Show HN: My weekend app, iWagerr. Track and share casual bets with your friends
iwagerr.com
iwagerr.com
See http://www.gambling-law-us.com/Federal-Laws/ for a list of articles on some of the gambling laws. In particular if you become popular, users will begin betting on sports, putting you squarely afoul of http://www.gambling-law-us.com/Federal-Laws/sports-protectio....
I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but there is a reason that the bazillion gambling websites out there are not US based.
I'm positioning iWagerr as an app just to track casual wagers. I'm emphasizing "casual" because I'd like it to be the de-facto place to place non-financial bets (such as those in the examples I gave above).
Think of it as a notepad-like web app where you just track challenges against friend and see who "wins" those wagers.
This is in no way a gambling site, since I'm not offering odds on any wagers or have credits/money transacting through iWagerr.
What: iWagerr makes tracking and sharing casual bets with friends easy. Use iWagerr to challenge your friends on Twitter and keep track of your win-loss record.
Why: My friends and I found it pretty frustrating that there was no easy way to track or share bets we have with one another (e.g. "I bet you that I can down 10 tacos in 20 minutes or I'll pay for dinner next time!" or "If Chelsea beat Manchester United, I'll eat my socks.").
Link: http://www.iwagerr.com - Would love to know your thoughts.
Re. the site design:
* personally, I find your main font off-putting and difficult to read
* you should stop appending a full stop to the tweets on the home page - it looks odd when they end with punctuation (e.g. "Gentleman's Agreement?.")
* I've removed the period at the end of the sentence as well, if the user's wager already has one. Thanks for pointing this out.