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Hi HN community ! I am the cofounder of Scoragora. Scoragora is intended to be the best webapp for prediction challenges with friends and colleagues for the FI

by edelans 12y ago

Hi HN community ! I am the cofounder of Scoragora. Scoragora is intended to be the best webapp for prediction challenges with friends and colleagues for the FIFA world cup. It's free, ad-free, focused on Brasil 2014, mobile friendly, and available in 4 languages. We tried to keep our UX very simple yet provide a lot of interesting features (tchat, email reminders, social logins...). This app is our first webapp, and first time in nodejs. We are two young engineers freshly graduated in CS from a french engineering school (Ecole Centrale Paris). As we didn't learn a lot about web programing at school, we decided to build something to learn it, to have a lot of fun, and for the joy of building something significant (= that would be use by a lot of people that we do not know). We are really excited to share it with you, any kind of feedback is welcome =) (and don't hesitate to use our uservoice widget if you spot a bug !). Eventually, we are thinking about making it a business, any clue about an interesting BM is also welcome !

swah 12y ago
Nice, although I wouldn't cross using money. BTW, how did you porovide the page in my language?
- edelans 12y ago
  We serve the page depending on the language of your browser. Default is english. We machine translated spanish and portugese, so they probably look really awkward sometimes... French is our native language, and english translation should be good. (we use node module i18next).
- edelans 12y ago
  Regarding money, we didn't want to bother integrating it as well. We wanted to keep it simple (stay away from the hassle of paperwork for a gambling website), and user friendly (I always feel dubious regarding online betting platforms...)
gadders 12y ago
Is this definitely going to stay around for the duration of the World Cup? I need something like this for my work tournament and if it gets taken down I won't be popular...
- andrewcross 12y ago
  Seconded. I think I'm going to make screenshot backups just to make sure.
  - edelans 12y ago
    How can I make you more confident ? Emailing it to you for instance ? with a "send me my predictions by email" button ?
    - gadders 12y ago
      That would be handy if I could grab a league snapshot or something.
    - gadders 12y ago
      Seems I was correct - the site is down. FFS.
- edelans 12y ago
  There are a few thousand users trusting us (and counting!) so I can guarantee I will do anything to avoid disappointing them !
mokkol 12y ago
Nice one! Going to give it a try with my family :)

by edelans 12y ago

swah 12y ago

Nice, although I wouldn't cross using money. BTW, how did you porovide the page in my language?

edelans 12y ago
We serve the page depending on the language of your browser. Default is english. We machine translated spanish and portugese, so they probably look really awkward sometimes... French is our native language, and english translation should be good. (we use node module i18next).
edelans 12y ago
Regarding money, we didn't want to bother integrating it as well. We wanted to keep it simple (stay away from the hassle of paperwork for a gambling website), and user friendly (I always feel dubious regarding online betting platforms...)

gadders 12y ago

Is this definitely going to stay around for the duration of the World Cup? I need something like this for my work tournament and if it gets taken down I won't be popular...

andrewcross 12y ago
Seconded. I think I'm going to make screenshot backups just to make sure.
- edelans 12y ago
  How can I make you more confident ? Emailing it to you for instance ? with a "send me my predictions by email" button ?
  - gadders 12y ago
    That would be handy if I could grab a league snapshot or something.
  - gadders 12y ago
    Seems I was correct - the site is down. FFS.
edelans 12y ago
There are a few thousand users trusting us (and counting!) so I can guarantee I will do anything to avoid disappointing them !

mokkol 12y ago

Nice one! Going to give it a try with my family :)