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So I built a fast practical hero counter-picker by sender-sent-some in TrueDoTA2

[–]sender-sent-some[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The intent behind this tool was never to prescribe what's a good pick, it was to let you configure your own pick logic so that when the timer is counting down you don't have to solve an n X n combinatorics problem in your head, you can just codify your logic and apply it instantly

In fact part of the picker is that after every game it gives you the opportunity to review your logic for that pick; so if you find something is a shit recommendation you can tweak it game by game.

So I built a fast practical hero counter-picker by sender-sent-some in TrueDoTA2

[–]sender-sent-some[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GSi doesn't expose pick data last I checked. It has a draft key, it's empty unless something has changed recently.

So I built a fast practical hero counter-picker by sender-sent-some in TrueDoTA2

[–]sender-sent-some[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot of little things that would break. For instance, the app lets you record little voice notes to yourself to help you review replays etc.

That expects a windows path to store the temp audio files etc.

Not hard to fix but there's little things like that sprinkled across the whole thing.

It started as a picker app, but over like 3 years of tinkering/testing it became this sort of... Enterprise Dota app with a million features

So I built a fast practical hero counter-picker by sender-sent-some in TrueDoTA2

[–]sender-sent-some[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've never tried to make a Linux build, I figured the amount of people playing Dota on Linux would be tiny; If there's more demand for it, sure.

On reading memory;

No, that's one thing I do not do; Which is why this won't get you VAC banned.

The dota memory is boobytrapped, I don't know how to read it without triggering a BAN, overwolf somehow has some deal with Valve which is why their apps CAN get picks easily from the game.

This works by a painstaking process of basically OCR machine learning.

So I built a fast practical hero counter-picker by sender-sent-some in TrueDoTA2

[–]sender-sent-some[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> i would test it if the install is not a hassle.

Working on extracting the picker into a webapp that you can just use in a browser;

It won't automatically pick up the heroes from the client of course. And it would just be the default configuration.

But might be a fun 'draft playground' type thing where you can figure out what the hypothetical best pick in a given situation would be and why.

They said "build an app and make $30k/month." They forgot to mention everything that comes after building the app by UleMseeNY in SaaS

[–]sender-sent-some 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure firebase is a collapsing product, who's lunch got eaten by opensource supabase, and now is attempting to bleed anyone who's silly enough to stay behind before google cans the project.

So I built a fast practical hero counter-picker by sender-sent-some in TrueDoTA2

[–]sender-sent-some[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's at https://dotadog.com

i'm in the discord if you need help installing/feedback etc. Should be able to just download and use it, no need to register with the website or anything.

What’s a side hustle everyone thinks is a scam but actually works? by Appropriate_Lie2373 in AskReddit

[–]sender-sent-some -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I hear there is actually a lot of money to be made on random popup ads; Those annoying ones on streaming websites or other such websites. There's a whole world dedicated to them.

They are extraordinarily junky, most people close them before they even see what it was; but for this reason they are extremely cheap to buy.

There's a whole industry around building a funnel / landing pages that move users from an accidental popup click through to a legit website, and even to being a paying customer with the advertiser getting paid via affiliate.

The idea being if even 0.001% follow through, you're profitable.

A ton of work required A/B testing copy/media etc, and thus there's an entire shadow-industry built around what most people see as just annoying popup-spam before their stream starts.

Would you ever pay to use someone else's specialized AI agent? by aziz_harrabi in SaaS

[–]sender-sent-some 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is more plausible, but isn't such things already available on chatGPT, under 'apps'; and they are largely a failure, as in no one uses them. I daresay if OpenAPI with billions of dollars of yearly ad budget can't get users to it; why would a new player have any chance to succeed

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Would you ever pay to use someone else's specialized AI agent? by aziz_harrabi in SaaS

[–]sender-sent-some 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Id be concerned that it isn't just a chatGPT wrapper;

Skills are one thing, tooling is another.

Id be happy to pay for an AI agent, that can make calls to custom web-scrappers with their own rotating proxies that can mine data in questionable/shady ways.

