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by mikipalet 814 days ago
So, I have a bunch of friends who regularly bet and were losing lots of money. I've never been interested in that, but it fascinated me that they were so addicted yet kept betting even when they weren't making any money.

I started investigating how to make money betting and realized that the odds were obviously set by bookmakers to make it statistically impossible to profit long term. However, I discovered a method to exploit these bookmakers' odds by comparing the same markets across many of them and finding opportunities in which betting across multiple bookmakers could guarantee a profit regardless of the match outcome.

I looked at available software for these types of bets, called surebets, and found that there were many, but they were either terribly complicated to use or terribly expensive.

So, I thought I could create a simpler and more affordable tool that could be used directly in Telegram and convince my friends to stop draining their money. The bot is now up and running, and some of my friends have successfully been using the tool; one of them has doubled his stake in about 30 days. However, there are others who have continued gambling because that's what they enjoy, and they seem not to be interested in making money.

I'm now trying to market it, but it's difficult here in Spain where I'm from because anything related to betting or gambling is forbidden on almost all platforms.

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And promoting an unscientific commercial product is forbidden on the nerdy Hacker News platform too, for your information.

Unless you write a detailed essay like how the software robot you made acquires its sensibility for producing market comparisons for arbitrage discovery and exploitation. Then everyone wins in that case. Nerds get to learn about sensors for robots and you get to market your commercialist product.