Bump.

I had a bar in my pool room and I once asked a kid for an ID. And he shows me a picture of himself. And the guy standing next to him said he asked you for an ID not your IQ. That just seems so funny at the time.

Hi Caleb,

Thanks for the kind words and sharing the video. It was good to see you making these shots.

That’s actually exactly how this is designed to be used — and you’ve worded it really well.

Nothing here is trying to replace good coaching or in-person guidance. Where this layer becomes powerful is that it turns improvement into a measurable loop rather than a feeling-based one. Instead of “that felt better”, you can literally see whether your timing, alignment bias, cue-ball efficiency and placement accuracy have shifted — and by how much.

The real workflow is:

Analyse > Adjust > Re-submit > Compare > Lock in gains

That way you’re not just being told what to work on — you’re proving that what you worked on actually changed something meaningful. And once players see their own bias clusters tightening, centre error shrinking, efficiency improving, etc., progress becomes very real very quickly.

In that sense it becomes less like “remote coaching” and more like a performance lab you can keep coming back to — and that’s where it starts to get fun.

I'm still in BETA with the web app but will be hoping to launch it soon as I need to add in some instructional videos explaining a few things etc.

Any shot can be analyzed. So if players have a particular shot they could submit that and the same data can be produced of course. So you'd get the hard data combined with my personal feedback and suggestions along with AI suggestions based on the data.

After launch, any player wishing to sign up will have to pick a base pillar assessment of one of three shots -

Perfect Draw Shot (which is the one you did)
Perfect Stop Shot
Perfect Follow Shot

They submit this shot through the site in a video of 10 shots in one continuous take (not edited).

I then analyse the video and create the data along with the other feedback mentioned above and submit it back to the player. They then work on it and send in another video of the same shot 10 times again. Then in the follow up report the data can be compared and validated.

This then forms the baseline assessment for the player and then they can submit any shots they like (or just do one of the core pillar shots again).

High scoring shots can be shared by the player to the public leaderboard and facebook if desired.

There is also a clans feature where players can create a clan and invite other players into it to compare data.

I forgot to add that I can pretty much cater for all table sizes, including Chinese 8 Ball.

I always enjoy this thread when I see a new post bumping it to the top of the forum.

I am not a ball collector, but I do enjoy this thread. A book on balls would be similar to the Blue Books of Cues... A very cool and important document. Although as originally stated, a niche market.

Price lowered

Rubik's Cube said:

Thank you so much, gentlemen.

You might indeed be right on the pricing, Alphadog. The thing is though, dear chap, I start from a position of not being concerned about making a profit… as long as I don’t lose too much I’ll be happy just to create something nice.

We’re reasonably confident of being able to handle the necessary pre-production work ourselves… descriptive text, page layout, cover design, photography, etc. This would be time consuming, of course, but I’m retired and enjoy that sort of thing anyway. And it would save a lot of money!

Regards the printing and binding of a high quality 200-page book, tentative research suggests costs in the region of $20 per book might just about be possible based on an order of 200 copies. It could yet prove to be a pipe dream for sure, but I’m hoping that gives the project a fighting chance of getting off the ground.

Thank you all so much for your thoughts. As ever they are much appreciated.

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I suggest you look at Amazon’s kindle direct publishing (kdp) for your book so you don’t have to manage shipping and order fulfillment. It’s how I’ve handled my book.

Like others in this thread, I would also buy a copy. This thread has already cost me plenty of money, although it’s been well worth it.

Good luck!