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I have 2 M/S apps and 3 HRD. They are all down :(

here's my startup/side project: http://app.pickemfirst.com

I'm also at the intersection of HN and fantasy football, which led me to create http://app.pickemfirst.com a browser extension to manage your fantasy teams

that's exactly what I'm during at my day job: http://nextbio.com

it is not moderated at all. Updates to existing extensions are available within seconds on the chrome webstore...

I'm sure they will add american football this summer. and I haven't heard of fantasy soccer on cbs sports.

CBS takes a 30% cut on all app sales

what makes you think they will ?

On day 1, they have 11 apps from 5 companies.

It will be interesting to see if many developers jump in. My experience is that the intersection between fantasy sports fans and the tech crowd is very thin.

I have already build 4 (small) apps on CBS' platform. I will be happy to share my experience if anyone on HN is interested...

I'm building my first app. It's very easy to get started.

here is better summary of what's in it for developers http://sportology.us/2012/01/cbs-sports-offers-fantasy-platf...

I've just copy pasted http://pandodaily.com/ in Google Reader's subscribe field

and here's what I got: You have subscribed to "Most Odd - Facts of Interest." It discovered http://mostodd.wordpress.com/feed/

very odd indeed...

this used to be indicated in the previous version of the Chrome store.

But if I remember correctly there was no option for freemium. So most freemium apps were shown as free (mine included)

The new pages look good but I wonder how they chose the new featured extensions...

I created a fantasy sport extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cnnckoodldcbgegkml... It was featured in the old webstore in the sports category

In the new webstore, it is buried behind random team-based themes (university of Texas, Philadelphia Flyers...) and non sports related extensions (geo chaching, body mass index... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/ext/13-sports

Did they pick the extensions with the best looking banners ???

Is there anyway you can make your product more useful for your users if their friends join too ? Easier said than done, I know... but this is maybe the only way to generate more sharing.

all right, I will stay away from it... my partner was a bit reluctant anyway.

I don't really need to confirm them.

I was just wondering if it would help future emails find their way to the user's inbox...

Thanks for the pointers.

spammer sign up is not a concern.

I will try some A/B tests. I was ust hoping to get similar data from fellow HNers...

Thanks for the suggestions. The free tier would not be enough for me, but I don't mind spending $9.95 per month.

Does anyone have experience integrating SendGrid with a Google AppEngine Java application ?

yes, I enforce unique email addresses. You cannot take over an account. i do not allow for email address change.

Very few complains, In fact I wish I had more ;) My product is not spammy, It provides a great service, but I know I need to do a better at educating new users. It tough to do when my emails do not seem to reach them...

glad to see I'm not the only one here working on fantasy sports ! I've created http://pickemfirst.com and I'd love to chat with you about your project. email me at alain@pickemfirst.com

Have you looked for a co-founder ? Having someone else to work with or rely on is a great source of motivation...

have you tried http://www.hnvue.com/ ?

mobile apps are on our roadmap indeed. I'm just not sure if people research fantasy sports on their cell phone that much... Plus Yahoo and ESPN already have decent iPhone apps.

follow us on twitter @pickemfirst to et a notification when our Chrome extension is released.

good discussion to have... Actually when we started Pickemfirst, we used Google accounts for authentication. This became a problem because we needed specific settings on our cookies so that they are available to third party sites. Plus people complained it was too difficult to create a Google Account. Might be different with FB connect though...

agreed. Ideally we would have more than one video. And each one would target a specific audience. One thing is sure is that the only way to become good at fantasy sports is to do a lot of research. Both on the provider site and on others sites, blogs... This is obviously very time consuming.