I wouldn't say the betting market is saturated, I mean we can all agree that there are numerous dice sites and the like out there, but how many are actually good? How many actually have a userbase? How many aren't just clones and carbon copies from one another? Once you filter out the shit, you really are left with a few sites that are actually quality.

What defines quality? A few off the top of my head are community, activity, and security. A dice site that really nails it is Primedice. Their chat is active, they have a shitload of people betting, and the site overall looks safe and secure. I seen one guy wager fucking $400k worth of btc on that fucking website. In theory, they made $4k off 1 guy.

But to take this question even further, I do believe bitcoin gambling as a whole is still a growing market and can still be considered at a "niche" level. Reason why I say this is just because I don't see a lot of mainstream coverage about these kind of websites (I see more about CS:GO bets lmao). Take this screencap for example:

http://i68.tinypic.com/2sagw36.png

I took this a few months back comparing with Satoshidice (because all of us know how popular it was back in '14), and you can clearly see there has been a growing interest that has not plateaued yet. This means there is still room for entry before it truly does become saturated. So if you have an interest in starting a casino, the best time would have been 3 years ago, but the next best time is right about now.

The upside of using the Moneypot api is that of the very low maintenance required, esp if you are going client-side. I could literally host the script and sit on my ass, maybe throw in a bit of marketing but other than that I will be set.

One thing for sure though, I will not be making any updates to the original github file. However, I may sell the script if I lose interest in running a small dice site of my own. Maybe use the script to make a working site then sell it? I could probably whip-up a mobile app too using React Native.

I had this same problem too, and lucky for all of you, I spent a day of headaches so you don't have to. For some reason everything in 'node_modules' cannot get accessed (I am too lazy to look at what file is causing this). What is weird is that other sites (that seemed to be posted a lot older) have a semi-working website where you can at least see the boxes and shit. But whatever, I digress, all you need to do is to rename 'node_modules' into something else (e.g. 'nodemods') then change the values in the html file where 'node_modules' => 'nodemods' (or whatever you renamed it to).

However, I am yet to test whether or not the actual API works. Alongside with chat, faucet, etc. but it does load.

If anyone is interested, I am going to be refactoring this code for devs. So far I am painstakingly separating each component to a seperate .js file along with rewriting (nearly every line) to use ES6. Things I am also looking at is to use lighter libraries (e.g. jquery => superagent for ajax).

But good work, dan. I appreciate you for giving this away for free, I don't think I'd be able to do that. Money helps relieve the headaches.