Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

by railsbob • 15 years ago

20 17 15 years ago

railsbob2• 15 years ago

Bettingly is a social fantasy betting game. Your goal is to correctly predict outcomes of real cricket, football and tennis games and earn as many L¥ as possibe! Any feedback will help us to make it more fun and interesting.

jsavimbi• 15 years ago

Conceptually, I've seen many of these fantasy-social-sports-betting sites, so I hope you have a good idea in regards to user apathy towards them, but best of luck to you anyway.

From a UI perspective, as I won't login using Facebook to get the whole UX, your design is very middle of the road, like the new HN theme, which I really disapprove of. Not necessarily a bad thing at launch, but keep in mind that you'll have to go up against entrenched players if you're looking for a global market outside of cricket and badminton.

Best of luck and I hope you find a passion in it.

dclaysmith• 15 years ago

I like the idea and would probably be interested... but I fall into the group that hates using Facebook to log in and prefer a short registration. There is not a chance I'd give access to my Wall and the "any time" access.

Add a standard login process and I'll check it out.

railsbob2• 15 years ago

Thanks! We have enabled email signups now :)

qeorge• 15 years ago

Looks like you've got it covered, but I thought this worth mentioning anyway. Facebook has a new registration/Connect option that can fall back to a normal form for those w/o FB:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/

Implementing it today on a client's site, its not too bad.

wheelibin• 15 years ago

typo: odss in the section "Cricket, Football & Tennis"

binarymax• 15 years ago

Looks very interesting, but unfortunately those are not my sports.

FYI the text "We will never post anything to your wall without your explicit permission." is getting visually cropped for me. I am chrome 9.0.597.107 on win7, and my screen res is 1600x1200.

smokeyj• 15 years ago

This looks like a fun concept with a large potential market. You probably won't get great feedback here because HN isn't your audience, so take advice with a grain of salt. Maybe present this to the sports sections on different forums like Reddit and other fantasy league sites. Maybe you could give more currency to members who recruit other members, like an affiliate system. Just some ideas, good luck!

dshipper• 15 years ago

I like the concept! My only issue is that I don't know how to pronounce your currency - maybe make it more clear what the verbalization of the symbol is. Otherwise cool site.

jorkos• 15 years ago

In terms of the design, it's fairly flat right now....try to highlight the one or two things you want peoples' eyes to go to first.

imp• 15 years ago

I have some experience with fantasy sports, and my two cents is that it seems like you'll have a hard time getting traction. Although fantasy sports are popular, you're not really tying into any existing fantasy games. You're creating a brand new game from scratch, and that will be hard to do.

As a user, I couldn't care less about it being "social" or not. It's either going to be fun or not fun. I think the landing page should be overhauled to somehow show me why it would be fun. I wasn't convinced enough to join.

Also, I don't know what country you're targeting, but it's probably not mine (U.S.). Maybe if I were interested in cricket, soccer, or tennis, I would be more likely to join.

Edit: I tried clicking on the links for upcoming events, and they all redirected me to the home page. I wanted to browse around the site before joining but I wasn't able to.

mendicant• 15 years ago

Looks like a ton of fun.... but I don't follow football, cricket or tennis.

If there was American Football, hockey and basketball I can think of at least 10 people I'd send this site to right now.

Also, kudos to including a real user signup alongside the facebook signup.

Kuiper• 15 years ago

I was going to suggest registering betting.ly since it seems like an obvious domain hack, but it looks like it's already taken.

bhickey• 15 years ago

This is fairly common in the UK. Over here people use real money instead of funnymoney.

mohsen• 15 years ago

just a suggestion

for your richest players, if they don't have any change then the decimal points don't show up and the rows don't align as nice. maybe add that in there.

as i said, just a suggestion.

psb• 15 years ago

love the idea (partly cause I considered doing something like this previously). Here are some things you could do - Give the top performers a diary where they explain their thought processes about their bets, show what wagers the top betters have made (individually and in aggregate), and allow your users to join "teams" ie "team London" might compete against "team Liverpool". Also I would specify a fixed weekly bankroll to make it a fair competition. Anyway, best of luck!

kirpekar• 15 years ago

I was excited to see some Cricket betting, but my corporate filter blocked me as "gambling"

Ask HN: Review bettingly.com

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