They behave a little like the "illuminatis of startups". It's a kind of YCombinator but in a closed ecosystem of co-optation, doing also lobbying towards investors termsheets, public authorities, classic industries etc...
Sure you can do that, you need to stay at least 3 months before asking for it first.
Note that how much you get is barely enough to live (but it fulfills its goal which it to reduce poverty).
(and there's a good chance the program will be scraped at some point, since while it fulfilled its goal with reducing poverty, it didn't have much impact in term of employment and there is still a ceiling effect even so it was supposed to remove them).
(and I'm not sure which part of reducing poverty doesn't make much sense, and as a EU citizen you can profit from any wellfare system within the EU)
For soccer, do you know Jogabo app? Why don't you partner on specific sport community apps intead of making all sports in the same time with Sporty? It will be harder to have a critical mass for all kind of sports and avoiding the chicken and egg problem....
PS : Do you really think everybody can/like play at amateur/occasional level more than 1 or 2 sports?
I haven't heard of Jogabo, but will be sure to check it out. Someone else here also mentioned it.
Yeah, I do think people could enjoy more than one or two sports, especially for the occasional level. E.g. soccer and basketball regularly, and then perhaps something like running and volleyball a few times a month or something.
We have no idea though, will be interesting to see the data after a month.
Thanks for the plug Jonny (I'm one of the founders of Jogabo). We are definitely staying clear of multisport and your comment is one of the main reasons. That said we are not a meetup for sports like Sportsy. It might work for you guys but I definitely think you are going to really focus on the chicken and egg problem. We tried this with our previous startup but we quickly realized we didn't want to venture in that space. Pre-populating your app with existing events will turn you into a "classifieds" type of product and I doubt you want to go there.
The real question is : are the developers or the providers that actually struggle with oauth?
If providers followed well standards, developers would not struggle to implement all these current oauth versions.
Providers suffered from the different versions, and the 2 years it took to come up with a final OAuth 2.0 version.
e.g. they were trying to their best when they copied Facebook's implementation, they thought it would become the standard. However... it didn't
The big providers have been criticized by the Lead Dev of the OAuth 2.0 workgroup though. See this post from Eran Hammer: hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell/
