Sideline Sprint VS Plain Text Sports

Sideline Sprint

Sideline Sprint is the most fun way to get the sports news you actually care about - think of it as Bleacher Report meets Morning Brew.

Plain Text Sports

Sick of waiting for ESPN to load on your phone?

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2021-11-23

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2023-10-17

Interview with Nathan Baugh of Sideline Sprint

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Sideline Sprint and Plain Text Sports)

Plain Text Sports

Sports

42 42%

Sports

58% 58

iPhone

100 100%

iPhone

0% 0

Football

0 0%

Football

100% 100

Email Newsletters

100 100%

Email Newsletters

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Plain Text Sports seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 16 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Sideline Sprint mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Sideline Sprint yet. Tracking of Sideline Sprint recommendations started around Nov 2021.

Plain Text Sports mentions (16)

Give It the Craigslist Test
If you're into sports also check out https://plaintextsports.com Amazingly well done. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
FOSS Sports scores app?
It isn't FOSS, but plaintextsports.com is extremely minimal and reliable. Source: almost 1 year ago
Text Only News Websites
For sports, ESPN does have http://www.espn.com/nba/lite/scoreboard, but most of the links go back to the normal website. It may have been been more robust in the past, but I don't imagine anyone works on it anymore. It seems like the developer listed in the credits (http://www.espn.com/espn/lite/credits) last worked there in 2002!! So if you're looking for a sports alternative, https://plaintextsports.com (which I... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
A personal gripe with progressive web apps: they cache the website!! A lot of people have requested that I make a progressive web app for https://plaintextsports.com. I've looked into it, but it fundamentally doesn't work, because it caches the home page. My website doesn't load any data via JavaScript; it just relies on the HTML page updating every 30 seconds, so when the home page is cached, the website just... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Yahoo Sports app suddenly only showing "recent career" when viewing a player's profile, what the hell? This is the most mildly infuriating thing ever. What app do you guys use for boxscores and player stats?
For box scores nothing beats https://plaintextsports.com/. Source: about 1 year ago