[Lord Brar]

Since the Beta Launch for the Underground was delayed due to a lot of hiccups with the software conversion, I thought that I would post a Road-Map / Vision thread for UBot Underground and how we plan to go about it.

Vision Statement: So what exactly do we plan to achieve with UBot Underground?

The idea with UBot Underground is simply to create a kick-ass resource for marketing automation. Right now the market is full of so many training products, coaching sites and stuff like that which is either totally useless or just too overwhelming.

The idea with UBot Underground is to create a marketing resource community around the concept of automation. Modules and Sections for Traffic / Leads Generation (SEO, PPC, WH, BH etc.), Domains, Affiliate Marketing and maybe more -- and bots to automate those ideas.

And while I, Seth and rest of the team have extensive experience in marketing and domains but we do not claim to know it all or be gurus. UBot Underground has to be a community and a collective effort. And the best damn community out there with tools that can actually be used for something that produces results.

Road-Map for Underground

Create Sections - The first step is to create proper sections to organize the information. Over last 10 years, I have written whole lot of posts on forums, blogs and premium-sections of forums which I can port here to kick-start the things. I will also invite my industry friends to get involved in discussions.

Obviously, the strength of the community is in the quality of discussions. If the topics are interesting and has a high signal to noise ratio, people will come! And we plan to make it even better by focusing discussions around automating everything that can be automated. What say you?

Most Valued Members - Idea is to reward members for the effort that they put in. We are thinking of something like virtual currencies that you can trade for Underground Access and you can earn this currency by doing various things like contributing bots, participating in botting championships and contributing quality posts.

Best Bang for The Buck - We don't want to have a half baked product out in the market. We plan to keep it in Beta for some time and release the underground to general access when it is completely ready.

So right now we will incubate it and keep adding stuff for another month or two. When we feel that it is worth the money, we plan to release it.

Also, we haven't planned a subscription price for the section. But we will make sure that it is fair and provides top value.And, before you ask, the support for UBot Studio is and will always be free.

Bot Library - A lot of you have shared awesome bots here. Let's make it even bigger and better. We plan to have botting championships (hey, botting is so much fun -- lets make it even more fun) and bot sharing zone.

UBot.me - We plan to make it as a bot directory / idea brainstorming zone. I still need to think of the best way to go about it but we can have it either as a DIGG type site or a twitter kinda site (botting ideas in 140 Characters of Less)

Anyway, for me it is time to get back to work. If you guys would have any suggestions or feedback, bring it on.

[Aaron Nimocks]

So is a new section going to be opened soon for this?

[070707]

Aaron Nimocks, on 22 December 2009 - 09:01 PM, said:

So is a new section going to be opened soon for this?

I would like to know as well. I have no problem releasing bots to a private forum where we all paid for ubot... but releasing it basically to the public is one issue I do have.

[nevele]

Lord Brar, on 22 December 2009 - 02:06 PM, said:

another month or two.

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[Lord Brar]

Aaron / 070707 - Yes, I am working on that. It will be accessible by verified customers only for now.

Nevele - That is the estimated time for Beta - during which we don't plan to sell access to it to general public. However, you will have ability to contribute to it and rake up MVM Points.

We may release it to public before that time if we all feel that the section is already starting to provide good value which is worth the money. Hope I make sense.

Merry Christmas BTW!

[tooltrainer]

Great vision Lord, looking forward to it. My UBot sat on the "shelf" for a few months due to upgrading my main workstation to Windows 7 (oh what fun THAT has been...) but I'm back in the swing again and loving all the flexibility I'm realizing UBot has. A community geared around heavy duty automation with it, would simply rock.

Jonathan

[jackfitz]

Sounds great Lord.
Looking forward to all the above!

[some_guy]

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but we do not claim to know it all or be gurus.

Good, that means you don't think you know it all, yet really know nothing yet rip everyone off with your bullshit recycled products

[webautomationlab]

some_guy, on 04 February 2010 - 03:24 AM, said:

Good, that means you don't think you know it all, yet really know nothing yet rip everyone off with your bullshit recycled products

WTF?

[turbolapp]

webautomationlab, on 04 February 2010 - 04:59 PM, said:

WTF?

I think he's implying that that's what Know it all Gurus do and he was saying "good" since Lord said they were not know it all gurus.

[webautomationlab]

Oh, ok.

[some_guy]

turbolapp, on 05 February 2010 - 12:01 AM, said:

I think he's implying that that's what Know it all Gurus do and he was saying "good" since Lord said they were not know it all gurus.

Yes, sorry if anyone took it the wrong way, I have a sarcastic streak that doesn't always come off very well online

Have gone to a few big "guru" filled IM conferences with work and these Gurus don't really say anything you can't find online for free, push their latest (recycled) products onto people who have already paid $1000s to be there, get their "guru friends" to pimp there crap whilst promising it all (lying) to people.

Sorry for the rant but it really makes me angry. So I am glad the Ubot guys do not claim to be gurus. The Ubot guys have said what they are not, I will say what (I think) they are, decent, honest, hardworkings guys.

[Frank]

Any more news on the private forum?

Frank

[theskinnys]

Frank, on 16 March 2010 - 12:28 AM, said:

Any more news on the private forum?

Frank

Been another month, so just asking the same question

[Lord Brar]

Having a Private Forum with lot of kick-ass content is not the issue. The issue is integration -- we have rewritten most of the underlying code of UBot Studio to accommodate for all this. We are targeting this project to be launched before UBot Studio 4.0.

It is kinda embarrassing for me give any public estimate of release date -- but the only thing that I can assure you of is that you will be very impressed with the end product. I guess I will just leave it at that.

[barman]

shut up lord brar and launch it

[theninjamanz]

Sounds good, although personally I will sell very few bots I think. Once the masses get them it's pretty much game over because of the "Oh doh I just thought I push the button and that putting the same keyword in 100 times makes it 100 times more likely that I will get success".

But I will say this.

These support forums should be completely private to existing customers. Things like scripting should be at least - I hope that whatever happens the forums can got properly underground because it's a bit daft having a tool which has forums that can be read by whoever -search engines and the rest - when in fact we're talking about things that would be best served up to the core customer base. Put a public forum in for general ubot questions and a decent all inclusive FAQ.

Oh yeah, I hate subscription models per se, so it better be something pretty darned amazing.

But love the tool.