Teaser - Polywick Story Server

Posted by Bobby Parker
Feb 26, 2019 at 04:33 PM

I could venture an opinion here.

So I’m a software engineer. I’ve written about, oh, 5 or so prototypes of my own started-out-as-an-EccoPro-clone App, 3 in Adobe AIR, 1 in Unity, and then I ventured forth into Electron (I know that sounds confusing).

This is me, btw, so you know I’m on the level here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sh0rtwave/

From a particular perspective(especially these days with much more powerful development systems available), EccoPro is a *trivially* easy thing to duplicate(I oughta know, I’ve built multiple applications that *vastly* exceed it’s power). It’s data structures, and methods of operation, database-wise, while functional and legitimately still useful, remain dated, and problems that plagued it have long since been solved by more sophisticated applications.

So, what I would like to see, that I would find useful (as I was just using EccoPro just last November), is if your application can truly handle data in excess of the limits of the original EccoPro. Show me that, and I will get behind you 100%. It’s entirely possible, that if you can show me that, I’d buy a copy, I actually got excited when I saw your screenshots, and you should know that I did get excited, in spite of the fact that I’ve written many more powerfully-scoped things (https://imgur.com/XAetnsS

<--like this. This was every bit as powerful as Palantir).

So, let's dispense with the argument about whether or not you've got code, nobody cares about your code. Show us a video, of it operation, demonstrating how gracefully it will handle exceeding those original limits, and I'm telling you. I will buy it.

Polywick Studio wrote:

TightBeam, r634718 , and Washere:
> >Prove it that this is “photoshopped” as you claim it to be. The code
>behind for the screens are present. subpoena us for the source code so
>you can inspect it.
> >Show which image was “photoshopped”, since many screenshots of the app
>was made for documentation purposes (help file).
> >>Otherwise after a week if no one gets an actual beta as he just
>offered,
>>someone might contact medium.com mods to read this thread and remove
>his
>>posts. Might be just another internet scam out of Philippines.
> >And the other apps listed on the forums? They have had lengthy beta-test
>times, some more than a year of no development, and how come they are
>not scams?
> >The apps which the authors abandon their development, how come they are
>not scams, which cannot do a one-pane outliner?
> >StoryServer was made in development for a very long time. There was much
>time figuring out the Print, Filters, Sum, Sort, Column commands.
> >You have no idea as to the difficulty of the work that is being done,
>and all the complexity to make a one-pane organizer.
> >Go ahead and do it, we’ll file a counter-claim and that will trigger a
>full lawsuit, if that’s what you want.
> >@Washere, you’d do well to state your real name now, since this is now
>slander and untowards of the spirit of this website.
> >