Thanks Eric! Appreciate the kind intro.
Hi Product Hunters, I’m Nan, one of the founders of Sleeperbot.
As long-time fantasy sports players, we were frustrated that there hasn’t really been any innovative products addressing traditional leagues in over 10 years. We wanted to build one that didn’t suck, where you could enjoy a comparable experience on both web and mobile, and that emphasized the conversations you have with your friends without forcing you to jump off onto email or text messages.
Hope you guys check it out for your leagues this year, and let us know of any feedback you might have!
I'm mostly convinced! Happy to jump ship from Yahoo. Any chance your team has plans for co-commissionerships? I've got a league where I handle the technology side of things, but another person handles the scoring/trades/sport-specifics — is this something planned or already supported?
@kleinmaetschke Hi Klein, that's a great feature request that I'll bring up to the team. How would the delineation of the tech / sports roles work for you guys so I can better understand how we can implement something like that? The way we currently have the leagues set up is basically a 1 minute setup process with a turbo-tax like on-boarding with a couple default options for team size, scoring settings, etc., to make it easy for more casual commissioners to create a league without having to worry about predetermining hundreds of settings in advance. The leagues will then generate a unique invite link that you can share outwards with friends and it deep links them into your league. All of your leaguemates are brought into the league chat environment, and you can decide how best to further customize scoring/trades/and other specific settings together. In practice you can still be commissioner, and leverage the rest of your league's opinions to edit settings at any time prior to the start of the season. We even have built in polling to make it easier for you to gather opinions on things like draft time, type of scoring, number of roster positions, how trades work etc. All of that can be discussed with your league and decided on (or changed) prior to drafting.
@nan_wang Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not sure you'd need to assign responsibilities. Currently, Yahoo allows for giving an additional user commissioner level permissions. That's really all we'd need. We can deal with splitting responsibilities amongst ourselves.
I totally understand you wanted to streamline the onboarding—and boy, did you! It was great!—this would definitely be an "advanced user" feature. Just need the ability to say "This coach is also a commissioner with me."
Hello Product Hunt!
I’m really excited to hunt Sleeperbot with you today. Sleeperbot is a messenger app for sports fans, and participating in Expa Labs. The focus is to make the experience of playing traditional season-long leagues with friends more social and fun, by making chat and smack-talk central to the experience.
If you are playing fantasy football this year, I’d highly encourage you to check out Sleeperbot for your league. They have built a cross platform mobile optimized social experience to better enjoy the season with friends.
Feedback and questions welcomed as the founders + team are here today to answer questions!
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