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FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?

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Re: FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?

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Post by veritas »

8en wrote: post #20

I would take a look at BallHype.com. It seems like it's well-designed and well-executed, but hasn't taken off just yet. It would be good to understand what happened - whether they were too broad in focus, or whether there is something about the digg model that doesn't quite resonate for sports fans. As a side note, I would not require registration to vote, and I would not require a valid email address. It don't feel…

Fair enough Ben. The register to vote is so that people just can't vote up an article (their own) over and over again.

The email address isn't checked to be valid. I just ask for one so that if it is ever needed (email lost info, close accounts etc) I can use it.

Re: FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?

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Post by paulgb »

Alex3917 wrote: post #18

I heard a story about some guy who started a sports website six months ago, and then sold it for thirty million dollars three months ago. Not sure of the details, but it seems like there's money to be made.

It is probably not the one you are thinking of, but ArmchairGM has a similar story - created in early 2006, sold for $2 (to Wikia, Jimbo Wales' wiki startup) in December of that year.

veritas, You might want to take a look at ArmcharGM(.com), they are probably one of your bigger competitors.

Re: FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?

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Post by veritas »

paulgb wrote: post #22
Alex3917 wrote: post #18

I heard a story about some guy who started a sports website six months ago, and then sold it for thirty million dollars three months ago. Not sure of the details, but it seems like there's money to be made.

It is probably not the one you are thinking of, but ArmchairGM has a similar story - created in early 2006, sold for $2 (to Wikia, Jimbo Wales' wiki startup) in December of that year. veritas, You might want to take a look at ArmcharGM(.com), they are probably one of your bigger competitors.

Thanks for the insight paul. Will take a look.

Re: FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?

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Post by ktus »

veritas wrote: post #17
ktus wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First observation, I'm logging in from a laptop with a small screen (15") and I have to scroll left-right. It would have been nice if it fits into the page (like news.yc).

Huh really? I'm logged in from a macbook (13 in) and it fits fine. Its also a fluid layout so it should resize automatically. I'll take a look and see what's causing it. Anyone else having this problem? Edit: alrite... I've deployed a fix to the CSS. It should fit the screen now. Can you try it out and get back to me?

It's looking good now but i'm using Firefox on Ubuntu.. Earlier I was looking at it in Firefox on a PC running Windows...

I'll look at it again tomorrow from my windows machine at work and get back to you.

Re: FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?

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Post by veritas »

ktus wrote: post #24
veritas wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh really? I'm logged in from a macbook (13 in) and it fits fine. Its also a fluid layout so it should resize automatically. I'll take a look and see what's causing it. Anyone else having this problem? Edit: alrite... I've deployed a fix to the CSS. It should fit the screen now. Can you try it out and get back to me?

It's looking good now but i'm using Firefox on Ubuntu.. Earlier I was looking at it in Firefox on a PC running Windows... I'll look at it again tomorrow from my windows machine at work and get back to you.

You probably don't need to. I think it was an error on my part in the CSS file. In either case, let me know if it recurs or there's another bug. Thanks for the input :)

Re: FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?

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Post by gyro_robo »

veritas wrote: post #2

Link: http://www.fanstate.com Its a digg like website for football (soccer) news that I launched yesterday. It allows you to gain points (like Digg/Reddit) and then wager those points on matches being played. Built using Ruby on Rails. Thoughts?

You need a tagline like, "Show Some Balls"

Re: FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?

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Post by volida »

veritas wrote: post #28
volida wrote: post #27

change the font

Any reason why? Its set to "Lucida Grande" which I believe is an okay choice. If someone doesn't have that it defaults to Times New Roman which is safe. What font would you suggest?

It felt getting me tired reading...
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