Review a Startup: YouCompete | Hacker News Reader

Review a Startup: YouCompete

4 pointsalan-youcompete8 comments

https://www.you-compete.com

In short: Competition management meets social networking

Problem: Managing your own competition over the internets nowadays tends to boil down to one of a few broad categories: - Write your own website - Buy a template site and tweak it to your needs - Send everything over email

Solution: A site for coordinating competitions which combines flexible administration with the social trappings of Web 2.0.

If that's all a little too abstract, a few concrete examples of what YouCompete does: - Aggregate player activity for a match (Who can attend?) - Notify you via email when a match is cancelled - Compute standings by Win Percentage, Points (Hockey, Soccer) or Rating (Chess) - Coordinate an N-team single-elimination tournament bracket

Sign up and create a league or check out a few of the example leagues we've set up to get a flavor for the site: https://www.you-compete.com/leagues?q=example

Thanks!

I agree with the other comments. Here it is with a different (no) background and different (no) logo:

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/392/ucompete.jpg

Too bright and your logo looks too cartoony. Combined with a small font size the site is unreadable. Redo your landing page in less garish colors, and that should be your top priority.

Thanks for the honest feedback. After a while of looking at the same thing, you can easily lose perspective. We'll take another another look at how to redo the design.

It's really, really difficult to read because of the font sizes/layout/design. I couldn't get past that so I clicked out. Looks like a useful idea though. Maybe hire a designer?

my feature request:

allow an event coordinator to set up a bracket for an external competition, allow people to predict the outcome, have results be entered, and grade people on it. like march madness brackets but for any type of event that the app supports.

would make the app pertinent to fans as well as competitors.

That's a cool idea for getting people more involved. I have no idea whether its an issue, but I think we'll have to take a closer look to make sure we wouldn't run afoul of gambling laws.

(ianal, but) you probably won't. there are other sites out there that do exactly this, except i've not found one that isn't messy/spammy/etc.. would love to see something clean, flexible, and easy to use.

Your Idea is great, small changes in look and feel will help a lot.

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