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Re: Ask HN: Review my web app, AreaTeams

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Post by jrwoodruff »

It feels like a nice exercise in utilizing the google maps api, but I'm not sure this is solving a real problem. If I want to know when the next detroit tigers home game is (hardly what I consider local here 2 hours outside of detroit), I'm going to ESPN or the tigers site.

Increase the scope to include college games, and include non-mainstream sports (rugby, volleyball, etc.), ditch the map as the main site nav, and you might have something.

And yea, ditch the adwords until you get traffic. I thought it was seo at first.

Re: Ask HN: Review my web app, AreaTeams

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Post by lastps »

b4 i looked at the site i thought it was a great name for the idea i was assuming -- "area" teams in the semi-anonymous onion sense, meaning, local teams like high school, local/division ii/iii college, etc.

not that focusing on the majors is bad -- it's a good idea -- i just thought it worth mentioning that the word "area" conjured up high school and not majors for me.

Re: Ask HN: Review my web app, AreaTeams

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Post by abesapien »

lastps wrote: post #15

b4 i looked at the site i thought it was a great name for the idea i was assuming -- "area" teams in the semi-anonymous onion sense, meaning, local teams like high school, local/division ii/iii college, etc. not that focusing on the majors is bad -- it's a good idea -- i just thought it worth mentioning that the word "area" conjured up high school and not majors for me.

Yes i thought it would definitely include local high school games and even possibly local hobby leagues. There are a lot of those. Funny when I grew up in Richmond, VA there was a local Rugby league. The athletes there were amazing . I was just lucky I lived nearby and I am not sure if anyone else in the neighborhood even knew about it . If they did they would have been exposed to a different sport from a different culture with great action.

Re: Ask HN: Review my web app, AreaTeams

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Post by pedalpete »

mshafrir wrote: post #5
pedalpete wrote: post #3

USE google.loader.ClientLocation; to sniff out the current location of the site visitor. I'm in California and you're showing me NYC. Not super effective. Also (as frossie alluded to) you need an input to allow searching by location. Don't worry about zip code vs city, etc. Pass the data from the search box to the google api and it will do the rest.

I'm using server side lookup based on ip and falling back to google client location, but you're right on that I should just be using google client location. Definitel gives more accurate results.

Oh, whatever you use, just use it. It didn't get my location, but placed me in nyc, so I assumed you weren't doing an ip lookup.
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