BHW Software Offer Poll

Descriptions of each of the poll options follow along with those options which were rejected and the reasons for rejection. Please remember that as this is a free offering, I will not be creating a hyper-fancy interface and tons of features; just the basic interface needed for correct functionality.

Amazon Feed Reader
Reads Amazon posts and makes it accessible from an RSS feed with support for using your own Amazon Affiliate ID.

SE Keyword Ranker
Ranks a URL against multiple keywords for each of these categories: # Results, # Results when quoted.
Must have feature to control # of searches per hour and # seconds delay between searches

Website Command Sequencer
By far the most powerful option available. It will allow users to record a sequence of POST and GET commands with support for tokens allowing for multiple options for each token.
This program would allow automated bookmarking, posting, submission to RSS directories, etc. For example, one could enter multiple URLs for phpBB forums, store the sequence for creating an account, and have it replayed with randomly-chosen usernames, passwords, etc.

Extract all emails from a POP3-accessible email account
Should be self explanatory. POP3 is available from a variety of email hosts and is a standard for communication on the net.

WP/WPMU Automated Installation
Again, should be self-explanatory. Would be very simple in implementation as this project could very easily grow in size and scope.

Automated Redirection Script
Must be based off of IP, browser, etc. Randomization on each feature is a requirement.

Rejected Options

Offercloak.net
-- Website was down, but I wouldn't be offering this as a continued service anyway.

Blog Slammer (with EBG feature?)
-- Direct competitor with my product. Don't know what EBG means.

Yahoo account creation and yahoo answers initialization
-- I don't know how to break the Yahoo CAPTCHA

All excellent options for an awesome offering, I could only narrow it down to 3 that I think would all be extremely useful and beneficial if used creatively.

Thank you for offering us your services for free I cast my vote for the Amazon Feed Reader!

I voted wrong, haven't read a description.

I voted for SE kexword ranker, but would definitely like a website commander much more

I can't edit the poll, but when it's closed, I'll adjust the numbers accordingly. Thanks for letting me know almir.

Not to sound ungrateful, because I'm far from..so please don't take it that way. This is a very generous offer. I'm curious though, what's with the "Extract all emails from a POP3-accessible email account" vote? There are plenty of tools that already do this, it's a pretty standard feature in mail clients. Am I missing something?

Someone asked for it, so it was added. I have a client who's asked for something similar. Has the email account setup to receive a bunch of garbage and wants the emails extracted from them.

do the mass install wordpressMU script, would be good

automated redirection script would be gud.i voted for that.lets see what other BHW members want.

I think that something like StumbleUpon, Digg and ect. auto exchanger will be great. But if i can choose only from these tools I`ll choose SE Keyword Ranker

tsanko said:

I think that something like StumbleUpon, Digg and ect. auto exchanger will be great. But if i can choose only from these tools I`ll choose SE Keyword Ranker

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by the looks of it website command sequencer can do the bookmarking for you on digg and stumbleupon.

I vote for Website Command Sequencer.

Would Website Command Sequencer be something like iMacros? Or better?

Not sure what iMacros is. I'm thinking of a collection of webpages/form posts to automate most website tasks which don't require things like CAPTCHA.

ContentFarmer said:

Not sure what iMacros is. I'm thinking of a collection of webpages/form posts to automate most website tasks which don't require things like CAPTCHA.

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Imacros is an extention for Fire Fox but why reinvent the wheel, it's highly rated.

I believe (as opposed to know) that iMacros (just looked it up) doesn't allow for random content to be chosen - your username/pass combo is yours and cannot be randomized. Adding in the randomization feature would take it to the next level (e.g. one could login to a random bookmarking account and post a random link to be boomarked).

Am I wrong? If so, then maybe a well-detailed instruction book would be in order here.

Of course, there's the fact that the software I'm writing wouldn't be a browser plugin, but a server tool, so that it could post whenever.

And, the winner is the Website Command Sequencer (feel free to come up with a better name). I'll begin working on that program shortly and post a new thread when an update is ready.

Thanks to all who voted!

Just a quick update. I've been swamped on a gigantic project and a software update, so not much has been done. I will begin in earnest on this this upcoming weekend and hope to have it out approx 10 days later (gives me 2 weekends).

Another update. I've gotten caught up with some "emergency" projects for clients and haven't had time to invest in this just yet, but plan to have it out in the next 7-10 days anyway.

As an additional note, I've been developing some advanced JS for manipulating frames which will facilitate the recording mechanism for this (though, I saw in a forum somewhere that I may have difficulty trying to manipulate the DOM on a separate domain, so we'll see where that goes).

The software is now about 50% done, so I should be able to finish it next weekend for alpha release on 11/17.