Go Deep! A Peek Behind the Curtain as SportsCastr Grows into a More Social, More Intuitive, More Fun App. Nick Schupak Follow Mar 29, 2018 · Unlisted

“The app feels like it never ends now,” Dakota Berg, our Lead Designer said. Our Lead iOS Developer Drew McCalla remarked that “now it’s a really immersive social experience.” The latest updates to SportsCastr ensure that what we are building is deep and fun, and makes discovering and getting discovered as seamless and efficient as possible. Needless to say, these updates have everyone in the SportsCastr offices pleased to the max that we are giving our users a platform they’ll love for a long time.

Many of the new updates have been on our roadmap since day one, a fact that only amplifies our current enthusiasm. Among those updates are Monthly Leaderboards. Now SportsCastrs can compete with other SportsCastrs to climb to the top of the monthly leaderboards, all within the app. And, if I may say so myself, these Leaderboards look and feel super slick, some might even say sexy.

Our CEO, Kevin April, has dedicated his adult life to building social communities online. Time and again he has seen how leaderboards and friendly competitions make users fall in love with a platform. As a team dedicated to providing sports fans a wonderful place to be sports fans, the implementation of Monthly Leaderboards into the app means that we can offer our users a deeper, more engaging, more rewarding experience.

“What it takes to win is simple — not easy.” -Marv Levy

The updates also include our New Content Discovery portals. Creating connections between and among people is such an obvious directive for a social platform that it hardly needs to be mentioned. But some platforms do it better than others. The entire team here poured themselves into thoughtfully building tools that will facilitate discovery. No small task. If you follow SportsCastr on Instagram you might have seen a quotation from former Bills’ coach Marv Levy that we shared: “What it takes to win is simple — not easy.” Building discovery features that satisfy community neuro-sociological interfacing tendencies, psycho-emotional-gateway collective connectivity patterns, best social remuneration practices predicated upon applied behavior analysis techniques, and other fancy-sounding hyperboles that equal connection, must be stitched together into an interface that is easy and fun to use. Our brilliant team has managed to create a clean, intuitive and beautiful set of discovery features.