u got FUCKING LUCKY, im sitn here typin crap to people on irc and caught this so im gonna answer it since some of these are questions n00bs will have generally

note for future reference, use arial black again and all capitals for an entire fucking paragraph and you have an infraction at minimum coming your way

now, you only need to use proxies once your home ip address is banned from mininova/tpb, generally speaking, tpb is going to be a BITCH to upload to anyway so you can just focus on mini at first whilst your still getting used to things, another option is to pay a member (apekillape offers this as a service) or indians to upload the .torrent to the sites in question for you, in the case of ape, he handles the proxies etc himself, you can ignore dealing with them

another option, completely free, scan for proxies yourself

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that should be enough to get you started on that front

yes, every file has competition, no, your not likely to be the most popular one, thats life, take what you can get and deal with it, as you progress further into ppi you will find ways to get more people using your torrent and to get more installs per user that downloads your torrent, experimentation, time and patience is what this takes though, dont expect to work out the tricks overnight

time of day? experiment

you really should just start using torrents on a daily basis for random things to find out for yourself, after you have used them a while it makes more sense

you will not get everything handed to you on a platter, today you got lucky, experiment and learn, expect to SERIOUSLY fuck up the first few attempts, its going to happen, once you get used to it though you will get better and better at each piece of the puzzle.

this will be my last post in this thread but there really is no REQUIRED startup costs for ppi, it can be done on a shoestring budget, it all depends how far and fast you want to scale it on how far you can get into ppi until you have to start reinvesting though, personally im reinvesting nearly everything iv made so far with it to build it further and further.