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FANPAS.COM
BTC Sports Betting
I been working on fanpas.com for a bit more than 2 years. Is been a side project until today, what started as a simple idea to create a calendar for local futbol tournaments, so that anyone can check the times and results of the games, turned into a more complete web app. That includes teams, players, stats and a lot more information.
This is a mobile first project, its design was started with mobile phones on mind. Its been optimized to be very fast even under the worst internet connections. Its build on HTML5, and we been testing PhoneGap ports for all the major mobile platforms.
You can access a web version at:
http://www.fanpas.comit will remain on that site if it detects you are on a mobile phone, if you are into a regular browser it will redirect you to:
http://pc.fanpas.comMobile developers will understand that redirects are very expensive time wise, so thats what we redirect people on PC browsers instead of the other way around.
I been into programing for 15 years now, and while most of the design work was done by me, I have outsource some programing using Odesk. Now the programmer is a good friend and we work everyday to improve the web app.
About crypto currencies I started to follow them mid 2012, but been busy with fanpas, I only got actively started a few months ago. I started mining a bit, and have done very small investments using bitfunder. I already have stable source of income from my own business in the travel industry, so I'm doing this for fun.
So now is time to mix these 2 hobbies. I want to bring BTC bettings to Fanpas. And for this to happen I want to include in our team a programmer with experience in the BTC frameworks and also find a bitcointalk.org senior member to act as a mentor.
Is important to notice that fanpas was created for South America, where spanish is spoken and Futbol is king. It turns out that this development markets go great with BTC. Countries like Argentina, Venezuela and Bolivia are fast adopting crypto currencies. We also have included many international tournaments like the Champions League, and of course the World Cup. Adding a new tournament takes minutes.
We knew it will be important to port the web app to other languages. For this we used CodeIgniter, and adding a new language is as easy as setting up a dictionary file. As you can see we have english, spanish, portuguese and bangla translations. Also we had in mind the possibility to add new sports, and this is part of our design.
We have a beautiful backend, that makes it really easy and simple to add tournaments, dates, games, players, etc.. and keep all our data updated. For this I have hired 3 people in India that work daily on updating our DB. Some times they lag a bit on entering data and make mistakes, but they are getting better all the time, so it should not be a problem in a few months.
My new objective is to add betting to the web app and do a small IPO. We want to have betting ready prior the 2014 Brazil World Cup.
To find the mentor and programmer. I will offer a part of the company in exchange for their help. Hopefully within a few months we can have the betting system ready and go public.
Before I posted something about an actual IPO, I wanted to write this info to get some feedback and ideas from possible investors.
Thank you for your time.
Esteban
