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Ask HN: Review my startup
Meet Sportal: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getsportalapp.sportal
What does it do?
It helps you find players in your locality for playing any sport you want.
Why have I developed it?
Because I myself faced the problem. Many times when I wanted play my favourite sport I found nobody to play with. Then I conducted a survey and find out that many people face this issue. So, I decided to develop a solution!
Who is it for?
For everyone who love playing sports.
How is it different from other such apps?
It is easy to use and core-feature driven. It can take you from thinking about playing a sport to scoring a nice goal or hitting an amazing six in a few minutes.
- herbst 10y agoHow do you plan to compete against meetup? How do you plan to attract a critical mass of users?
- hammadnasir 10y agoMeetup is focused on a lot of things but Sportal is feature specific and focus only on it's main feature (searching players) and as far as the second part of the question is concerned, I would like to have some suggestions from you. Thanks!
- smt88 10y agoWhy does it need to be a mobile app? Why isn't it a website?
- hammadnasir 10y agobecause websites don't look that great on mobile devices and people can't carry laptops or desktops in their hands while going towards the venue.
- smt88 10y ago"don't look that great" is pretty subjective. What do users say? I'm too lazy to link to them, but you can easily find mountains of evidence that users hate downloading native apps. The cost of acquiring native mobile users is much, much higher than mobile web. Creating a social network is really, really hard. Doing it on a mobile device is even harder, especially when there are already versions of this on social networks full of users (like Facebook). I use Facebook to organize pick-up sports games, and it works great. You have huge obstacles here, and trying to get people to go to an app store and download an app doesn't have to be one of them.