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You might be right. But in my view, this isn't "a functional app where there's little competition". It's not functional for very many people at all; it's useful

by Bud 14y ago

You might be right. But in my view, this isn't "a functional app where there's little competition". It's not functional for very many people at all; it's useful in a trivial context only. Also, it does have competition; you can get all of this golf event and player data on Yahoo or various other websites which are quite usable on an iPhone or iPad. Therefore almost nobody would "need" this product, and so you'd really want to try to sell this to guys who watch a lot of golf on TV, are golfers themselves, etc. A fairly large group.

danenania 14y ago
I see your point, but I think there is a fairly large niche of people who are into fantasy golf and/or betting who take golf stats and results more seriously than you might realize. The app was developed with constant feedback from a few people in that category, so it definitely has more of a 'power user' slant. That said, I do think it could be fun for casual fans to play with too--I'm just not sure if I can find as much of a market by targeting them.
- Bud 14y ago
  I've downloaded the app using the promo code (thanks for that!) and what I notice is, the data in the app is out of date. Tiger Woods, for instance, is still listed as #2 in the world, even though he won at Bay Hill 8 days ago to take over the #1 ranking. This tells me that your app is not polling a server to refresh its data, or that the server is not up to date at all. Either way, that's not going to be competitive at $5, for a power user, with simply going to the PGA Tour site or Yahoo or elsewhere for golf statistics which get updated within minutes of an event ending. For free. Do you have to update the app itself for the data to be refreshed?
  - danenania 14y ago
    Yep, there's an update server. If you have an internet connection, you should be prompted to download the most recent data. Are you not getting prompted? There should be a little blue bar at the bottom of the app that says "Latest results are available". Click on the cloud icon to sync. If you have a decent connection and aren't getting the prompt, then something's wrong and I'll get on it asap.

by Bud 14y ago

danenania 14y ago

I see your point, but I think there is a fairly large niche of people who are into fantasy golf and/or betting who take golf stats and results more seriously than you might realize. The app was developed with constant feedback from a few people in that category, so it definitely has more of a 'power user' slant. That said, I do think it could be fun for casual fans to play with too--I'm just not sure if I can find as much of a market by targeting them.

Bud 14y ago
I've downloaded the app using the promo code (thanks for that!) and what I notice is, the data in the app is out of date. Tiger Woods, for instance, is still listed as #2 in the world, even though he won at Bay Hill 8 days ago to take over the #1 ranking. This tells me that your app is not polling a server to refresh its data, or that the server is not up to date at all. Either way, that's not going to be competitive at $5, for a power user, with simply going to the PGA Tour site or Yahoo or elsewhere for golf statistics which get updated within minutes of an event ending. For free. Do you have to update the app itself for the data to be refreshed?
- danenania 14y ago
  Yep, there's an update server. If you have an internet connection, you should be prompted to download the most recent data. Are you not getting prompted? There should be a little blue bar at the bottom of the app that says "Latest results are available". Click on the cloud icon to sync. If you have a decent connection and aren't getting the prompt, then something's wrong and I'll get on it asap.