let me clarify something since i said something in the other thread.
about products and competition.
since the dawn of time, when one person has a product that works and works well, they are copied, varied in structure to be different, and marketed to the SAME market. therein lies the angle to success. it doesn not matter who created what first(well, when you don't have a patent on the product in question anyhow). it matters do you have the delivery mechanism to get people to use your product over another. your delivery to your target audience is where you succeed or fail. many wonderful products have failed in the history of products because of terrible marketing, or no marketing tactics. the same is true for bad products. there are some very terrible products that wildly succeeded because they had a great marketing plan and a significan angle of approach on the market they were competing for. i would think that in the very short future, tubcgi,(which i also feel is a great piece of software, but havent used it), and TEVS will have a few more (2-4) competitors in your market. what will set you all apart and make you attractive to your suitors will obviously be features. now, what i would do in each of your situations is work very closely with the people that will use the product to build in the features that the initial supporters want, (considering they are intelligent ones), and then use those features that set you apart to target your more focused group of customers. there are severl tgp scripts. theres nothing anywhere to say that a few tube scripts can't get along anywhere.
so, with that said. find yourself an incredible marketing person, someone who is known and can get the word out there, cut them in on getting installs, and watch some money come in.
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good luck to ya both.
p.s. i referenced TEVS because i've seen it most, then saw your thread. yes i did see your running around first, but like i said in my post, unless you patent something right up front through that ridiculously long process, (sometimes you'll miss the products very reason for being created if the market moves faster than you can get the patent through), you will always breed competition with creating new markets. embrace it. compete with them, its healthy for the industry.
