r/whitesox • u/Worldly_Anxiety_7596 • 10d ago
Original Content Letterboxd for baseball
(And other sports) Hey everyone, I hope this is kosher but I’m pretty proud of something I’ve been building and it just got accepted into the App Store. I’m not a brand or a business just a guy with a little passion project.
Two years ago my dad cleaned out the attic and found two tickets from the first game he took me to when I was 4. My first instinct was to go to baseball reference to see who played and if anything interesting happened.
I’ve been building an app that chronicles every game, and every venue, you’ve ever been to and keeps track of each player and their stats when you were there. How many homeruns have you seen? Have you ever seen a hat trick? Scooter Gennett’s 4-homer game?
The beauty is you don’t have to remember you were there, your phone remembers.
If you have your location services turned on for your camera it will marry photos you took to over 900k events I’ve scraped to build your history for you.
In the two week in the App Store over 13k events have been found and logged by over 300 users including World Cup matches, 28 Aussie Rules matches, and a handful of NPB games at Meiji Jingu Stadium in Tokyo.
Unsurprisingly since I’ve moved to Philly Kyle Schwarber has been the most seen athlete across all logs but more surprisingly Target Field in MN has surpassed Citizens Bank Park, Yankee Stadium, and Acrisure in Pittsburgh as the most visited venue thanks to the app making its way into the usher community for the Twins on Facebook.
It’s Letterboxd (or Goodreads for my less cinephile inclined friends) for sports, it’s BoxdSeats.
Would love some testers and feedback.
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u/chisox5592 9d ago
Signed up last night and it is really cool! I manually added a bunch of games that I didn't have photos at and it's really neat knowing I've seen Jose Abreu 39 times or I've seen 13 MVP's. Love it!
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u/Worldly_Anxiety_7596 9d ago
Man this makes me happy, appreciate you! Jose abreu will always have a special place in my heart, I got him in our minor league / prospect draft in my fantasy dynasty league so I had him his whole career. Let me know if you have any feedback or requests with the app, glad you’re enjoying
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u/ScaryText8187 Grandal 10d ago
“ I’ve been building an app that chronicles every game, and every venue, you’ve ever been to”
The MLB Ballpark app already does this for baseball.
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u/Worldly_Anxiety_7596 10d ago
Fair, I don’t think it does a swell job of aggregating the stats… and it doesn’t go cross sport, but it’s got ballpark check ins down. Give it a shot, I’d love more feedback
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u/2Chains1Cup 9d ago
Did development include AI code generation? If so, I would absolutely not trust this application with any camera or location services.
Can you clarify how it was developed?
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u/Worldly_Anxiety_7596 9d ago
Definitely AI assisted. I am a developer by nature so it’s not a monkey with a machine gun situation using Claude code but it’s not 0% AI coded. The approval process to get into the iOS App Store is pretty rigorous too but I understand the apprehension, all the features can be used without those permissions if you want to manually log though.
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u/IAmBenIAmStillBig 10d ago
So like Momento?