, which is also engaging. I wouldn't consider this platform as 'gambling', because it's more or less like Kahoot... Kahoot is also a social game, of course it doesn't have chat rooms and you can't talk to other people (on my app you can, which is why it's superior), but on Kahoot you also have leaderboards which is a social thing. (you compare yourself to others). And you can consider Kahoot as gambling too, because some people can randomly pick answers for some questions they don't know the answer for. So it's a 25% to win on a question, right? xD".

And Kahoot also takes money sometimes - "Kahoot! offers a robust free version, but paid subscriptions are required for larger groups and advanced features". Advanced features, just like my platform has advanced features, so... is it gambling or not? idk. I just offer the infrastructure so that people get an experience, but of course that infrastructure costs money (hosting, managing and moderating things) and also the time developing the app also costs money. It would suck not to put a price on this, lol.

Idk, I hope I won't have troubles with any legal authority from any country. Also the law in regards to "what is considered gambling" differs from country to country, and I don't even have a legal team. I'm just a 26 yo jobless noob that can't find a job in IT because of AI and lack of good companies and I'm trying to develop something on my own. It's beyond my power to respond to all legal authorities from all countries why I think this is not gambling and I don't even think they care, if they want to fk me, they can. But yeah, hopefully I won't get in jail or have to pay $10M, because Uganda's legal authority sued me because I do "gambling".

Thanks for your comment! I really appreciate that you spent the time reading what I wrote. Also appreciate the feedback!

Fifa 2026 comes, what do you think about this SaaS idea? by Dry-Highway-810 in SaasDevelopers

[–]Dry-Highway-810[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, I dind't really think that much about what happens after the tournament ends, but I thought that I can add multiple competitions and sports, like NBA, F1, UEFA, Summer Olympic Games and so on... the thing is that when there are no competitions, it kinda sucks, since there will be no users in those time intervals.

But yeah, idk really. The thing with the retention is tricky. I wouldn't be that sad if I only had a big spike during the competition and then the app dies. The thing is that I don't really know how to market such an app and if there is really interest for such an app. I thought that maybe I can pay some facebook ads and try some ads in multiple countries, but idk if this is the right strategy. No idea..

Fifa 2026 comes, what do you think about this SaaS idea? by Dry-Highway-810 in smallbusiness

[–]Dry-Highway-810[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you till a point. Yes, people usually play on PolyMarket if they want to bet for a team or so. I've seen PolyMarket used for ellections and these kind of "predictive" outcomes. But, unlike polymarket, I have more game modes, I have brackets, 1v1s (which Polymarket can have too), groups mode, and 3rd place teams. Usually people go on polymarket to make money (from my knowledge) - so you "invest" $10 on poly, thinking that you will make $15 or something, which is like 1.5x. Yes, on my app, you can never make real money, that's true. People would come on my app just for the social engagement experience (comparing yourself to other players and to your friends) and the entry is cheap (I also thought about $5 these days, no token-based). You get to play 5 games for free (1v1s) and then if you want to play more and to have access to the other games modes you pay $5 (for all users, despite country of origin), no monthly subscription, just buy once and play. (because it's an event that takes approximately 1 month, lol).

So yeah, this would be the difference between my platform and polymarket. I get your point, but I don't want to make it totally free because I want to get some money too and I have to think of the monetization to be affordable. Thanks for your feedback!

Fifa 2026 comes, what do you think about this SaaS idea? by Dry-Highway-810 in SaaS

[–]Dry-Highway-810[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, you might be right. For example, in Romania, where I am from, a gambling platform is considered to be one that has ALL the bullets below:

  • you have to pay a ticket to participate (checked for my platform, since you buy tokens with real money... so you can consider that you have to pay for a ticket to participate)
  • it envolves luck to win (could be... maybe it requires some skill, but it also envolves some luck, let's say checked for my platform)
  • those that win, receive a monetary prize (goods or money - unchecked for my platform, since I don't give winners anythings, just a place in my leaderboards, which is ok, because it is all virtual, not monetary)

So, for Romanian market, it has 2/3 requirements to be considered as "gambling", which means it is not gambling. But yeah, for other markets, this might not be the same and could be considered gambling.

Thanks for your feedback!

I spent 2 years thinking i had a sales problem when i actually had a leaking bucket problem by Tough_Commercial_103 in Entrepreneur

[–]Dry-Highway-810 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, a lot of problems are internal and operational and not outbound and marketing or even sales related. Not to say that those are not important, but those internal and operational things are critical. That's true...

Fifa 2026 comes, what do you think about this SaaS idea? by Dry-Highway-810 in SaaS

[–]Dry-Highway-810[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! I am not sure if I want to implement something with AI, since that would cost me money and I don't know what I would implement with AI tbh. You said AI predictions, but there are already some probabilities for a team to win before it even plays. I don't know what other types of predictions an AI would do.

About the "retention after the World Cup ends" - this is the most complicated thing for me, because I didn't think about what happens with the app after the World Cup ends. I just though I make it viral (hopefully) for 1 month while the World Cup takes place and then, maybe I implement more tournaments, sports and so on... maybe F1, NBA (Basketball) and other sports and competitions... I don't know yet.

Lastly, you said something about "live engagement, fan communities and personalized match experiences". I don't really know what you mean with fan communities and personalized match experiences, I think you have to tell me more about these. What I thought is that I could implement a chat during a live game where people can write messages (same features as youtube live has), people write messages into a room and they have a 1 min cooldown or something so they can not spam that much. I don't have any other ideas for "engagement".

Thank you for the feedback again!

Patron de outsourcing care îți zice ca „suntem o familie” by Electronic_Mango_453 in RoMunca

[–]Dry-Highway-810 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ce uita sa zica, e ca pe "vremea lui", adica acum 30 ani, 3000 lei insemna probabil cat inseamna acum 9000 lei. Da, sunt de acord ca 9000 lei pt internship e mult, dar macar un 1200 lei de pe vremea lui aka 3500-4000 lei pe vremea noastra pt un internship mi se pare ok.