nathanhoad

How did I not think of Kanye?! Adding him to the built-ins right now.

That's a good idea. I think his default message will be "That's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if pays off".

http://athletable.com - I built it myself as a side project and, while it's still early days, things are going pretty well so far. The only real bottleneck for me was redoing the entire UI about 30 times. In the end I just told myself that I could always just change it after launch if people didn't like it.

Hmmm good idea. I might have a play with those sizes and see what I can work out.

Cheers for the comments. While Athletable is more targeted at companies it would be cool to try and find a way for it to work for schools as well. Can you shoot me an email at nathan [at] nathanhoad [dot] net so we can have a chat.

Yeah pricing is hard. All Athletable trials are 45 days at the moment so I figure I've got a few weeks of pricing tests to work it out.

Cheers for the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback.

If you never get around to building the module (I was toying around with the leaderboard/stats app idea for a few years too :-P) then you are always welcome to join Athletable :)

It's certainly not for everyone but it's like the 37signals guys always say: scratch an itch. This has been an itch for a few places I've worked at so I figured I'd make something. Thanks for the feedback though :)

That's a good idea to have the bulk invite. I might show a different form for when the account owner adds the initial players and then the single form for when there are already a few players.

At the moment the ranking algorithm is a blur between ELO and the one used for Tennis. I'd like to eventually give people the option per sport to decide between a few different ranking methods.

Cheers. I have no idea what that is but let me know if Athletable can accommodate it any better :)

I guess it depends what the idea actually is but I'd suggest forging ahead anyway - there is always going to be someone out there with the same idea.

Haha, yeah maybe BRW should read their own articles :-P

We had a ton of people watching over the past few days so we though we would share it again to see if people are still interested.

Ok guys, it's been an interesting day and now we are heading off to bed. Thanks for zany chat antics over the course of the day ;-)

Hey, you can always broadcast a dance!

PS. I'm not the guy in the black shirt :-P

Thanks. Good luck with your next venture ;-)

The new site has been live for two weeks. We are still working out the rough edges but it's been fun and there are plenty of new things coming out soon!

Funnily enough we do have Mind Heist (the trailer music from Inception) playing in the office :-P

Yes. Perhaps there should have been more programming and fewer chair races :-P

Yeah the video guys are working on that at the moment.

We do have the public broadcasting like Justin.tv and UStream but we also have a focus on creating networks of friends that you can chat with and video call.

When broadcasting you do have the option of opening it up to the world like the other sites but you can also limit the broadcast to just friends or even just specific people.

More stuff in the works but we can't really talk about it yet :-P

Hi guys. I'm a founder and just signed up to say hello and answer questions that people might have.