To several of the authors here, "thanks, I needed that".<p>I have the software written, and it appears to run as intended. Now, doing computer <i>systems management</i>, silly stuff; main problem, getting past bad documentation, e.g., was just up all night working with video adapters, device drivers, display resolution, font scaling, HDMI, display port, flickering cursors, etc. Since the documentation was so bad, I did take some notes on the more important things I learned, e.g., by the TIFO
(try it and find out) Method. The results are not perfect but are good enough for now. I can delay more until the business is growing nicely (if it ever does). That is, for now concentrate on giving people "something they want" and put video issues way down on the TODO list.<p>But a concern: If such silly technical stuff does go well, then I could be going live on the Internet fairly soon. Then some of the issues might be:<p>(1) publicity and getting the first users<p>(2) getting advertisers<p>(3) billing and accounting<p>So, from this thread and a few hours at Google this week, I just concluded: For nearly all that stuff, nearly every business has to do it. So, there are well polished options for how to do it, and I can put it low on the TODO list for now.<p>For what to do if the business starts to grow, I saw some of that at FedEx and elsewhere. Right, as in this thread, focus on providing "what people want", the work, and the revenue. E.g., if I get a lot of users, then that should help getting some advertisers. Then will need billing and accounting, and, uh, there is no shortage of people who can provide such <i>services</i> for me -- getting the revenue is the hard part; given the revenue, it stands to be easy to work with an accounting service! Or, for a lot "I don't know how to do it, but there are plenty of people who do."<p>In particular, for management and in particular <i>engineering management</i>, I've seen, been in, and done some of it and conclude now that my business will be nicely successful before I will have to look into the <i>theories</i> of it. In particular, I saw several cases of guys really eager to work hard, occasionally all night, get good stuff done, with no credit from any <i>management</i>.<p>For the core <i>technical</i> stuff, my efforts have some of that, and it should be a business advantage, uses some of my experience and Ph.D. in applied math, I would say beats AI, and easy for me -- early on in the effort I wrote up the math in Knuth's math word processing TeX. Then used the write up when I wrote the code (Windows, IIS, .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, platform invoke, etc.). So, the core technical stuff is done, not even on the TODO list! On with the rest with the balances as often in this thread.