Unfortunately I have to post this here, as I am still a newbie
I have recently become interested in working with a skilled programmer to develope a website primarily for bitcoin fueled video poker, but with the capacity to expand to other games such as slots or BJ. The concept is very similar to luckco.in but with a more stable environment and making it a little more like an actual casino by expanding on his basic design. Further expansions would ultimately include different games, such as dueces wild, bonus, and hundred hand poker as well as blackjack or other games that one would find in a casino, and requests from players(by a very user friendly feedback system). I feel that a real stable website with enough versatility and promotions could achieve a pretty vast player base. Ultimately I would like to take this concept and expand into the app market with it, because I started thinking, why do people stop playing? To go to work/errands/whatever else, and an app would make it so they could continue playing even while away from a computer, but this idea would be after the inital website took off of course.
I will admit that I am quite a newbie when it comes to programming things like this. This is why I am looking for a partner. Your job would be the coding and getting it to run and continually run/develope and I would provide the funding for servers/payouts, while doing what I can to come up with ideas and what not to help you. Obviously this is a for profit venture, (lets face it casinos are in business for a reason and with a 95% payout structure we still make money), and I propose this as a payout structure. At the beginning when it is getting going, I pay fees and starting capital out of pocket and we split profit 50/50, after the website has been running and starts to make more per month than a server costs, we pay server costs first then split the remaining 50/50. Open to ideas on this though.
Biggest things to take into account are security and ease of deposit, I want people to feel secure putting money on the site and being able to play immediatly after sending bitcoins. Another important aspect is replay-ability, this will come by making the games fun and visually appealing. The main problem that I have with luckco is that you have to reload the website every 5 minutes because it crashes and also doesnt work on internet explorer. These are all things to fix and by having them will take market share.
Obviously you will need to be comfortable coding and able to make changes and add on to basic designs. If interested you can contact me and we can work on talks about implementing this. I would also assume (although I dont know for sure) that this will consume pretty low amounts of bandwidth and as such wont require too expensive of a server, again not completely sure. Please let me know your thoughts.
Any other ideas welcome, looking forward to hearing from you and creating a fun and secure gaming environment using bitcoins!