I turned my childhood habit of hand logging ever MLB home run into an app
Ever since I was about 8 years old I’ve kept a manual ledger of every MLB Homer. It’s obviously silly and unnecessary, but as I’ve gotten older realized that it in a way was a strange baseball mindfulness exercise that grounded my mind.
Last year I turned it into an app where you have to manually tap and “acknowledge” the home run from every box score. Since then I’ve been building and building on it, and basically turned it into a personal replacement for the MLB app.
Realized in the last couple weeks that it was becoming pretty polished and that I’ve spent way too much time working on this for it to just be something me and a couple friends use. So I’m here now asking for you all to check it out and tell me what you think!
It’s a PWA mobile app that can be found at this link: Mentaculus.app
Would love to get some feedback on this, so please if you have any time take a look and comment down below!
Was built mostly on MLB stats api with some additional sourcing from the Chadwick ID database, Fangraphs, Baseball Reference, and with lots of assistance from pybaseball.