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Ask HN: Any Hackers Love Sports?

9 points by guinness74 ↗ HN
First time, long time--do any hackers here love sports? I do. As a sports fan, I don't feel like there are many quality Apps on mobile devices. Twitter has enhanced how I watch television, sports included, but there's a lot of noise. There are a plethora of scoreboard apps, but where's the App that will revolutionize the game day experience for the fan? Is anyone interested in brainstorming, prototyping, and developing the home screen app for sports fans with me? If so, respond here and we can exchange contact information.

I have a strong development background in C++ / MySQL / PHP / JavaScript / some Objective C. I'm also somewhat networked with new sports media. An ideal co-founder would have a strong iOS and Objective C background, and loves sports.

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pennyarkham
Sports are for idiot working class men.
guinness74
I was excited because I saw a comment, but then I read it and I wasn't.
ScottWhigham
If this sort of response is what you consider a "contribution" to this community, we're better off without you.
etanazir
Yeah; Yacht racing is for the schleppers.
kohanz
I definitely love sports and am currently working on a side-project in that area. However, it is not an in-game experience. Hoping to do a Show HN soon to share it.

My feeling is that the "in-game" experience will be tough to crack. Call me old fashioned, but when I sit down to watch a game, I may have a second screen open, but it's rarely used to augment watching the game, it's mostly for multi-tasking.

penguinlinux
Wait until the Word Cup comes this year, I know many hackers that love Soccer.
pmcpinto
A real soccer fan watches games during all year, not only in the World Cup :)
frenchhacker
Sounds interesting to me. I have a couple of side projects involving visualization and comparison of data from track and field events. My technical background includes Python, Java, Postgresql, Javascript. Unfortunately no iOS.
chatmasta
I run d1 track in college right now. Would love to talk about this with you if you want. milesrichardson@gmail.com
pmcpinto
I'm a big fan of sports, mainly soccer and basketball, but I don't have any background on iOS and Objective C.

During games I usually use a second screen to debate with my friends what's happening in the game or to share some betting tips.

In case you need something more feel free to ask me.

rawland
I love To Do Sports.

Every now and then a story on "Exercise/Sleep/Meditate well and you will reach the Nirvana of Human 2.0" comes up here at HN. But the thing is, that Sports are quite fundamental. According to Wikipedia: "Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive physical activity". It's analogous to all "entrepreneurs" here doing "competitive mental activity", at least if you are in the same industrial sector. It's not exercising only, sports teaches you about sportsmanship, respect and fairness. That's what I look up to.

Heck, Hacking itself is even some kind of sport to me.

So, if you need somebody in order to raise the experience of doing sports: I'm all yours. ;-)

ada1981
We have a community of Founders / Investors that started this year that love Ultimate Frisbee. Invite only events where we play / mastermind / do deals / hang.

Current members include Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Elliott Bisnow of Summit Series, Evan Reas of Circle and others.

http://UltimateFounders.com

GrahamsNumber
Some "hackers" love sports, the pope is catholic and water is wet.
freshrap6
Big sports fan here. I enjoy watching the game and participating. I've been working on a side project for managing the social sport/rec league teams I play on.

The idea you raised is an interesting one. There are lots of really cool visualizations out there these days. I've always wondered how we could make them more useful during the games.

geldedus
"love sports" like in "couch potato watching sports on TV getting fatter with beer, pizza and chips"? no thanks