About BallHype

Why we created BallHype

Too many sports blogs, too little time ... We like to follow sports news as much as the next guy, but with all the blogs out there now, it was getting to be ridiculous trying to take it all in. No way that you could just surreptitiously alt-tab over to your browser and check out the latest stuff in the 3 seconds between emails at work. BallHype makes it easy for all of the sports fans out there who want to keep up but don't have all day to goof off online.

What BallHype does

First, we pull in content from thousands of sports blogs. (Think we're missing one? Tell us and we'll check it out.) If other writers are linking to a story, it gets surfaced to the top of the list as newsworthy. If enough BallHype users hype it up, the story will make it to the home page.

You can also write your own post or submit a story that you think should be required reading. We make it incredibly easy to find good stuff to submit. Just check out Latest Blog Posts or News Articles (all posts written by any blog or site we track filtered by tag).

BallHype Community

We think that being a fan should be fun. You can hang out on BallHype without submitting content or voting — lurk, even — but we get more out of watching the Warriors lose win if there's even one other fan in the room. So Hype it up, add Friends, leave Sticky Notes, make Game Picks, create or join Groups. You should get your friends to join BallHype, if only to have bragging rights over your pick ranking.

Our Oscar acceptance speech

This is the list of sites that have inspired us: Digg, which popularized the model of user-generated news; Techmeme, which made reading the news online manageable through grouped conversations; Facebook, which demonstrated the value of a social networking community.

From a technical perspective, we are also indebted to the wonderful Django framework, Yahoo!'s stellar User Interface Library, and WebFaction's top-notch hosting services. All three are highly recommended.

Who We Are

Jason and Erin came up with the idea for BallHype, started working on it after hours for a couple of months, and realized it was fun enough to do full-time. We're married, have two kids, and we recently quit our jobs to make BallHype a reality. Jason does the technical stuff, and Erin handles the business side.