Ask HN: Review my startup, Bet On Baseball • Hacker News Board

Post by mchasse » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 8:36 PM UTC

Hey Hackers. We recently launched a prototype of our first mobile game at www.betonbaseballapp.com and we'd love to get your feedback. In particular, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the design, game play, and anything else that you think would be helpful.

The gist of the game is that you make small social bets and trash talk against other players as you watch a live baseball game. Eventually, we'll make this into native apps, but for now you can access if from any webkit-based browser.

We're only doing Giants and A's games right now, so the next available times to play the game are: 8/27 at 2:00pst (A's vs the Redsox, but will probably be rain delayed) 8/27 at 6:00pst (Astros vs Giants)

Thanks in advance for your help.

Post by hiss » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 10:49 PM UTC

Please don't take what I'm going to say personally. The splash screen of the app looks amazing.

Here's my issue: watching baseball seems like an epic waste of time. And sports athletes with their huge contracts is profane at a time when whole families are homeless.

Sigh. Sorry for the negativity. Anyway, don't you think there should be a more creative and practical implementation? Why not merge pro baseball stats with programming concepts? Or instead of pro baseball players, use actual startup enterpreneurs and pit them against each other in some way.

These are just ideas off the top of my head. All I am saying is challenge yourself to create something brave and new with baseball.

Good luck to you!