One of my co-workers (designers) coaches one of his daughter’s soccer teams during the springtime and it keeps him pretty busy. A couple weeks ago when the ‘big rain’ hit central Iowa, he was scrambling to get in contact with the kids’ parents to discuss practice and schedule makeup games.
Today I stumbled upon (yet not using stumble upon) a niche social network called Team Snap. It’s a social network for managing sports teams online.
It comes with your standard ‘dashboard’ with features like
- Manage game and event schedules
- Communicate with your teammates
- See who can attend which games
- Share photos and player info
It’s in open beta for free right now if anyone finds this interesting.
The alternative reason I found the need to publish this post is because I was very curious to see who would pay for this type of niche service. I could see something like this; a central hub to communicate to my players and their parents, very valuable. But under different circumstances, what other niche social networks would you pay for? What wouldn’t you pay for? If you could have any social network built for you on command, what would it be?
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Being out here in Cali you see TONS of people advertising design/coding work on “the next myspace”, “facebook”, etc. It’s really crazy how many different ideas these people come up with to fill these niche markets and will be even more interesting to come back to them in a year to see how they are doing.
Yes, that would be very interesting. There is a difference between talking and doing that is for sure.