Show HN: World Cup 2026 free family and friends prediction platform

Posted by belev on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:39PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://wc-2026-predictions.vercel.app

Hi all,

I was testing Cursor for the past week and a half and I decided to build a quick platform for my family and friends to make a little prediction tournament for the World Cup 2026.

My goal was to have the easiest possible setup for elderly relatives, no sign ups, mobile friendly, $0 budget for hosting platform.

I doubt this will get popular but in the odd case of happening just letting you know I'm using free vercel and neon db tiers :D In case you wonder why is slow and/or down.

I'd love to get some feedback on the scoring system, do you think I can improve it and make it more competitive?

Tech stack & development: - vibe coded with mainly Opus 4.7 with Cursor - Neon free tier 0.5 GB db - vercel free tier - github actions - for games - I've loaded the whole tournament and found API - football-data.org cron for pulling the results (free API key for 10 request per min) enough for what we have here

- React - Next.js - translated to 4 languages English/German/Spanish and of course Bulgarian.

Thanks, Anton

Re:Show HN: World Cup 2026 free family and friends predictio... by kspetkov79 on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @01:48PM (#48283160)

Nice side project. The thing I’d be slightly nervous about is the football-data cron. On small apps like this, it’s often not the app crashing, it’s some scheduled job quietly stopping and the data going stale. How would you notice that here? GitHub Actions notifications, logs, or just manual checking?

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