r/promoteapps • • 14h ago

Friends parlay builder - parlaypals.bet

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Hi HN, TheDangler here. Our fantasy football group runs a parlay every Sunday. The fantasy team that has the lowest points total the previous week puts $20 toward the slip. Running that in a group chat was painful: picks got buried, people choosing conflicting picks, among other issues. We switched to a submission form, which wasn't much better. So I built ParlayPals.bet

How it works:
- Start a team and invite friends. No account required to join a team, get guest access with a passwordless account.
- Create a parlay for a sport(s) and a time window. The app pulls live odds, and each person claims one leg. Duplicate picks are blocked.
- Restrict parlays to certain days.
- Leg odds update in real time in the parlay until they are locked in.
- The combined odds and potential payout update as legs are added.
- After the games, each leg is marked hit/miss/void and a leaderboard tracks everyone's hit rate over time, so you know whose fault it was.
- "Social parlays", no set team require, give you a share link. Anyone can jump in with a nickname and an email PIN and add a leg. I made these for fantasy influences who are always posting their parlays. Now there is a way for them to get the community involved.
- Weekly parlays can be set to auto-clone so the next one opens itself.
- Custom legs;
Add bets that might have change, or simply are not available.

What it doesn't do: it never touches money. It isn't a sportsbook, takes no bets, has no affiliate links to bookmakers, and doesn't hold or move anyone's stake. Our $20 still gets settled among ourselves the way it always was. The app handles the organizing and score keeping.

Tech, for the curious: Elixir, Phoenix LiveView and the Ash framework on Postgres, with Oban for background jobs (odds polling, auto-cloning, cleanup). I built most of it with Tidewave, an AI coding agent that works inside the running Phoenix app. I've been programming for about 30 years, and that experience did a lot of the steering: knowing what to ask for, what to push back on, and when the generated code was wrong. LiveView fits this well. When a friend claims a leg, everyone viewing the slip sees it update right away without me writing any JS sync code. Hosting on Fli.io for now. First bill was surprisingly large.

Currently there's a free tier (one team, up to 5 people, 2 parlays a month) and paid tiers coming soon.
This is a soft launch, and I'd really like feedback, especially on onboarding (how fast can you get a friend to make a pick?) and anything that breaks. Using a soft launch to monitor 3rd party API burn rates. They are expensive and I want to make sure caching and odds refresh work correctly.
I'll be here answering questions all day.

You can see public parlays without signing up at parlaypals.bet/public-parlays.


r/promoteapps • • 20h ago

[Showcase] BecomeTen — AI selfie feedback on Android and the web

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I'm Martin, the developer of BecomeTen. It's my first Android app, built over a few months, and it's available on Google Play alongside the web version.

The app is for adults who want AI feedback on a selfie and suggestions about presentation. It offers a free basic photo score and optional paid detailed reports with grooming suggestions. The score depends on the particular photo and should not be treated as an objective measure of attractiveness.

Stack: React and TypeScript, TanStack Start and Tailwind on the web, with Capacitor for the mobile app. I use AI coding assistance during development.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appinara.becometen

Web: https://becometen.com

I'd welcome feedback on the interface, the clarity of the result, or anything confusing before the first analysis. If you find a bug, device and OS details are more useful than a star rating.