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Re: Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

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Post by curiousHacker »

As a pickup basketball fiend I am interested in this. I find that pu bball is the best way for me to meet and network with guys. I have to say though there are certain types of people I definitely want to avoid playing with.

Also, some advice on your webpage. I am not going to bother downloading your app. I'm on my computer. However if you geolocated me based on my IP and then said "There are currently 5 games for Today, and 3 for next Thursday, in City Name", then I would be a lot more compelled. I am just skeptical, since a lot of these Show HN posts are duds.

Re: Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

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Post by pacofvf »

I'm in a football(soccer) country and I play every Saturday, we do it just for fun but we always have trouble finding other players (teammates or adversaries), for which I see a great potential for your app. For those who want to play at a upper level they just gather a team and join a league, they would only use your app the first time while they are gathering a team, or when replacing a member. Most amateurs play seven-a-side football (futsal-like rules) or indoor soccer(a.k.a. arena-soccer, showbol , five-a-side soccer).

Re: Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

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Post by Walkman »

heyheyhey wrote: post #3
matmik wrote: post #2

This 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.

What if you don't try to solve that but a different problem first? Make the app good enough for existing private teams to be usable!

E.g. we play weekly, organize the event through Facebook for years but still a pain sometimes. Somebody don't RSVP but still show up, so we are odd. Also Facebook events don't make it possible to limit the number of guests. If you make it really easy to use and useful enough such a level that existing private groups will use it (and they stick because it makes their life easier), new people will come.

Re: Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

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Post by [deleted] »

subpixel wrote: post #9

I'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…

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Re: Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

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Post by keerthiko »

revelation wrote: post #37
subpixel wrote: post #9

I'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…

I don't think Meetup ever quite made it outside the US.

Not only is that not quite true, but even if so it would just be a marketing problem, and not because of cultural, legal or technical barriers? (such as iOS only, or heavily english-dependent, etc)

I have personally seen Meetup used fairly liberally in Korea, HK and Singapore.

Re: Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

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Post by easytiger »

avree wrote: post #28
easytiger wrote: post #25

Why an app? This is an online service not a sodding "app".

Why does something have to be an online service, and not an app? I'd presume that most people who are doing sports are fairly active and own a mobile phone.

Ridiculous. Take away the app and you have an online service for which one possible front end is the app.

Re: Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

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Post by wellboy »

Walkman wrote: post #40
wellboy wrote: post #39

As always, this is the greatest idea ever, spontaneously meeting like-minded people/social discovery. Hundreds of startups have tried it and this idea pops up on the HN front page every couple of months. However, it has never worked out. Again, not trying to shoot your app down, it is the greatest idea ever, but if you want to spend a significant amount of time on this now, you should be aware of this: Why did none o…

Would you mind linking those threads from HN where this idea came up?

I've searched for it, but can't find the links anymore unfortunately. However, every couple of months a new show hn makes it to the front page with finding like-minded people, making new friends etc.

If you search on Angel list for "meet like-minded people" and you will find some. Here some from the top of my head Spontacts, Sporty, Spots-app, Woofound, Highlight, Sonar.me, Vingle. This article is also very insightful http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/07/ambient-location-didnt-work...

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