Overnight 55% of my business – the entire US portion of my customers – could no longer play online poker, and no longer wanted my software. Online poker in the USA was switched off. More requests came for a Windows version, and I was thinking again about doing it.Īnd then came Poker’s Black Friday. Some features were helpful to poker players some were essential things that I should have done already in version 1, such as the not-too-revolutionary idea of persisting user data to the disk so that hand histories didn’t need to be imported anew each time you started Poker Copilot. I had added most of the high-demand features. We might release a Windows version later this year but we have no definite plans at this stage.”Ī year later, Poker Copilot was in version 2. We started Poker Copilot because there was no Mac software for poker tracking. I sent this response to anyone who asked for a Windows version: I then implemented the requests in order.Īnd so, I listened to our Mac customers, and didn’t yet create a Windows version. I would regularly weigh up the relative likely workload of each request and my time constraints as a one-person operation. I kept a feature request list in an order of most-demanded to least-demanded. Really listening and not just sending placating answers like, “sure, maybe, could be, sorry.” I listened to what people were requesting. Listening to users was one of those business things I claimed I was doing. I was overwhelmed with responses from loyal users, my early adopters, desperately saying, “No! Please don’t! Please add a ton of new features before getting distracted with making a Windows version.” In 2009, I mentioned on the Poker Copilot blog that I was considering a Windows version. It did compile and run, so I knew it was possible. I even amused myself in my then-day-job as a Windows-based freelancer developer by seeing if I could make Poker Copilot compile and run on Windows. Poker Copilot is mostly written in Java Java runs on Windows just as well as it does on Mac porting it seemed like a feasible endeavour. “Why not also a Windows version, too?,” I asked myself. Or features they thought would be pretty nifty. My early customers wrote every day with requests for features they wanted, needed, couldn’t live without. The software industry traditionally calls this version 1.0, although more recently the term of non-endearment is “Minimum Viable Product” (MVP). Poker Copilot quickly got a substantial amount of users, as online poker was in its big boom, and there was no Mac alternative to products like Poker Tracker. The first release of Poker Copilot for Mac was in a primitive form. For Mac has always been my “unique selling proposition”: I create native Mac poker HUD and tracking software. Poker Copilot for Mac was released in 2008. That question is from early 2009, less than a year after Poker Copilot’s initial Mac launch. Could you please let me know if there is one. “I cannot find available a Windows version of Poker Copilot. (I’m writing this in the style of “why use 100 words when 1,000 words will do?”) Porting “Poker Copilot for Mac” to Windows: the long story
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