u/FormerMajor3408

Roast My Fantasy Sports Startup: DollarJunk

Roast My Fantasy Sports Startup: DollarJunk

I turned fantasy sports betting games I've been running via spreadsheets for years into a mobile platform: DollarJunk. I currently have two games in beta DiamondJunk (MLB) and GriddyJunk (NFL).

Since it's baseball season, I'll go with the MLB concept: 4–6 friends draft MLB players from one game. When your players do good things (hits, HRs, grand slams), your friends pay you money. When they screw up (strikeouts, errors, groundouts into double plays), you pay them. Every at bat turns into a sweat among friends and the leaderboard tracks everyone's money totals. Here's a 30 second demo vid (if allowed): DiamondJunk Demo

Think fantasy sports meets live social wagering, but not against the house.

Key differences:

  • no sportsbook
  • no odds
  • no house taking bets
  • friends settle directly

Current stage:

  • raised ~$200K
  • MLB/NFL beta in progress

Roast questions:

  1. Do you instantly get it?
  2. Biggest objection?
  3. Why wouldn’t you play?

And, yes, I've considered that putting "Junk" in the name opens me up to all sorts of ridicule if you think the idea sucks.

u/FormerMajor3408 — 1 day ago

Thoughts on new one-game MLB fantasy format

Been running this for friends via spreadsheet for years and am turning it into a mobile app. It's a way to put a little money on a game to make it more interesting.

2–6 friends draft players from a single live game. Hits, Ks, GIDPs, etc. change the standings in real time, so every AB becomes a sweat.

Think Red Sox/Yankees with friends: you draft Abreu, Rice, and Wong (you can draft from both teams). When they make good plays, your friends pay you. When they strike out or ground into double plays, you pay them. The same applies to everyone else’s roster, so every at-bat becomes a live money play.

Example: if hits are worth $1, every time one of your players gets a hit, each opponent pays you $1. I've designed a fair, balanced scoring system with payouts for singles, doubles, triples, HRs, grand slams, walks, Ks and GIDPs.

Looking for thoughts on the format.

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u/FormerMajor3408 — 7 days ago

P2P questions

Building in the sports gaming / P2P space and trying to understand real user behavior before heading too far down the wrong path.

Not pitching anything. Just trying to understand what actually drives behavior from people who understand peer-to-peer sports apps:

  1. What makes one stick vs feel dead on arrival?
  2. Is it purely liquidity / active user count? Or do people actually prefer private, closed-group competition with people they know, like grabbing 3–4 friends and setting something up directly instead of needing strangers on the other side?
  3. Also curious whether the appeal is purely about winning money, or whether part of it is simply making the game itself more interesting. For example: a $5 Nassau during a golf round. Nobody’s life changes over 15 bucks. The point is adding stakes, trash talk, and making the round more fun.
  4. Does sports betting scratch that same itch for you, or is it really just about maximizing EV / payouts?
  5. What are your biggest pain points?
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u/FormerMajor3408 — 9 days ago

How to animate titles?

This is driving me nuts. I'm trying to do simple animations on a title and can't find where to set keyframes. All I want to do is scale the text up/down and move it around the screen. I'm in the inspector and see the settings for size, position, tracking etc., but there's no way to set keyframes. It can't be possible that this $300.00 editing software doesn't allow you to animate titles built in the platform... or is it?

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u/FormerMajor3408 — 12 days ago

Need some help before I lose my mind. I'm trying to keyframe a title glow, but there are no set keyframe buttons in the inspector? I can't figure out why or how to do this?

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u/FormerMajor3408 — 20 days ago