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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 1:59 AM UTC

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Post by prpetten » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 2:09 AM UTC

So this is my baby, I've spent the last 2 years or so working on it, and I've written every line of code myself. When I started the site, I had rusty technical skills; it had been over 7 years since I'd written anything besides a SQL statement. I've developed something that has really resonated with passionate college basketball fans. I get about 100k unique visitors per month at this point.

I would love any feedback you have on the site if you see anything that jumps out at you.

I would love to find someone who shares a passion for college recruiting to help with the technical work in exchange for equity. The site is written in Ruby on Rails, hosted by Heroku with Postgres DB. If you're interested please let me know, I've got a feature list with some cool ideas on that I need help to develop.

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Post by tomasien » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 2:34 AM UTC

Commenting to mark for myself to comment more later - huge college sports recruiting fan and this looks amazing. How did you get the data? I looked through my alma mater UVA and it was flawless, and I would know. Saturday night is a terrible time to have posted this + Zimmerman verdict. I'd delte before you hit an hour and repost Monday around 730 west cost or east coast

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Post by davefp » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 2:37 AM UTC

prpetten wrote: post #2

So this is my baby, I've spent the last 2 years or so working on it, and I've written every line of code myself. When I started the site, I had rusty technical skills; it had been over 7 years since I'd written anything besides a SQL statement. I've developed something that has really resonated with passionate college basketball fans. I get about 100k unique visitors per month at this point. I would love any feedback…

I took a look at the site and I have no idea what it is. Care to elaborate?

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Post by prpetten » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 2:52 AM UTC

tomasien wrote: post #3

Commenting to mark for myself to comment more later - huge college sports recruiting fan and this looks amazing. How did you get the data? I looked through my alma mater UVA and it was flawless, and I would know. Saturday night is a terrible time to have posted this + Zimmerman verdict. I'd delte before you hit an hour and repost Monday around 730 west cost or east coast

Thanks, I'll take your advice!

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Post by prpetten » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 2:53 AM UTC

davefp wrote: post #4

prpetten wrote: post #2

So this is my baby, I've spent the last 2 years or so working on it, and I've written every line of code myself. When I started the site, I had rusty technical skills; it had been over 7 years since I'd written anything besides a SQL statement. I've developed something that has really resonated with passionate college basketball fans. I get about 100k unique visitors per month at this point. I would love any feedback…

I took a look at the site and I have no idea what it is. Care to elaborate?

Its a site showing the roster for every college basketball team in Division 1 with profiles for every player on their roster, and every HS player they're currently recruiting.