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Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
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Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
#22Does this provide real time "coaching"/suggestions during the game for League? I remember there used to be this application called "bwcoach" for Starcraft Broodwar, that would yell at the player if he's not building enough workers, not spending enough resources, not scouting, etc. The capabilities of your League app seem to be easily accessible via multiple other apps (porofessor, op.gg, League client itself), and du…
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#25How do you make money?
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#27I think you're falling into the classic trap of focusing on something scalable rather than something that's effective. I'm sure that your system provides some value, but I think even a mediocre human coach would be 10x more effective. What you're providing is incremental improvements based on statistics, but often in order to progress to the next level of competition players need to reevaluate their gameplay on a fundamental level (posture, mental fortitude, interaction with other players, mental model of the game, etc).
I think getting into that human element also opens alot of interesting opportunities to become more entrenched in the competitive gaming scenes which opens up other revenue streams.
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#28Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
#29What I've seen from paid coaches is that they comment on the game as it goes on, for example telling players to attack the enemy more in lane, and I don't see how this would be replicable without access to LoL's private apis
Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
#30As far as I know there are three types of player versus player (PVP) games: slow paced strategy games (Pokemon), fast paced strategy (Starcraft, League of Legends), action games (Call of Duty, Halo, Fortnite). For the first type of game, having a tool to teach the best strategies makes sense. For the latter two, not so much. From personal experience, fast paced strategy and action games just require a ton of practice…