u/artoftheflip

I built an esports app because I was tired of having 6 tabs open just to know if my team won. A year later I'm still not sure if I solved it or just solved it for me.

I built an esports app because I was tired of having 6 tabs open just to know if my team won. A year later I'm still not sure if I solved it or just solved it for me.

Genuine question for this sub because I need outside perspective.

I follow LoL and CS2 pretty closely. Not in a "I watch every match live" way, more like I need to know who won, what tournaments are running, how teams are trending, which players are actually performing vs. just getting hyped. The kind of stuff where you open Twitter, get three conflicting takes, open Liquipedia, open HLTV or https://bo3.gg/, open another tab, and by the time you've pieced together the full picture you've spent 15 minutes on something that should've taken 30 seconds.

I got frustrated enough that I started building something. Took longer than I want to admit to get it to a working state. It's been out about a year now and I use it daily: scores, tournament schedules, head-to-head records, player stats. Sometimes I'll watch a live match through it too.

Here's where I need honest input: I built it for my own use case, which means I genuinely don't know how universal that frustration is. Like is the fragmentation actually the problem, or do most people just have a system that works and I was the weird one?

So real question - how do you actually keep up with the scene day to day? Not during live matches necessarily, just like... generally staying informed. What's your current setup and what's the most annoying part of it?

u/artoftheflip — 6 days ago