Thread: Fastlane Plan-- Sports

I have to say on the surface that sounds like a good idea, I'll be curious to see how it plays out for you. Good luck.

Yea I agree. I like the idea too. I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. I'd probably use it. It sounds like a facebook for sports.

Originally Posted by domular

I have to say on the surface that sounds like a good idea, I'll be curious to see how it plays out for you. Good luck.

Thank you-- I'm very motivated right now. I've beat this idea around in my head awhile and always have made excuses- This is too big of a project, how could I possibly program something like this. I've decided I'm not going to fail. I'm going to work through and take this to the top.

Originally Posted by Likwid24

Yea I agree. I like the idea too. I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. I'd probably use it. It sounds like a facebook for sports.

This is what I'm shooting for. I have some ideas that I think are going to be golden. Stuff is really starting to come together in my mind!

Sounds good. Keep us updated as you move through the steps in your plan ...once you have it

Sounds very interesting, best of luck and send invitations when it's ready

If it works out well you can probably get a lot of sponsors too, much advertising goes on in sports.

Originally Posted by FastNAwesome

Sounds very interesting, best of luck and send invitations when it's ready

If it works out well you can probably get a lot of sponsors too, much advertising goes on in sports.

That is my exact thinking and why I'm so optimistic. I'll definitely get stuff ready when I get a little further along!

Sounds like a really cool idea. Honestly if you read MJ's book and watch this video series by Lean Start up Justin.tv - Startup Lessons Learned - 9:30am State of the Lean Startup Movement I can see this being a smashing success.

Man It's is great to see a good reception from everybody in the thread about my idea. Hopefully the rest of the sports world will think so as well!

Here's some stat's of sports attendance figures around the world. It's a HUGE market!

List of sports attendance figures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you need ideas, I'm full of them. This should be very interesting!

Cool man, I like the idea. I majored in sport administration in college and know there is a big market and a ton of interest in sports and I think something like this would work well. I am surprised something like this doesnt already exist.

Keep me updated

I'll start a progress thread this weekend and unveil the name and other things. I'm 90% sure on what name I'm going to do.

Yeesh, I hate to be the naysayer of the bunch but I'm having a hard time seeing the purpose of such an app, unless I'm missing something. I guess my main concerns is, why wouldn't your potential customers just use foursquare or facebook or gowalla or some other app they're already on that can be used for lots more things than just sports games?

The other concern is, I feel as though the average person doesn't go to that many sporting events in a year (maybe 1? unless they're in college) and it seems like too much effort for lazy consumers to get an app for such a specific event...what if your friend who you want to meet up with doesn't have the app? Maybe I don't completely understand what the social network would include so feel free to take this opportunity to sell me on your idea

Originally Posted by BobbySoFamous

Yeesh, I hate to be the naysayer of the bunch but I'm having a hard time seeing the purpose of such an app, unless I'm missing something. I guess my main concerns is, why wouldn't your potential customers just use foursquare or facebook or gowalla or some other app they're already on that can be used for lots more things than just sports games?

The other concern is, I feel as though the average person doesn't go to that many sporting events in a year (maybe 1? unless they're in college) and it seems like too much effort for lazy consumers to get an app for such a specific event...what if your friend who you want to meet up with doesn't have the app? Maybe I don't completely understand what the social network would include so feel free to take this opportunity to sell me on your idea

You are not a big sports fan. People buy season tickets, people try and visit every ball park, people plan vacations to be at sporting events. Just look at the fantasy websites.

To the OP, dude, go fast, get it going and sellout, you don't want to compete with the CBSsports.coms and those gorillas, they have a huge footprint, but if you get a good base going they may want to buy it to launch their own program.

Originally Posted by healthstatus

You are not a big sports fan. People buy season tickets, people try and visit every ball park, people plan vacations to be at sporting events. Just look at the fantasy websites.

To the OP, dude, go fast, get it going and sellout, you don't want to compete with the CBSsports.coms and those gorillas, they have a huge footprint, but if you get a good base going they may want to buy it to launch their own program.

Thank you that is the ultimate plan and Bobby I appreciate your point of view and look at it but their are other features and things that will make this a Sports Hub separating it from FaceBook and other networks.

I don't know about you guys but during big sporting events look at your News Feed it is ridiculous all people are doing is giving a play by play of the game.

Where Are The Sports Social Networks?

Maybe you can garner some ideas/thought on moving forward from this article.

... and also

Sports and Social Media: Why the Best Is Yet to Come

20+ Sporting Social Networks

Sports social network gets $5 million cash infusion | Blog network editorial - CNET News

Originally Posted by JDub07

Thank you that is the ultimate plan and Bobby I appreciate your point of view and look at it but their are other features and things that will make this a Sports Hub separating it from FaceBook and other networks.

Separate in terms of features but not accessibility or visibility...i.e, the social graph is your friend.

Thanks for those Links they were good reads.