Hey guys, I have recently started up a venture with a small group and we are working on a big project that could be huge and awesome.
Heres my pitch ive posted all over facebook
Got a question for everyone ..... Would you use a mobile app that allowed you to play skill oriented games like Fruit Ninja or Tetris against others if you could win money and prizes within 15 - 30 seconds?
Follow our page if you are interested, I have some big things planned.
also, if you want to be useful, I have a survey you could fill in with helpful details that would let me find out my target audience and what they are looking for.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KTB29X7
Pretty much, you play against other human players and compete for prizes on a grand scale. The entrance fee is mere cents or even nothing depending on advertisements and the prizes range between movie tickets to even sports cars (yes, real cars). If you want to simplify this, its like the grownups version of Timezone where you play for prizes on games you can actually win.
I am currently at a Business Startup event and this idea was voted in the top 8 of almost 100 ideas to compete for funding. The more people that join the group, the more likely this idea can get off the ground. The contest isnt even over yet and ive already got at least two investors that want to talk to me as well as offers from people begging to work on this project after the event.
After the event I have offers from several retailers offering their wares as prizes and I plan to take it even bigger and go for huge worthwhile prizes like holidays, cars... hell even houses... the scope is just that big.
Is this gambling?
This is gambling in the same sense that Timezone is gambling. So no. Because I will be offering games of Skill rather than games of chance, this is just a profitable game for everyone... not a casino.