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Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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Post by collypops »

This is looking very polished already. My biggest barrier to entry was having to go through the invite process for each person in my office, so I'd prefer to have a single form that you can add multiple people to, then submit once. You could even take advantage of the fact that most people in a workplace will have a common email suffix, and pre-fill that.

Great app though. I think we'll have a lot of fun with this.

Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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Post by nathanhoad »

twe4ked wrote: post #5

Looks good, it would be cool if you added some sort of proper ranking for certain games. Something similar to ELO where everyone is ranked and you win more points by beating someone that is ranked higher.

At the moment the ranking algorithm is a blur between ELO and the one used for Tennis. I'd like to eventually give people the option per sport to decide between a few different ranking methods.

Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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Post by nathanhoad »

collypops wrote: post #4

This is looking very polished already. My biggest barrier to entry was having to go through the invite process for each person in my office, so I'd prefer to have a single form that you can add multiple people to, then submit once. You could even take advantage of the fact that most people in a workplace will have a common email suffix, and pre-fill that. Great app though. I think we'll have a lot of fun with this.

That's a good idea to have the bulk invite. I might show a different form for when the account owner adds the initial players and then the single form for when there are already a few players.

Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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Post by bwilliams18 »

nathanhoad wrote: post #7
collypops wrote: post #4

This is looking very polished already. My biggest barrier to entry was having to go through the invite process for each person in my office, so I'd prefer to have a single form that you can add multiple people to, then submit once. You could even take advantage of the fact that most people in a workplace will have a common email suffix, and pre-fill that. Great app though. I think we'll have a lot of fun with this.

That's a good idea to have the bulk invite. I might show a different form for when the account owner adds the initial players and then the single form for when there are already a few players.

That's more work than you need to do, just provide two options-bulk add, or single add...the person is smart enough to know which to choose.

Re: Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

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Post by ruswick »

The idea is novel, but it's a solution to a trivial problem. Most companies probably don't pay any significant amount of thought to sports standings. Fewer still would take the time out of their day to contend with some sort of system to keep track everything, much less pay for such a system.

It seems like a complex solution to a negligible issue.

EDIT: More so than the price, the work involved in implementing a system like this is probably the biggest deterrent. Games are a casual thing, and most people will be unwilling to tabulate and record everything after playing.

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