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Hey HN, I've been hacking away at this for the past couple of years. Launched in February. Hope you get a kick out of it as much as I do. Fantasy Congress is a

Hey HN, I've been hacking away at this for the past couple of years. Launched in February. Hope you get a kick out of it as much as I do. Fantasy Congress is an online game where data about members of congress is converted into points. Players select members of congress for their team and acquire points based on legislative activity of the U.S. House and Senate. Like fantasy sports, teams compete in small groups called leagues. At the end of a predetermined number of weeks (called a “season”), the team with the most points in their league wins.

sam1r 6y ago
Why not make this more direct-to-consumer with a more friendly UI? Versus just a demo. From a product perspective, a lot of awesome viral feature possibilities with twitter integration + timestamps + clout on predicting their next moves/outcomes
- asebold 6y ago
  ? Not sure what you mean. This isn't a demo, you can actually sign up and play. But yeah, it's a work in progress and the UI could be improved.
munk-a 6y ago
Just a pair of UX comments: Being able to search via State as well would probably help a fair bit. The US has a reputation for being quite bad when it comes to awareness of representation - so forcing a name based search probably isn't great for supporting users - if the search was made into a live responsive search (where the table view was refreshed on each keypress) that'd probably be even better. Your arrangement of Next/Prev page really messes with my brain - it'd be good if these buttons stayed in the same horizontal position when you move from the first page to any other - it's particularly confusing in this case since there isn't any standard pagination widget bar thingy - instead there are just two naked buttons which swap places when you move from the first page to the second.
- asebold 6y ago
  Oh thank you. These are very valid points. Appreciate the feedback!

sam1r 6y ago

Why not make this more direct-to-consumer with a more friendly UI? Versus just a demo. From a product perspective, a lot of awesome viral feature possibilities with twitter integration + timestamps + clout on predicting their next moves/outcomes

asebold 6y ago
? Not sure what you mean. This isn't a demo, you can actually sign up and play. But yeah, it's a work in progress and the UI could be improved.

munk-a 6y ago

Just a pair of UX comments: Being able to search via State as well would probably help a fair bit. The US has a reputation for being quite bad when it comes to awareness of representation - so forcing a name based search probably isn't great for supporting users - if the search was made into a live responsive search (where the table view was refreshed on each keypress) that'd probably be even better. Your arrangement of Next/Prev page really messes with my brain - it'd be good if these buttons stayed in the same horizontal position when you move from the first page to any other - it's particularly confusing in this case since there isn't any standard pagination widget bar thingy - instead there are just two naked buttons which swap places when you move from the first page to the second.

asebold 6y ago
Oh thank you. These are very valid points. Appreciate the feedback!