Very awesome, congrats on your release! I know of a similar golf app that made absolute bank, so if there's a niche and you can tap into it, you guys will likely do quite well.
Show HN: Hooper – AI-driven stats and highlights for basketball play
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#12Very awesome, congrats on your release! I know of a similar golf app that made absolute bank, so if there's a niche and you can tap into it, you guys will likely do quite well.
Appreciate the kind words!
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#13This is very interesting and well executed for the initial release. Good luck!
One thing I found odd was that the default/main screen in the app is a feed. That feed is just short videos without any of the game data the app captures. Perhaps an overlay would showoff the app as well as the skills. The videos by themselves don't add much differentiated value.
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#14Well done, ai_bullish++
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#15Cool but offence is only half the story! Any plans to add defensive stats or stuff like turnovers / steals etc? Also any plans to make it work from camera footage e.g. A 360 camera that can capture the whole court at once instead of syncing?
Yeah! We are planning to add blocks, steals, and rebounds in the coming months. I think fouls is still a reach goal right now (hard even for humans) but maybe one day. Re: capturing the whole court, I think we are considering supporting panning of the camera (in addition to syncing). We focus pretty heavily on making sure things work with just a normal phone so it's more accessible to everyone. We are definitely star…
Re:fouls.
At my pickups courts we call our own fouls by saying Foul. Perhaps the mic can pickup key words matched the play stopping.
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#16Awesome! I someday hope to find the time to make something like this for soccer - individual skill drills as well as gameplay analysis. Care to share any technical details about how your analysis pipeline works? :)
Yeah, it would be super cool if all sports had things like this, i think it really enriches the player's experience. I know in tennis there is swingvision so definitely seems like things are headed that way. We ended up having to collect our own data and train our own deep learning models for detecting balls, players, court, actions, and tracking. But this was because we needed to make things work almost all the time…
Adidas made some soccer balls with built-in sensors that can provide data in almost real-time to your phone (ie. take a shot and review ball speed, rotation, point of strike etc...). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpIOnnU1R_o&t=119s (unfortunately no english subtitles).
Also, the technology was used in their latest Euro 2024 ball - the Fussballliebe - to help video referees and their decisions.
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#17This is very interesting and well executed for the initial release. Good luck! One thing I found odd was that the default/main screen in the app is a feed. That feed is just short videos without any of the game data the app captures. Perhaps an overlay would showoff the app as well as the skills. The videos by themselves don't add much differentiated value.
Yeah, that could be cool -- we played around with some designs on showing the leading scorer or some ranking in each feed card as well. I can't say we've cracked it yet but I like the idea of an overlay.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah! We are planning to add blocks, steals, and rebounds in the coming months. I think fouls is still a reach goal right now (hard even for humans) but maybe one day. Re: capturing the whole court, I think we are considering supporting panning of the camera (in addition to syncing). We focus pretty heavily on making sure things work with just a normal phone so it's more accessible to everyone. We are definitely star…
Re:fouls. At my pickups courts we call our own fouls by saying Foul. Perhaps the mic can pickup key words matched the play stopping.
Oh neat, yeah we could some speech to text thing or maybe even some like visual signal thing to call fouls.
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#19This is awesome, thanks for sharing! Hooper sounds like a fantastic app for pickup basketball players. I love the idea of tracking actual gameplay and creating highlights. The ability to sync recordings and differentiate shots is impressive. Can't wait to try it out and see how it tracks my games. Great work!
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#20Amazing. Pitched something like this to a friend a few days ago and its awesome that you've built it. Headed to a game now and down to use it and give feedback (im in two groups and both have people setting up phones to record). Now add in an AI ref so people can stop arguing for 10 minutes over wether someone stepped out of bounds or not in a pickup game.