PokerPall was created out of personal necessity. Every time my friends and I would play a game of poker we would run into the same problems, mainly because none of us owned a proper professional poker set.
At the start of the night it's a struggle to count out who gets how many chips. How many chips do we put aside for rebuys, do we want add-ons, what if we have a late joiner? And every night we would play, we would do so at someone else's house, with a different set. Then the middle part of the night which is trying to keep the blinds going at a semi consistent rate, tracking rebuys while we're at it, and likely missing a rebuy here or there. Fast forward to the end of the night at 3am and all you want to do is go home, rest and not deal with trying to figure out who-owes-who how much...
This is where the idea for a single poker utility app, that does all of this, originated from. It calculates who gets how many chips, it keeps track of rebuys, of the game timer and blinds, and at the end of the night produces a easy to share game summary overview. Which includes the who-pays-who overview.
After using it myself for a few games I am confident the product is in a place where it can also help others. Hence why I'm out here trying to show the product. It's still not all the way there yet, but I am determined to keep developing it.
What stood out to me is that you didn't build a better poker timer—you built something that removes all the little interruptions that stop people from enjoying the night. Counting chips, tracking rebuys, figuring out who owes what... none of those are why people get together to play. If PokerPall consistently gets those out of the way, that's a much stronger value proposition than any individual feature.
I appreciate it, that's exactly what I want PokerPall to do for the user. Remove all the little interruptions so they can focus on playing and having fun.
That's exactly what I was getting at.
Your reply made me think about one implication that could end up changing how you think about PokerPall, but it's probably too much to unpack properly in a thread.
Happy to explain what I mean if it's useful. What's the best email to reach you on?