Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

#1

Post by railsbob » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 2:30 PM UTC

Ask HN: Review bettingly.com
bettingly.com

Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

#2

Post by railsbob » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 2:30 PM UTC

Bettingly is a social fantasy betting game. Your goal is to correctly predict outcomes of real cricket, football and tennis games and earn as many L¥ as possibe! Any feedback will help us to make it more fun and interesting.

Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

railsbob wrote: post #2

Bettingly is a social fantasy betting game. Your goal is to correctly predict outcomes of real cricket, football and tennis games and earn as many L¥ as possibe! Any feedback will help us to make it more fun and interesting.

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Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

#4

Post by dclaysmith » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

I like the idea and would probably be interested... but I fall into the group that hates using Facebook to log in and prefer a short registration. There is not a chance I'd give access to my Wall and the "any time" access.

Add a standard login process and I'll check it out.

Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

#5

Post by wheelibin » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 3:21 PM UTC

typo: odss in the section "Cricket, Football & Tennis"

Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

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Post by binarymax » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 3:22 PM UTC

Looks very interesting, but unfortunately those are not my sports.

FYI the text "We will never post anything to your wall without your explicit permission." is getting visually cropped for me. I am chrome 9.0.597.107 on win7, and my screen res is 1600x1200.

Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

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Post by smokeyj » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 3:45 PM UTC

This looks like a fun concept with a large potential market. You probably won't get great feedback here because HN isn't your audience, so take advice with a grain of salt. Maybe present this to the sports sections on different forums like Reddit and other fantasy league sites. Maybe you could give more currency to members who recruit other members, like an affiliate system. Just some ideas, good luck!

Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

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Post by railsbob » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 3:51 PM UTC

dclaysmith wrote: post #4

I like the idea and would probably be interested... but I fall into the group that hates using Facebook to log in and prefer a short registration. There is not a chance I'd give access to my Wall and the "any time" access. Add a standard login process and I'll check it out.

Thanks! We have enabled email signups now :)

Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

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Post by dshipper » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 3:59 PM UTC

I like the concept! My only issue is that I don't know how to pronounce your currency - maybe make it more clear what the verbalization of the symbol is. Otherwise cool site.

Re: Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

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Post by jsavimbi » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 4:05 PM UTC

railsbob wrote: post #2

Bettingly is a social fantasy betting game. Your goal is to correctly predict outcomes of real cricket, football and tennis games and earn as many L¥ as possibe! Any feedback will help us to make it more fun and interesting.

Conceptually, I've seen many of these fantasy-social-sports-betting sites, so I hope you have a good idea in regards to user apathy towards them, but best of luck to you anyway.

From a UI perspective, as I won't login using Facebook to get the whole UX, your design is very middle of the road, like the new HN theme, which I really disapprove of. Not necessarily a bad thing at launch, but keep in mind that you'll have to go up against entrenched players if you're looking for a global market outside of cricket and badminton.

Best of luck and I hope you find a passion in it.