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Re: Show HN: Sports betting between friends

#11

Post by RankingMember »

Friendly spelling check: "No suscription process" has "subscription" spelled incorrectly.

Also: "That's why you're here, aren't you? Do your forecast until the day before the each game, look at the stats, have fun with your friends !" has an unecessary "the" between "before" and "game". I'd rewrite the whole thing as:

"That's why you're here, aren't you? Do your forecast until the day before each game, look at the stats, and have fun with your friends!"

Still kind of an awkward sentence though.

Re: Show HN: Sports betting between friends

#12

Post by jbogp »

RankingMember wrote: post #11

Friendly spelling check: "No suscription process" has "subscription" spelled incorrectly. Also: "That's why you're here, aren't you? Do your forecast until the day before the each game, look at the stats, have fun with your friends !" has an unecessary "the" between "before" and "game". I'd rewrite the whole thing as: "That's why you're here, aren't you? Do your forecast until the day before each game, look at the st…

Thanks ! Copy/pasted your suggestion. English is not my greatest strength.

By the way I originally wrote everything in French. If some people prefer this just go to http://nospronos.com

Re: Show HN: Sports betting between friends

#14

Post by nkg »

jbogp wrote: post #13
nkg wrote: post #10

Great! I was thinking of doing it myself. You are right on time :)

Glad I could help, I hope you and your friends enjoy !

(Comme tu es Français, je me permets...) Je suis sûr que les friends vont aimer, mais les faire adhérer et suivre, c'est la partie difficile de cette affaire! As-tu prévu de mettre des notifs sur Facebook ?

Re: Show HN: Sports betting between friends

#16

Post by jbogp »

nkg wrote: post #14
jbogp wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad I could help, I hope you and your friends enjoy !

(Comme tu es Français, je me permets...) Je suis sûr que les friends vont aimer, mais les faire adhérer et suivre, c'est la partie difficile de cette affaire! As-tu prévu de mettre des notifs sur Facebook ?

Tu peux détailler ce que t'entends par là? Genre des notifications "X vous invite à jouer à Y"? Non j'ai tendance à détester les applis qui font ça !

Par contre je vais rajouter un bouton de partage facebook pour le site c'est une bonne idée.

Re: Show HN: Sports betting between friends

#17

Post by rafaelm »

This is great! Every time the world cup, eurocup, american cup comes around, me and my friends start a "quiniela" as this friendly betting game is called here (and elsewhere in the spanish speaking regions). I always think about coding something like this but never get around to it. We end up using a hacked up Excel spreadsheet.

One suggestion: make it so that each league can modify their rules. The one I'm currently playing gives 1 point for getting the goals of team A, 1 for getting team B, 1 for guessing the winner or a tie and an additional point for getting the exact score. Don't know why but we've always played it that way, and I know there are other quinielas around that have their own rules.

I love that I don't even need to sign up. Great work! I would like to see how you made it (when you get the chance to make a write-up).

Re: Show HN: Sports betting between friends

#18

Post by jbogp »

rafaelm wrote: post #17

This is great! Every time the world cup, eurocup, american cup comes around, me and my friends start a "quiniela" as this friendly betting game is called here (and elsewhere in the spanish speaking regions). I always think about coding something like this but never get around to it. We end up using a hacked up Excel spreadsheet. One suggestion: make it so that each league can modify their rules. The one I'm currently…

Glad you like it ! Yes being able to chose a set of rules for each league would be a good idea ! I'll try implement it soon .

If this is popular in the Spanish speaking world, I should try to translate it in Spanish. In case you are up to do it, that would be great ! my email is tistbajean AT gmail DOT com !(there is one file with every sentence in the site, I would say around 10-15min of work)

Re: Show HN: Sports betting between friends

#19

Post by rafaelm »

jbogp wrote: post #18
rafaelm wrote: post #17

This is great! Every time the world cup, eurocup, american cup comes around, me and my friends start a "quiniela" as this friendly betting game is called here (and elsewhere in the spanish speaking regions). I always think about coding something like this but never get around to it. We end up using a hacked up Excel spreadsheet. One suggestion: make it so that each league can modify their rules. The one I'm currently…

Glad you like it ! Yes being able to chose a set of rules for each league would be a good idea ! I'll try implement it soon . If this is popular in the Spanish speaking world, I should try to translate it in Spanish. In case you are up to do it, that would be great ! my email is tistbajean AT gmail DOT com !(there is one file with every sentence in the site, I would say around 10-15min of work)

Sure I would be glad to! Sending you an email right now.

I am actually just starting a translation service for web sites, apps, documents and basically anything that can be translated. Thanks for letting me shamelessly promote my services haha!

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