>Gambling seems to have passed its peak some years ago, both in terms of opportunity and social acceptability.
In the US, to me, it seems sports gambling is priming for take off. Many states are legalizing it and you see gambling odds/lines on ESPN now. Many NFL stadiums are about to launch in-game gambling operations. It used to never be acceptable in the US to be out front about sports gambling but the worm has turned.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I suspect this boom will be relatively short-lived. Sure, plenty will get rich off it, but plenty more will be harmed by it, and that harm will fuel the push-back.
The US has the luxury of being able to look at other countries who are ahead of the curve to see how things may pan out.
My broader question to GP is why get involved in such an industry? It does more harm than good, and the writing is very predictably on the wall.
My first was an education technology platform to replace 4th through 8th grade Textbooks. I found out the hard way that the education publishing business is nearly impossible to disrupt.
My second was a context-search engine, but machine learning killed that idea ... fast.
Mach9Poker is just a simple app that allows anyone to build and test poker strategies against other strategies running automatically in the cloud. Pretty harmless and may even help some poker players make more money and lose less...so all in all, I think a good thing to reduce the downsides of playing poker for money. There is a potential pivot to making it an actual gambling app, but that's only if the initial app makes a TON of headway.
I'm also having fun designing and building it. That's what entrepreneurship is all about.
In the US, to me, it seems sports gambling is priming for take off. Many states are legalizing it and you see gambling odds/lines on ESPN now. Many NFL stadiums are about to launch in-game gambling operations. It used to never be acceptable in the US to be out front about sports gambling but the worm has turned.