[Have Patience...]

Hi John & Praney

 

Thanks for your thoughtful replies.

 

I appreciate that it's been difficult for you and the other guys that have stuck with it and got to grips with the software, and that now you feel that it's been worthwhile. But this is akin to the mindset of the linux community - it's tough to learn, but no pain, no gain. I've no problem with that - whatever rocks your boat, as they say. I'm just not the type of guy who is willing to learn sudo get-apt install commands just to get the wifi working on my laptop! Similarly, the instructional videos are out of date and all over the place.

 

My gripe is more about the positioning of ubot to prospective buyers and internet marketers especially, as can be seen from this promo video:

 

http://vimeo.com/11435874

 

and the reality of a software package that has a learning curve akin to xrumer.

 

I've no problem with either positioning, but my original point is that the accompanying instructional material is very weak for a software package in this price bracket, and that without that instructional material, many of the intended customers will be left with a software package that isn't usable. Telling normal users that it's tough but worth it is like telling them to learn command line instructions - just not going to happen.

 

The argument that no instruction is given in practical videos so as to preserve the market for pre-made bots of this nature doesn't stack up, by the way. It's a bit like saying that MS would release versions of Office too complicated for everyday use so that geeks could earn a living selling workarounds.

 

If this is a tool for hardcore enthusiasts, great - so be it. But the pitch that it's a doddle, as per the above video, is misleading, and the supporting instructional material is decidedly lazy.

[Have Patience...]

Good advice in general, per the attitude needed to work with this, or any challenging piece of software, but I'd suggest that the tutorials are severely lacking. They're out of date as compared to the most recent versions of the software and are not at all structured well; more like people just doing a camtasia screen capture of routines and procedures that they already know by heart.

 

For $250 software, the accompanying instructional material is very poor.

 

The developers really need to get off their tail and put together some decent instructions for using this software, not a hotch potch of screencaps that don't really lead the user through a learning experience to arrive at a certain level of competence.

 

I know that those who've mastered the software will say that one needs to stick with it, but I'd suggest that this mentality, and a refusal to at least deliver some decent training material, is similar to the mentality that keeps linux in the realm of geeks and nerds. Most internet marketers don't have the time to learn command line interfaces and just want to accomplish a certain number of objectives.

 

If this is software for internet marketers, the accompanying instructions need to be a hell of a lot better.

 

How about a tutorial on the following:

 

Building a bot for e-mail activation

Building a bot to create user accounts (gmail, yelp, etc.)

Building a bot for submitting reviews to review sites

Building a bot to submit articles

Building a bot to create forum profiles

 

Instead, we've got a hotch potch of tutorials on:

 

creating a bot that will generate a list of 10 usernames,

creating a bot that will visit google, yahoo and msn

etc - good building blocks maybe, but it needs to be drawn together.

 

The fact that there's a market in guys offering to buy and sell bots to do the practical, relatively basic tasks in my proposed list, would suggest that either this thing is too difficult for most internet marketers, or the instructions suck and that the only people who conquer this software are the dedicated geeks, as per linux.