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Interesting. Why a 300$ phone?

Can u share how long it took to build and what is your day job ?

Took roughly 2 weeks from start to finish. Work as a web dev in an accounting firm. As to the choice of the phone, got a Samsung Galaxy A23 on takealot.com a while back and decided to use it to build a site

Now you have a second job updating the prediction outcomes :P. I was thinking it would be cool to sync them from github so folks could contribute an outcome.

Lol, a second job? I sincerely hope not.

I don't think the site'll garner much interest though. Betting virtual money doesn't really seem like a mainstream activity.

Just wanted to put it out in the wild and get critiques.

> Betting virtual money doesn't really seem like a mainstream activity.

You'd be surprised: https://www.metaculus.com/

Did you type the code on the phone's touch screen or using an external keyboard?

I used the phone's touchscreen

This may seem like a dumb question but why not use a laptop?

From the OP:

"I wanted to see how difficult it would be to build a web app using a sub-$300 android smartphone"

I guess a fun challenge of sorts.

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