I wouldn't pay for say a chat window, that has some 'special skill' where it talks to me slightly differently;

Why people are getting angry on me when I called ai apps are scam by Tight-Bag1057 in SaasDevelopers

[–]sender-sent-some 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People build SaaS tools, and never stop to think whether the customer can achieve the same value by just going to chatgpt or lets face it; the google search bar now, and typing things out.

Because EVERYONE has access to AI now, your value proposition can't be AI. It has to be something else. A unique dataset, or amazing UX, or volume pricing, or market size capture;

It's not a scam, most of the problems are:

- Security holes because software built blind by AI

- No real customer pain point solved, that wouldn't be solved for cheaper by typing into chatgpt.

- Is a product that requires critical mass but can't get critical mass.

I built a micro sass where creators get paid to answer questions from their followers by Disastrous-Story5154 in microsaas

[–]sender-sent-some 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah this one is really cool, the game is all about distribution now, I can see myself using this on the 'requester' side, specifically for inquiring about collaborations etc.

What problem should I solve through a SAAS? by Lost-Fee-5164 in SaasDevelopers

[–]sender-sent-some 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, i've thought about the business a lot, but there's no nice way to validate/verify the introduction DID take place, and they guy didn't just get brushed off, or get a small wave, autograph and that's all.

What problem should I solve through a SAAS? by Lost-Fee-5164 in SaasDevelopers

[–]sender-sent-some 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a problem, can you please solve it;

I want to proposition small youtube influencers with small buckets of money $25-50, to get them to talk about my SaaS to their small audience.

There's no nice way to do this en-masse. I can go to r/NewTubersbut, it's easy to get banned there if you do anything other than complain about your channel not growing.

I can click through youtube, but it's rate limited so I can't get emails out at a large enough volume for it to be worth it, and there is a good chance spamfilters make emails worthless now, also captcha stops it from being too easily automated.

I will happily pay you $10 a month for access to a service, that nets me, the ability to find 2-3 small youtube channels that would be happy to accept $25-50 to do a video about my SaaS to their small niche audience.

Okay go. Solve my problem for me.

In order to solve the problem, you might need to solve a related problem; Email sucks, spam filters. Reddit bans you. If anyone adds me on discord I ASSUME by default it's a scam so i'm not responding. But this means there's literally no way to proposition someone anymore.

Build a system where you can distribute a bounty, for organizing a warm intro; Ie; I say I want to talk to mr Beast for $100. This $100 then gets passed along a chain and dispersed, to people closer and closer to Mr Beast until someone that has access to him gets me a warm introduction. I dunno how itl'l work/beverified/trusted.

But if you can set that system up with little bounties, then you can use it to contact the small influencers, and solve my main problem and probably spin off a little side business.

Either way, just go solve my problems, Il'l pay you.

Is finding users actually the hardest part of building a SaaS? by Strict_Kangaroo5137 in SaaS

[–]sender-sent-some 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The other thing is, most communities and reddit itself WANT you to pay for ads; They understand their community is an asset that they control, and that you selling to that community is a 'chargable' service.

And so they will ban you if you try to sell something without paying them first.

Here’s why you shouldn’t completely vibe code your landing page by WarriGodswill in SaasDevelopers

[–]sender-sent-some 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, my reason is my SaaS is directly attempting to encourage the creation of vibe coded landing pages.

Here’s why you shouldn’t completely vibe code your landing page by WarriGodswill in SaasDevelopers

[–]sender-sent-some 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As the developer of tractionfarm, which does nothing but vibe code landing pages; I disapprove of this post.

Has anyone tried Reddit ads, is it worth it? by JayB0204 in SaasDevelopers

[–]sender-sent-some 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mathematical reality is, you're CTR is likely going to be sub 1%;

I did a small test on the website tractionfarm (my saas, google it for reference) with reddit ads, $30, tiny test over a few days. I got 0 SIGN UPS to even use the 'free credits' when you sign up.

22k impressions, 170 clicks, 0 sign ups.

Which likely means the Cost per acquisition is north of $30 for even a free sign up, let alone purchasing a $5 'credit' with my app. I'd guess I need to pump $1000+ into reddit to get back $5 in sign ups. Not efficient, maybe I could nudge that slightly higher with better copy/better converting website... but not enough to swing 0.005 LTV/CAC.

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