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I went through a little bit of the "lows" in the last couple days on my side project, http://nbaschedules.appspot.com. Yesterday, I sat down and made a few key decisions such as:

- Cutting planned features/Prioritized

- Stay simple

- This is a side project, a side project, a side project

- [important] Making sure it can run with a very minimum time and money forever so it won't just die (hence using GAE, no domain yet).

- Allocate no more than 1-2 hours a day



Hey, this is a cool project, keep it up. Finding gametimes on the NBA website is a PITA. My only suggestion would be to allow filtering by team (or geolocate based on IP and filter for me automatically).

I'm assuming most visitors are interested in their hometeam's games rather than the league at large.


What do you struggle with on NBA.com? It's literally one click to get to the day's scores/schedules and it allows filtering by date or team.

example: http://www.nba.com/gameline/20121031/


Thank you very much!

I don't know who the visitors are but I'd like to fix the actual "game-time" (normalized to UTC, then convert to visitor's local time) and to add TV schedules as well (USA, Canada, Intl) first before doing other things.

For now, people can bookmark the URL to their favourite team, e.g.: http://nbaschedules.appspot.com/heat.html



Thanks a lot Thomas. I didn't know about this!

Having said that, my app is 100% static pages :) (may change in the future).

There's a JS library out there that can help me to achieve time normalization.


Here's a simple fix:

You currently have the games as <home team> vs <away team>, it would be clearer if it were <away team> at <home team> (with the time zone indicated, preferably eastern time).


Thanks for the input!

My plan was to UTC-ed all the time and present them to the visitor based on their local timezone (so no need to convert PST, EST, or even worse for international visitors).

But the concept of <away team> at <home team> is definitely better! Thanks a lot!


Done! (minus timezone, will be part of another bigger feature).




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