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Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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The idea is novel, but it's a solution to a trivial problem. Most companies probably don't pay any significant amount of thought to sports standings. Fewer still would take the time out of their day to contend with some sort of system to keep track everything, much less pay for such a system. It seems like a complex solution to a negligible issue. EDIT: More so than the price, the work involved in implementing a syst…

In my group that would use it (a college fraternity), we'd definitely be up for putting in the effort for this (lots of utility derived from trash talking, etc). I cannot imagine, however, that we'd pay $15/month for it.

A related website http://athleague.com/ (runs our school's IM sports) has options to purchase team paraphernalia or related things through their websites. As a college student, I can't say I know much about how that would be monetized in an office setting.

Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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post #10

The idea is novel, but it's a solution to a trivial problem. Most companies probably don't pay any significant amount of thought to sports standings. Fewer still would take the time out of their day to contend with some sort of system to keep track everything, much less pay for such a system. It seems like a complex solution to a negligible issue. EDIT: More so than the price, the work involved in implementing a syst…

In my group that would use it (a college fraternity), we'd definitely be up for putting in the effort for this (lots of utility derived from trash talking, etc). I cannot imagine, however, that we'd pay $15/month for it. A related website http://athleague.com/ (runs our school's IM sports) has options to purchase team paraphernalia or related things through their websites. As a college student, I can't say I know muc…

Cheers for the comments. While Athletable is more targeted at companies it would be cool to try and find a way for it to work for schools as well. Can you shoot me an email at nathan [at] nathanhoad [dot] net so we can have a chat.

Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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Nice work, great design. Just one thing imho, the font size of "Athletable" is less than the description so your site name doesn't really "hit" me. The first thing I read on your site is "Pool, ping pong ...". I would recommend making "Athletable" a bit larger.

Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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post #23

Nice work, great design. Just one thing imho, the font size of "Athletable" is less than the description so your site name doesn't really "hit" me. The first thing I read on your site is "Pool, ping pong ...". I would recommend making "Athletable" a bit larger.

Hmmm good idea. I might have a play with those sizes and see what I can work out.
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