Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by stev3 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:26PM (#23181493)

Since I can't play basketball with people, I built an app that helps me play basketball with myself. It uses object detection to identify me shooting and the ball going in or not and then creates a heatmap in real-time. Sort of like fitbit for basketball. I had to do some labelling myself, but it didn't take too long and it's working! I try to beat my shooting percentage from the day before. I put it on the Apple App Store to start and I'll build an android version next.

You can see a live demo here: https://www.myshotcount.com/

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by dylanblanchard on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:32PM (#23188568)

This is so cool! It's been a while since I'd looked at Homecourt[0], but it looks like they've expanded quite beyond the shot tracking. Cool that you're competing against Steve Nash hah

This is super neat though, looking forward to following along. Would love to sign up for a newsletter if yas had one.

[0] https://www.homecourt.ai

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by stev3 on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:14PM (#23197497)

Thanks, man. I built it, showed some friends, and then learned there was a competitor, but that's cool. The world needs more than one and for some reason they don't offer anything to the billions of android users.

Based on my conversations with users, shot tracking is most used feature by far. There are a bunch of other services that help with dribbling [0] and drills [1].

[0] https://dribbleup.com/ [1] https://www.94feetofgame.com/app <- also a Steve Nash project

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by bmitch2112 on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:28PM (#23197675)

Very cool! You did quite well in the video too, was that one take or multiple? :)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by stev3 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:34PM (#23236859)

It's a continuous take, but probably a couple were tossed before that one ;-)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by nkristoffersen on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:56PM (#23183795)

super cool! I love the markers on the court. Super clear.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by stev3 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:13PM (#23186212)

Thanks! Trying to make it as simple as possible.

[ Parent | on HN ]