The A.I. Thread

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by indes

Finally got it solved with a few more days of work and an AI change. I moved from Base44 to Cursor and managed to get past the biggest roadblock I had. Once the base functionality was figured out the rest came together pretty quickly. For basic design and structure it's pretty good at making my vision come to life with a few prompts.

So for a guy with no coding experience I was able to create a pretty cool webapp. +1 AI there.

https://sportcation.net/

Very cool! How long have you been working on it?

[indes]

Originally Posted by edslunch

Very cool! How long have you been working on it?

It started as just a concept about 6 months ago and then I spent a bit of time over 3 months doing research on everything since I had 0 knowledge of websites, tech startups, APIs or anything like that. Then I made a react app prototype in Gemini as a proof of concept which took some moderate time over a few months. After that I actually tried to get several people/companies to build my site but they either couldn't grasp my vision or said it was too complicated. I actually used a lot of AI's to figure out where to go next to get myself from a locally made react app to a node.js app. Once I had a bit of a roadmap I spent a couple months evenings and weekends trying to get it up and running.

I thought it would be quicker but even once I had the data filtering and searches working I had to figure out how to make the UI user friendly, get it to look good on mobile, create algorithms to accurately estimate ticket and flight prices (this was actually pretty cool, but challenging). I'm still working on the pSEO, blogs and creating a social media presence. Bugs like not having Halifax in the flight list!

TLDR: 6 months from idea to launch

[indes]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Interesting idea. Do you have a multi-city search in your gameplan? Often people like to follow a team, say to NJ NY and NYI.

In the CFL a lot of fans try to hit Toronto and Hamilton, sometimes Ottawa/Montreal over back to back weekends. Even when it's totally different teams playing.

I don't have a multi-city search but the SportCations do filter by date, that's an interesting idea though, maybe have zones or something that you could filter by? Thanks for the feedback!

I do have a search option to follow a single team though! It's the single game search to follow just the team, or the team search to find SportCations that your team has.

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by indes

It started as just a concept about 6 months ago and then I spent a bit of time over 3 months doing research on everything since I had 0 knowledge of websites, tech startups, APIs or anything like that. Then I made a react app prototype in Gemini as a proof of concept which took some moderate time over a few months. After that I actually tried to get several people/companies to build my site but they either couldn't grasp my vision or said it was too complicated. I actually used a lot of AI's to figure out where to go next to get myself from a locally made react app to a node.js app. Once I had a bit of a roadmap I spent a couple months evenings and weekends trying to get it up and running.

I thought it would be quicker but even once I had the data filtering and searches working I had to figure out how to make the UI user friendly, get it to look good on mobile, create algorithms to accurately estimate ticket and flight prices (this was actually pretty cool, but challenging). I'm still working on the pSEO, blogs and creating a social media presence. Bugs like not having Halifax in the flight list!

TLDR: 6 months from idea to launch

It would be cool to expand this eventually to include other entertainment and cultural events for people who want to maximize their itineraries.

[indes]

Originally Posted by edslunch

It would be cool to expand this eventually to include other entertainment and cultural events for people who want to maximize their itineraries.

Love it. I think it's somewhere I would like to go if this ever takes off. I think there's a lot of potential to tie in other events and advertising for local restaurants/bars and stuff. I'm trying to stay grounded but I'm really excited for this to gain some traction - from what I've read this is the hardest part, the 6-12 months where I wait to start ranking on google and coming up in searches.

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by indes

Love it. I think it's somewhere I would like to go if this ever takes off. I think there's a lot of potential to tie in other events and advertising for local restaurants/bars and stuff. I'm trying to stay grounded but I'm really excited for this to gain some traction - from what I've read this is the hardest part, the 6-12 months where I wait to start ranking on google and coming up in searches.

You’ve done the hard part and built a framework that can easily extend to other segments. Good luck!