Show HN: Startup Sports Club

#1

Post by birken » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 8:43 PM UTC

Show HN: Startup Sports Club
startupsportsclub.com

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#2

Post by wasd » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 9:07 PM UTC

I think this is a great solution to the problem of meeting people post college with similiar interests. I signed up to be notified of bar games and board games. I suck at tennis and running but I would be interested in those too.

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#3

Post by noname123 » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 9:08 PM UTC

Pfft, no League (LoL), Dota2, CoD, 2K or Smash Brothers? Where is the future of sportsmanship, eSports, brah?

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#4

Post by birken » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 9:13 PM UTC

wasd wrote: post #2

I think this is a great solution to the problem of meeting people post college with similiar interests. I signed up to be notified of bar games and board games. I suck at tennis and running but I would be interested in those too.

OP here. Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback. That is the goal of the site, as a way to meet new people doing stuff that you enjoy doing.

And especially thanks for putting your information on the interest list: http://startupsportsclub.com/interest -- that will help me connect the dots and find groups of people with similar interests

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#5

Post by pmcpinto » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 9:40 PM UTC

I love the idea

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#6

Post by crixlet » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

Awesome idea!

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#7

Post by angersock » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 10:14 PM UTC

Tried to add a "Frisbee-ing" event. 500 error, so good luck.

Also, check out Moment.JS and get a better date input mechanism.

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Post by guptaneil » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 10:19 PM UTC

angersock wrote: post #7

Tried to add a "Frisbee-ing" event. 500 error, so good luck. Also, check out Moment.JS and get a better date input mechanism.

Moment.js is great for date manipulation, but for this type of natural date input, I would recommend Sherlock over Moment.js

https://github.com/Tabule/Sherlock

(Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Sherlock.js)

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#9

Post by birken » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 10:22 PM UTC

angersock wrote: post #7

Tried to add a "Frisbee-ing" event. 500 error, so good luck. Also, check out Moment.JS and get a better date input mechanism.

Sorry about that, it is a very early product and sadly this bug slipped through. This was a particularly classic one where I test on sqlite and the production environment is postgres, and they unfortunately handle some inputs differently.

Anywho, I've fixed it and I appreciate you trying out the site.

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#10

Post by wasd » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 10:29 PM UTC

birken wrote: post #4

wasd wrote: post #2

I think this is a great solution to the problem of meeting people post college with similiar interests. I signed up to be notified of bar games and board games. I suck at tennis and running but I would be interested in those too.

OP here. Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback. That is the goal of the site, as a way to meet new people doing stuff that you enjoy doing. And especially thanks for putting your information on the interest list: http://startupsportsclub.com/interest -- that will help me connect the dots and find groups of people with similar interests

I agree with another comment that mentioned you should consider adding videogames. I play dota2 occasionally and wouldn't mind playing with locals.