Tournaments: Making Life Easier with Facebook

Why tournaments?

1. Hard to Create

2. Difficult to share

Help these people

What we missed

Lightweight interaction

Create for someone , not everyone

http://apps.facebook.com/ mytournaments

Lessons Learned System penalizes more complicated apps Lightweight interactions: a must have If seeking users, start simple and viral Product management with simultaneous coding Coding gets you chicks

System penalizes more complicated apps

Lightweight interactions: a must have

If seeking users, start simple and viral

Product management with simultaneous coding

Coding gets you chicks

The Future Other types of tournaments API Fans and Bets March Madness Clones

Other types of tournaments

API

Fans and Bets

March Madness

Clones

What’s the problem? Annoying to create Paper, markers, rulers, straight lines… Difficult to share “ here’s a link – you have to register” Not Dynamic “ shoot, Ben dropped, I gotta redraw it” Hard to communicate “ I beat you at beirut!” “ Who am I playing next?” N^2 complexity with more users

Annoying to create

Paper, markers, rulers, straight lines…

Difficult to share

“ here’s a link – you have to register”

Not Dynamic

“ shoot, Ben dropped, I gotta redraw it”

Hard to communicate

“ I beat you at beirut!”

“ Who am I playing next?”

N^2 complexity with more users