Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby
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#2This is launch day and I'm absolutely thrilled to get it out into the wild! Appreciate any and all feedback! :)
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#3This is launch day and I'm absolutely thrilled to get it out into the wild! Appreciate any and all feedback! :)
How are you solving the chicken and the egg problem that plagues most location-based apps?
For example, I'm in multiple FB groups for playing pick-up in my area and see apps like Jogabo mentioned every now and then yet it never seems to gain traction and people just resort to posting on FB.
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#4Some serious usability issues with anti-patterns.
- Why navigation bar on bottom of screen?
- Sometimes close is in left, sometimes on bottom. Pick one.
- Overusing the blurred background pattern. Use it sparingly to provide context, or layering.
- 3 dots icon is sharing?
- No search for finding activities
- When you tap a sport, it spawns multiple view controllers. Leads to crashing the app.
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#5This is launch day and I'm absolutely thrilled to get it out into the wild! Appreciate any and all feedback! :)
How are you solving the chicken and the egg problem that plagues most location-based apps? For example, I'm in multiple FB groups for playing pick-up in my area and see apps like Jogabo mentioned every now and then yet it never seems to gain traction and people just resort to posting on FB.
I once created something similar and ran in to similar problems. What I did was use various event apis (meetup, etc) and populate events from those in to my app while allowing users to create their own.
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#6This is launch day and I'm absolutely thrilled to get it out into the wild! Appreciate any and all feedback! :)
How are you solving the chicken and the egg problem that plagues most location-based apps? For example, I'm in multiple FB groups for playing pick-up in my area and see apps like Jogabo mentioned every now and then yet it never seems to gain traction and people just resort to posting on FB.
It's a tough problem – no doubt about it. In v1, as we expect your nearby network to be quite small, we've focused heavily on your existing friends network (from facebook) and are trying to make that experience as good as possible. Inviting them, organising the events, etc.
In the past, just like you, we used facebook groups and/or messages/chats back and fourth to friends.
Hopefully the app will be good enough for people to start out with their existing friends and then more and more people nearby will show up.
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#7This is launch day and I'm absolutely thrilled to get it out into the wild! Appreciate any and all feedback! :)
This is great. Signed up right away.
If anyone in Seattle wants to play some basketball near greenwood / phinney ridge area, I'm hosting at 7pm tonite at the Greenwood Elementary outdoor courts! Event is public on this app.
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#8Downloaded the app, first screens look good. I would definitely use something like this, living near a huge park in a big city, and being very active. However:
- I don't have Facebook, how do I create an account?
- Do you really, really need accounts at all? And if you do, can't you at least just show me activities happening around me, and let me sign up later?
I'd love to give more feedback but I'm stuck outside your app.
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#9I'm curious what you say to people who ask "Why not Meetup?"
As someone who has organized sport groups from small (single weekly pickup games in the mid west) to large (300+ people vying for spots in three games a week in a major city), I've looked into various sport-specific apps. But in the end, I've always come back to Meetup. They used to have more rough edges, but they've gotten much better.
FYI, here are Meetup features I can't live without as a sports event organizer:
- auto-scheduling of games
- option to make RSVP required (drop-ins are just a hassle, b/c then you never know how many people to plan around)
- online payment collection ("Here's my $3" is a waay more reliable indicator of interest/attendance than "I'm in" - this changed everything for us, and covers our facility rental)
- group-wide + member-specific messaging
- an app and account most people already have and are willing to use
Don't mean to sound pessimistic, just sharing thoughts - best of luck!
Re: Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby
#10This is launch day and I'm absolutely thrilled to get it out into the wild! Appreciate any and all feedback! :)
This is great. Signed up right away. If anyone in Seattle wants to play some basketball near greenwood / phinney ridge area, I'm hosting at 7pm tonite at the Greenwood Elementary outdoor courts! Event is public on this app.
Wohoo, that's so cool to hear! There's something special about hearing from your first users around the world, and that they are actually using it for real stuff.