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I was lucky enough to work at Dropbox for a bit. Awesome engineering culture and such good people. Got to even grab a beer and rip karaoke with Drew. Thanks for creating such an awesome working environment Drew. I cannot say thank you enough for those memories or that experience. By far the best CEO and leader I've seen.

Tennis Scorigami 1 year ago

Just a note, if you guys haven't checked out the `Explore` page, I would highly recommend doing that for some interesting visualizations. My first page -> second page dropoff % is higher than I would have hoped for...

Tennis Scorigami 1 year ago

Great feedback. I hear ya on the automatic carousels just was trying to capture that scoreboard-esque feel.

I'll take action on these comments soon(ish). But yes, I concur I need to drastically improve the mobile layout tbh.

Tennis Scorigami 1 year ago

Honestly, it ends up being about 30% of the way I interact with my landing page. For better or for worse.

Tennis Scorigami 1 year ago

Ok 1) thank you for the comment about the website haha I am flattered. 2) Anything I could do to make your more invested in the numbers? I get what you mean about some of the scores being almost too homogenous and therefore the fact it's unique at a best-of-5 level makes it almost less globally unique. Any thoughts on how I could make the "story" a bit more interesting?

I'm working on Tennis Scorigami - a data viz and tennis centric project somewhat similar to NFL's scorigami, but with a little bit more (if i do say so) interesting visualizations / new ways to look at the data.

From a technical side, I've processed around 325k+ matches. Right now, only main ATP / WTA matches (no challengers, no doubles, no mixed) sadly. I'm working on expanding that, improving our infra layout, exposing a public facing API, collecting the data on my own, and most importantly live score ingestion (especially given the fact that Wimbledon is starting tomorrow).

Feedback on the app through Canny / joining the Discord / following the Twitter / or any and all of the above would be much appreciated.