Yep, that's my target audience: gamblers and those that play fantasy sports or are in pickem pools. I've thought about how to add credibility to submissions but decided to leave that out for now.
It's crazy that I found this today...I just started something similar except instead of coding every day I set a goal of 4 hours per week and I use Beeminder to track my progress. Many of the benefits you listed are spot on especially "the feeling of making progress is just as important as making actual progress." Now that I have children, coding for 8 hours on a Saturday just doesn't work. To reach my current goal of 4 hours per week, I plan on coding for 30 minutes in the morning or night where I can but I also have arranged with my wife one weeknight where I leave the house and go code at a coffee shop for 2-3 hours.
I use an iphone app called Mind Jogger. It's a good solution in that is does constantly remind me of things I tend to forget about, things that are important in my life, but as others have stated, eventually you begin to ignore them.
Very nice! Beautiful and very fast for the amount of data that is calculated on the fly. What technologies did you use? Also, did you have to pay license fees to display team and conference logos?
MVC3 + SQL Server + Mongo + custom software for the realtime calculations.
All components (with the exception of the front-end) are highly abstracted enabling us to swap technologies (e.g. SQL Server to MySQL, Mongo to Memcached) quickly.
Yeah, I'd like to know about the process of showing team logos and the stats. Are you just scraping the data from somewhere, or do you have permission to use any of this data? I'm wanting to build and application similar to this for the NHL (if we have a season... har har...) but the licensing of big teams is scaring me away some.
It took me 4 months working on and off, mornings and weekends to finally get my first app in the iTunes store. I was hesitant to learn objective C so I started out trying to build it with html/javascript/phonegap using tiggzi.com. After getting rejected twice for the app not being up to Apple's standards, I bit the bullet and dove into objective c. I watched a few Stanford classes in iTunes but mostly I did a lot of searching on StackOverflow.
I don't know how many times I had to set a reminder to track time with a client. Now I can do it immediately on the go. I've been waiting for this app!
I figured out this was happening when I saw a few videos in my feed from friends that wouldn't normally be posting them. My first thought was that they were spam or that someone hacked their Facebook account. I did some asking around and these friend's had no idea this was happening. (It's kind of embarrassing when everyone see's that you watched a video of a chick in a bikini) I think it is a really shady practice by both companies but I guess they don't have much choice in the battle for #1. Either way, be very careful the videos you click on in your news feed.
The secret is that when you accept the app you tell it to automatically share with "yourself". (And you can do that with the social reader apps, too.) This stops you from spamming your friends, although you still may want to clean up your timeline so you don't have to see the noise.
