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Show HN: Startup Sports Club
- wasd 13y agoI think this is a great solution to the problem of meeting people post college with similiar interests. I signed up to be notified of bar games and board games. I suck at tennis and running but I would be interested in those too.
- birken 13y agoOP here. Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback. That is the goal of the site, as a way to meet new people doing stuff that you enjoy doing. And especially thanks for putting your information on the interest list: http://startupsportsclub.com/interest http://startupsportsclub.com/interest -- that will help me connect the dots and find groups of people with similar interests
- hkmurakami 13y agoTotally second this. I don't have much to add to the discussion for now, but wanted to say thanks! :) Will tell my friends about it too, particularly those in the city :)
- noname123 13y agoPfft, no League (LoL), Dota2, CoD, 2K or Smash Brothers? Where is the future of sportsmanship, eSports, brah?
- pmcpinto 13y agoI love the idea
- crixlet 13y agoAwesome idea!
- angersock 13y agoTried to add a "Frisbee-ing" event. 500 error, so good luck. Also, check out Moment.JS and get a better date input mechanism.
- guptaneil 13y agoMoment.js is great for date manipulation, but for this type of natural date input, I would recommend Sherlock over Moment.js https://github.com/Tabule/Sherlock https://github.com/Tabule/Sherlock (Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Sherlock.js)
- birken 13y agoSorry about that, it is a very early product and sadly this bug slipped through. This was a particularly classic one where I test on sqlite and the production environment is postgres, and they unfortunately handle some inputs differently. Anywho, I've fixed it and I appreciate you trying out the site.
- chm 13y agoCome on... "Startup"? Is this a common thing or are the authors trolling?
- vostrocity 13y agoPossible idea: Display all user-added activities by popularity so that someone thinking about hosting an event can get an idea of whether there is already an interested "waiting list"?
- vishaldpatel 13y agoHow is this different / better than meetup.com?
- vostrocity 13y agoI would never think about Meetup for sports/casual activities. All Meetups I attend are "professional" events in my field. Perhaps Meetup has an untapped market?
- vishaldpatel 13y agoMost meetups I attend are of the hiking / watch sports variety.
- aerick 13y agoWas thinking the same thing. Maybe it's easier to browse through since it's very narrow/niche? Hopefully OP can shed some light.
- hkmurakami 13y agoApparently Meetup.com started out with this usecase in mind but evolved into what it is now. It just doesn't evoke this sort of usage anymore.
- boats 13y agoThis is a great idea. At my last company a lot of us played basketball at lunch a couple times a week but since moving to SF I haven't found anything like that yet, and after work I'd rather lift weights. I'd be very interested in some bball games during the work week at lunchtime.
- Ceddy 13y agoThis is great! Unfortunately I won't want to watch the inevitable hiding that is coming next week with others. COYG!
- rurounijones 13y agoWhy limit it to Startups in the name? Do people outside of startups not play sports?
- birken 13y agoFrom the About page: Why "startup" sports club? -------------------------- Startup people generally enjoy trying new things, networking with one another and live in dense clusters. If you aren't in the startup community that is fine also, there is no actual requirement.
- rurounijones 13y agoFair answer. My statement was a bit facetious in that of all of the above in that about page answer; there is nothing especially specific to "startup" people. It seems another example of the Startup People are different from normal people" that gets mentioned a lot on HN.
- jchendy 13y agoSweet! I mocked up a pretty similar idea during a General Assembly class a couple months ago. Glad somebody with more motivation than me actually implemented this! http://jchendy.com/imdownfor/ http://jchendy.com/imdownfor/