Is there a specific forum or area in which I could introduce a new pool app to this audience? The Marketplace isn't what I'm looking for - I just want a spot to say 'hey folks, check this out' - without it being considered spam. FWIW, this app will be for serious players who want to track drill progressions, log practice time (and what was practiced), and a slew of other stuff (like scoring for Billiard University Exam I, for example). Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Where to 'introduce' a new pool app?
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You have been here two or three years and made almost a hundred posts. Surely you know that Mike, AZhousePro, is the owner. You want to sell something on his site, you talk to Mike. You want to distribute something on his site for people to try, you talk to Mike.
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I'd vote for the main forum.
Thanks. I think. I'm an infrequent participant here and I've never even wondered who owns the site. I was simply trying to be polite and find the right place (forum, etc.) to tell the players about some new software (when the time comes). Right now, I only have the Windows version (mostly) ready, and it will be available through the Microsoft Store only. The basic version will be free. At any rate, no one seems to be too bothered by the question so I'll assume a future thread in the main forum is ok. Thanks.
The polite thing to do is to contact the owner of a site before using their site to develop or market a commercial product. Also, at a minimum most using the site to further their own interests become gold members and contribute thirty-five dollars or more a year to support the site. Mike will be the first to say that isn't a must, but it is certainly a courtesy. I donated before there was a format to do it and continue now. I don't have anything commercial going on but as an almost daily user I figure I can splurge ten cents a day on the site!
My post from the other night reads a little abrupt because it was edited down from a longer version. Struck me that you were asking how to spam the site without looking like you were spamming the site. The end of a long day and long week, the first version of my post was probably less tactful.
I'll repeat, when you are making use of a site for anything other than the standard reading and posting it is only courtesy to speak to the owner first. Mike will probably tell you to go ahead with what you want to do but then you are doing it with the site owner's blessing instead of act first, beg forgiveness afterwards if you need to.
My short version, my longer version: Talk to Mike.
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