myusuf3: Beware; you appear to have been hellbanned from HN between 145 and 149 days ago. I can't figure out why, as you do not seem to have said anything objectionable in that time. This means that none of your submissions or comments in that time -- including your reply to this comment -- have shown up to anybody (except users like me with showdead enabled.) You can probably appeal the decision to pg; or you could just create a new account.
I like this concept a lot. NoFouls.com does something similar for basketball, but the regular games are never on there. It's always some guy trying to get a game by his house, emailing everybody in the city who is nowhere close to him. Hopefully this works out better. It's tough because most guys only know the times for one court. And so you'd need a lot of those guys to signup and post. However, there are some that make the rounds, getting those people as curators would be ideal. One guy I knew who did that went around recruiting for hoopitup tournaments to get the best teams and win $10k :).
yeah that could definitely be a way of doing it; solely depends on the community. I think the idea might have been also to get leagues up and running with the tool as an organizational tool for games and practices and team discussion.
Yea definitely. I signed up for NoFouls and found it to be of no use for me. A really good use for this type of app though is to find teammates for a rec league - especially in the winter weather; everybody has to play in a indoor league for soccer, basketball etc.
Problem is if you are not a sponsored corporate or church team, you are just a "free-agent"; you just get assigned and put on random teams. It'd be cool to pair people who are interested to sign up for a rec league team to figure out what kind of team they want to be in - kinda of like a "recreational sports speed dating."
I dont know; its pretty nice and user friendly. I am sure they are facebook too. it integrates with facebook and twitter. plus appeal to the athlete in them.
Great concept and very cool design!
Two suggestions for improvement:
- Let users play and organize before they have to log in
- The home page was a bit confusing to me, as it didn't have a very clear distinct "call to action" (read "the big red fez" by Seth Godin to understand more about that, over 10 years old and still very relevant).
You should consider working with/pulling data from the Get a Game app. Their app sucks but they are doing a good job getting partnerships to pull in games from existing networks.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 82.4 ms ] threadI was once hellbanned for 4 days, for no reason (they said it was a mistake). I was reinstated by sending an appeal to that address.
Problem is if you are not a sponsored corporate or church team, you are just a "free-agent"; you just get assigned and put on random teams. It'd be cool to pair people who are interested to sign up for a rec league team to figure out what kind of team they want to be in - kinda of like a "recreational sports speed dating."
The only problem for me is getting my not so tech savvy community to find/use this.
We're tackling (pun intended) the same problem (it's an interesting one!) but from a mobile perspective and focusing solely on Soccer.
If you have an iPhone app and fancy giving it a try, you can grab the app (free!) from http://www.ifives.net.
If you add an api I'll hook it up to impromptudo.
- Let users play and organize before they have to log in
- The home page was a bit confusing to me, as it didn't have a very clear distinct "call to action" (read "the big red fez" by Seth Godin to understand more about that, over 10 years old and still very relevant).
http://techcocktail.com/get-a-game-app-2011-09#.TweHNZjaa2w