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Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by googletron » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 8:02 PM UTC

cr4zy wrote: post #8

I like this concept a lot. NoFouls.com does something similar for basketball, but the regular games are never on there. It's always some guy trying to get a game by his house, emailing everybody in the city who is nowhere close to him. Hopefully this works out better. It's tough because most guys only know the times for one court. And so you'd need a lot of those guys to signup and post. However, there are some that…

yeah that could definitely be a way of doing it; solely depends on the community. I think the idea might have been also to get leagues up and running with the tool as an organizational tool for games and practices and team discussion.

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by 404error » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 8:12 PM UTC

I've been wanting something like this for my city for a long time.

The only problem for me is getting my not so tech savvy community to find/use this.

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by ashchristopher » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 8:13 PM UTC

I hope these keys are fake... https://github.com/myusuf3/courtside/blob/master/courtside/k...

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by googletron » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 8:26 PM UTC

ashchristopher wrote: post #13

I hope these keys are fake... https://github.com/myusuf3/courtside/blob/master/courtside/k...

Theses are old keys; I will have them removed from repository though.

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by sp332 » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 8:32 PM UTC

googletron wrote: post #9

gwillen wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

myusuf3: Beware; you appear to have been hellbanned from HN between 145 and 149 days ago. I can't figure out why, as you do not seem to have said anything objectionable in that time. This means that none of your submissions or comments in that time -- including your reply to this comment -- have shown up to anybody (except users like me with showdead enabled.) You can probably appeal the decision to pg; or you could…

I will let him know. how do you go about appealing the decision?

email: info@ycombinator.com

I was once hellbanned for 4 days, for no reason (they said it was a mistake). I was reinstated by sending an appeal to that address.

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 8:35 PM UTC

Ravens Nest? This an Ottawa project? hehe. if so/add Ultimate as a sport. hehe

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by googletron » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 8:36 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #16

Ravens Nest? This an Ottawa project? hehe. if so/add Ultimate as a sport. hehe

yess!

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by googletron » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 9:16 PM UTC

nowarninglabel wrote: post #5

Love it, checking out the code so I can go ahead and see about hacking in my beloved "Hooverball" as a choice.

excellent make sure to add icons and such.

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by googletron » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 9:18 PM UTC

404error wrote: post #12

I've been wanting something like this for my city for a long time. The only problem for me is getting my not so tech savvy community to find/use this.

I dont know; its pretty nice and user friendly. I am sure they are facebook too. it integrates with facebook and twitter. plus appeal to the athlete in them.

Re: Show HN: Courtside.me

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Post by noname123 » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 9:19 PM UTC

cr4zy wrote: post #8

I like this concept a lot. NoFouls.com does something similar for basketball, but the regular games are never on there. It's always some guy trying to get a game by his house, emailing everybody in the city who is nowhere close to him. Hopefully this works out better. It's tough because most guys only know the times for one court. And so you'd need a lot of those guys to signup and post. However, there are some that…

Yea definitely. I signed up for NoFouls and found it to be of no use for me. A really good use for this type of app though is to find teammates for a rec league - especially in the winter weather; everybody has to play in a indoor league for soccer, basketball etc.

Problem is if you are not a sponsored corporate or church team, you are just a "free-agent"; you just get assigned and put on random teams. It'd be cool to pair people who are interested to sign up for a rec league team to figure out what kind of team they want to be in - kinda of like a "recreational sports speed dating."