Just a quick "thank you"-note to these 29 nice folks at lotterypost who not only took the effort to participate in this thread, but didn't mind to share their findings with the ones who didn't participate : "4mybrdz, alexiega, bellyache, budward, CalifDude, CARBOB, cps10, csenior, emilyg, Fibonacci, FrankieH, kayee, LANTERN, LottoChica23, msmusic, paint1, paurths, payne, psykomo, ram, reddog, richm17087, Rick G, Suja, takeitez, tntea, Todd, truecritic and WIN D : Thank you very much for trying out this brand new tool, and for the incredibly positive comments."
Now, for those who are still reluctant to share their findings with others, let me explain something to you...
I made this tool freely available to the online lottery community. It doesn't cost you a single penny to try it out or to further use it! Now, the big question remains... how much did it cost me ? Well, that's a bit hard to figure it out since I created this tool in my free time and did everything myself : the thinking process, the programming, the website-layout, etc...
Now, just out of curiosity, last week, I went to 3 "professional" software-houses in Belgium, explained them what I wanted (I basically told them how my tool should look like without letting them know that the tool already was created by myself) and asked them for a quick estimate on how much a tool like that would cost. The cheapest one (a small company with only 2 employees)estimated it at 15,000$, the most expensive one estimated it at 33,000$. Now the big surprise is this... These estimates did not include any of the "thinking work" since I showed them an rough blueprint on how my website and the tool should look like. So go figure it out how much this tool is worth.
Nevertheless, I am glad I made 29 (non-selfish) people extremely happy with this wonderful tool. Thank you once more !!!!!!!!
Stefan
P.S. Those who are with me...