RailBird Poker - Poker payouts made simple | Product Hunt

Hey everyone 👋 I'm @koshy - Principal iOS Engineer @ Favor Delivery and founder of the RailBird Poker app.

I've been working on iOS applications going back to the iOS 4.0 days when I founded NatveInk, a small design & development agency helping startups launch their initial products. Eventually, I joined Favor Delivery during their Series A, and today, I support our teams internally as part of the Developer Experience team.

I've always dreamed of launching a product of my own that leverages my career learnings, focused on a compelling idea I'm passionate about. That idea finally came to me after moving to Austin and forming a weekly poker game with some friends. As the host, I quickly found that taking financial responsibility over the game’s ability to satisfy all payouts at the end of the night was not one that I wished to carry for much longer.

And so began RailBird - a quickly scrapped together iPad app that I brought down with me to the tables to serve as a glorified spreadsheet for keeping everyone’s buy ins and cash outs straight. A few redesigns and technical overhauls later, and RailBird is finally live on the App Store as an iPhone app with a generalized feature set to help any host reconcile their home game payouts.

I'm excited to hear your thoughts, especially from fellow product & engineering enthusiasts who may have personally felt the burden of managing poker game finances themselves!

What’s up next? - Support for game types other than cash games (namely tournaments) - All the fun stats and graphs that can be made available to players for tracking in-game performance - Improved event management features allowing for scheduled games and planned attendance - Web app support for sharing payout results with users who don’t have iPhones - Experimentation with different pricing models, allowing larger groups to offset the cost of access for their members