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Ah, clever as hell. Nice one. Must have been rough getting it launched if it's taken until Week 9 of the NFL season, though. Once you get far enough into the
by zach 19y ago
Ah, clever as hell. Nice one. Must have been rough getting it launched if it's taken until Week 9 of the NFL season, though.
Once you get far enough into the entrepreneurial side of being a technology entrepreneur, you appreciate brilliant hacking of business markets. This is a great market hack.
- mattmaroon 19y agoIt definitely is a bigger project than we realized going in.
- zach 19y agoI run a league on Fanball and I'm humbled by the prospect of how out of hand "create your own rules" leagues can get. There can literally be thousands of feature points. And sure, you can put together a simple fantasy site easily, but there's still a steady creep of features you want to have. So I could see how that would be the case. I imagine you guys are using Rails and ran into the same issue I did with my real estate statistics, which is that there is no particular framework for running and caching "baked" statistics over data in Rails. I've thought about how to generalize and abstract some of the stuff I've done with that into a plugin, but it's probably not going to happen anytime soon.
- mattmaroon 19y agoYeah, it seems fragment caching is the way to go, though for live updates we're going to have to do something a little more elegant.