Giveaway of the Day Forums » Software Talks

1. AmigaFan
   Member

   Nowadays it seems that everyone can code (i.e., make their own programs).
   This results in a very large amount of poorly coded software available all over the net that can, when used, in some cases even cause undesired effects.

   I've seen a lot of useless programs that do nothing useful at all, but are still priced $$ by their authors! Take for example todays giveaway. Or that utility that some guy wants to publish on GAOTD, you can see his posts in one thread on this forum (I will not name it on purpose).

   It was better in the old days when coding was exotic thing, and not everyone could do it. And those who could, made an interesting, useful, professional and reliable pieces of work often at no cost at all. Today, kids just put a template web page on a free server host, and there you have a "Buy now!" button for a program that was written in some form of BASIC and has about 20 lines of human-generated code.

   If you can put a few IFs and THENs in Visual Basic that doesn't make you a programmer.

   Posted 9 months ago #

2. Lee
   Administrator

   Shame I can't publish my ZX81 16kb games.

   Took me days to make.

   It's good that people are learning, as for our mistakes we learn.

   Not just kids that do this, a couple of years ago a 68 year old cracker and programmer was jailed for creating a trojan that stole information from major financial institutions.

   Posted 9 months ago # | Login to Send PM

3. Archangel
   Member

   They ain't caught me yet!! LOL

   Posted 9 months ago #

4. goodgotd
   Member

   Hey, if you look at it from a different angle, today's giveaway could be quite useful- just not for the original programs.

   Gotta think outside the box, that's all...

   Posted 9 months ago #

5. AmigaFan
   Member

   Thanks for all your cool replies guys!
   It is however good for GAOTD if the visitors/members are honestly nagging about low quality of software. It is very bad when someone says "it doesn't matter how good software offered is, as long as it is free" because:

   - developers motivation for publishing their software on GAOTD is not only to get paid, it is also a great opportunity for them to get - rich and down-to-earth feedback from large number of various types of users all over the world.
   - many developers can, and many more in the future will, use GAOTD to find out what the potential users want and need on the software market, and instead making lengthy surveys or even pay professional analysts, they get all this reaction from great number of users fast, for free *AND* they get paid by GAOTD.
   - For developers, GAOTD is like if you go out to get some bread, and shop assistant not only gives you a bread for free, but also pays you instead of you having to pay for bread.

   Furthermore:

   - Because of special GAOTD policy, developers are *not* in need to provide *any* support to GAOTD users for their product they are using. So developers can just sit back, relax and (in practically realtime) watch how users react on their software without need to worry about giving technical support, updates etc. to all these users.
   - And finally, this way, by quality and down-to-earth feedback of GAOTD users, GAOTD will become well known, recognized and relevant place for Quality Assurance of software. GAOTD is for software like 3DMark is for graphics cards. A human benchmark.

   So, if developers want to get free QA for their software *fast* (and get paid while they are at it) there is probably only one best solution: giveawayoftheday.com
   So in conclusion of this (more article than post :) is that smart developers will see that GAOTD is here not just for end-users, but maybe even more for developers.

   Posted 9 months ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.