Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories?

Re:Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories? by ashbrahma on Friday September 23, 2011 @12:08PM (#3030489)

Do you pay yahoo for access to their Fantasy/Sports API?

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Re:Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories? by xpose2000 on Friday September 23, 2011 @12:37PM (#3030594)

Yahoo Sports has a free API. They currently do not have a commercial license option. I use it myself and I hope other fantasy sites follow their lead.

Learn more here: http://developer.yahoo.com/fantasysports/

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Re:Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories? by euroclydon on Friday September 23, 2011 @03:12PM (#3031177)

The API seems geared toward getting data for an existing Yahoo fantasy league/team/players, but can you get arbitrary sports game stats and player statuses out of it, or is it only useful if your application's users are Yahoo Fantasy Sports users?

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Re:Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories? by xpose2000 on Friday September 23, 2011 @03:25PM (#3031232)

It's only for Yahoo Fantasy Sports users. It does not have sports data in general. You'd have to find another stat provider like STATS Inc for something like that.

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Re:Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories? by xpose2000 on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:13PM (#3030975)

I'm not sure there is a way around it. You can try asking in their forums, Sean is the go-to guy behind the API and is very helpful.

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Re:Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories? by ashbrahma on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:09PM (#3030954)

Thanks. I think they have some rate limits in place. How do you get around it if you have a lot of users?

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