Just curious to know what everyones opinion is about this software. I for one am not a big fan of it - it doesnt seem to be very friendly towards masters events (although this might be premature)
How come a company or someone has not developed an web based application that utilizes SQL/Php or XML?
Is this company the only game in the marketplace?
What do other clubs use?
2ndly - of you coaches or clubs out there that have underwater cameras in use what type/kind are you using? software?
Parents
Former Member
I have used Meet Manager many times - and my wife has run Team Manager and Meet Manager for many years supporting the high school team.
My personal opinion, as both a person in the software business for 25 years and as an end user is that HyTek software is overall highly complex and a jumbled mess of features. They do not have any meaningful competition and the buyers (teams and swimming pool owners/managers) are unwilling to take the risk of switching to something else.
Hy-tek guards its file formats so it is difficult to build software compatible with it.
It has nothing to do with Windows or Linux or the platform. It is just not very friendly. Yes you can learn it and get good with it. In fact that is what you MUST do to use it effectively. A startover is required to meaningfully improve it - but it would scare everyone to death that relies on it.
Running a meet is complex. The variety of event orders, seeding choices, scoring methods, etc. make it difficult to do easily with software.
I have used Meet Manager many times - and my wife has run Team Manager and Meet Manager for many years supporting the high school team.
My personal opinion, as both a person in the software business for 25 years and as an end user is that HyTek software is overall highly complex and a jumbled mess of features. They do not have any meaningful competition and the buyers (teams and swimming pool owners/managers) are unwilling to take the risk of switching to something else.
Hy-tek guards its file formats so it is difficult to build software compatible with it.
It has nothing to do with Windows or Linux or the platform. It is just not very friendly. Yes you can learn it and get good with it. In fact that is what you MUST do to use it effectively. A startover is required to meaningfully improve it - but it would scare everyone to death that relies on it.
Running a meet is complex. The variety of event orders, seeding choices, scoring methods, etc. make it difficult to do easily with software.
