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I'm building http://test.gmbl.io http://test.gmbl.io as a side project - it'll be a nice stats site, I mainly built it for my own use and then decided to make

I'm building http://test.gmbl.io http://test.gmbl.io as a side project - it'll be a nice stats site, I mainly built it for my own use and then decided to make it accessible on the web, rather than just replacing my spreadsheets. Might monetise it eventually, but I just want to finish it off in the end. (Excuse the designed-with-a-potato look, the prototype designs are at http://test.gmbl.io/static/prototype/1/index.html http://test.gmbl.io/static/prototype/1/index.html though!) Edit: worth pointing out, I learned to code building this the last 4/5 months in my spare time. Double edit: Eh, it's pretty clearly Definitely Not Finished. Lots of placeholder text and stuff, but yeah. http://test.gmbl.io/matches/Arsenal/Newcastle/ http://test.gmbl.io/matches/Arsenal/Newcastle/

sourc3 13y ago
As a soccer fan, this makes me happy! When do you expect to finish? I would love to use this as a back-end API for a couple of app ideas I have. By the way the data side of the business is pretty tough to break into. What are your thoughts on that?
- iamwithnail 13y ago
  Yeah, absolutely tough to get into. I'm using some free resources right now (football-data.co.uk in particular), but would like to pull more information - the Betfair API in particular is a mess, and Opta are ludicrously expensive - c£8-10k a season. Actually might have public beta in a couple of weeks, I'm just going to put the prototype layouts into Django templates, and then troubleshoot. Want me to ping you an email when we're doing a soft launch? (PS: If you know anywhere that has a free, REST/JSON livescore API, that would be grand...)
- iamwithnail 13y ago
  You might like www.kickdex.com as well... Rather cooler than what I'm doing.
  - sourc3 13y ago
    Thanks for the link. I have used an RSS based feed by a gent in the UK and he was charging about 20euros/month for the feed. It has been two years and I cannot get the link. Will keep looking for it.

sourc3 13y ago

As a soccer fan, this makes me happy! When do you expect to finish? I would love to use this as a back-end API for a couple of app ideas I have. By the way the data side of the business is pretty tough to break into. What are your thoughts on that?

iamwithnail 13y ago
Yeah, absolutely tough to get into. I'm using some free resources right now (football-data.co.uk in particular), but would like to pull more information - the Betfair API in particular is a mess, and Opta are ludicrously expensive - c£8-10k a season. Actually might have public beta in a couple of weeks, I'm just going to put the prototype layouts into Django templates, and then troubleshoot. Want me to ping you an email when we're doing a soft launch? (PS: If you know anywhere that has a free, REST/JSON livescore API, that would be grand...)
iamwithnail 13y ago
You might like www.kickdex.com as well... Rather cooler than what I'm doing.
- sourc3 13y ago
  Thanks for the link. I have used an RSS based feed by a gent in the UK and he was charging about 20euros/month for the feed. It has been two years and I cannot get the link. Will keep looking for it.