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Ask HN: Any Hackers Love Sports?

9 points by guinness74 13y ago

First time, long time--do any hackers here love sports? I do. As a sports fan, I don't feel like there are many quality Apps on mobile devices. Twitter has enhanced how I watch television, sports included, but there's a lot of noise. There are a plethora of scoreboard apps, but where's the App that will revolutionize the game day experience for the fan? Is anyone interested in brainstorming, prototyping, and developing the home screen app for sports fans with me? If so, respond here and we can exchange contact information. I have a strong development background in C++ / MySQL / PHP / JavaScript / some Objective C. I'm also somewhat networked with new sports media. An ideal co-founder would have a strong iOS and Objective C background, and loves sports.

pennyarkham 13y ago
Sports are for idiot working class men.
- guinness74 13y ago
  I was excited because I saw a comment, but then I read it and I wasn't.
- ScottWhigham 13y ago
  If this sort of response is what you consider a "contribution" to this community, we're better off without you.
- etanazir 13y ago
  Yeah; Yacht racing is for the schleppers.
kohanz 13y ago
I definitely love sports and am currently working on a side-project in that area. However, it is not an in-game experience. Hoping to do a Show HN soon to share it. My feeling is that the "in-game" experience will be tough to crack. Call me old fashioned, but when I sit down to watch a game, I may have a second screen open, but it's rarely used to augment watching the game, it's mostly for multi-tasking.
penguinlinux 13y ago
Wait until the Word Cup comes this year, I know many hackers that love Soccer.
- pmcpinto 13y ago
  A real soccer fan watches games during all year, not only in the World Cup :)
frenchhacker 13y ago
Sounds interesting to me. I have a couple of side projects involving visualization and comparison of data from track and field events. My technical background includes Python, Java, Postgresql, Javascript. Unfortunately no iOS.
- chatmasta 13y ago
  I run d1 track in college right now. Would love to talk about this with you if you want. milesrichardson@gmail.com
pmcpinto 13y ago
I'm a big fan of sports, mainly soccer and basketball, but I don't have any background on iOS and Objective C. During games I usually use a second screen to debate with my friends what's happening in the game or to share some betting tips. In case you need something more feel free to ask me.
zachlatta 13y ago
We're a small team of football fans and we recently made a game in that area for iOS devices. It's called Football Heroes. We'd love your feedback! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes/id543009156?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes/id543009156?...
rawland 13y ago
I love To Do Sports. Every now and then a story on "Exercise/Sleep/Meditate well and you will reach the Nirvana of Human 2.0" comes up here at HN. But the thing is, that Sports are quite fundamental. According to Wikipedia: "Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive physical activity". It's analogous to all "entrepreneurs" here doing "competitive mental activity", at least if you are in the same industrial sector. It's not exercising only, sports teaches you about sportsmanship, respect and fairness. That's what I look up to. Heck, Hacking itself is even some kind of sport to me. So, if you need somebody in order to raise the experience of doing sports: I'm all yours. ;-)
ada1981 13y ago
We have a community of Founders / Investors that started this year that love Ultimate Frisbee. Invite only events where we play / mastermind / do deals / hang. Current members include Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Elliott Bisnow of Summit Series, Evan Reas of Circle and others. http://UltimateFounders.com http://UltimateFounders.com
GrahamsNumber 13y ago
Some "hackers" love sports, the pope is catholic and water is wet.
freshrap6 13y ago
Big sports fan here. I enjoy watching the game and participating. I've been working on a side project for managing the social sport/rec league teams I play on. The idea you raised is an interesting one. There are lots of really cool visualizations out there these days. I've always wondered how we could make them more useful during the games.
coralreef 13y ago
Saw this few days ago: http://www.rivalrygames.com/ http://www.rivalrygames.com/
knes 13y ago
I'm learning to code and building stuff at http://www.insidefpl.com http://www.insidefpl.com, a site dedicated to Fantasy Premier League Football.
geldedus 13y ago
"love sports" like in "couch potato watching sports on TV getting fatter with beer, pizza and chips"? no thanks