Faceoff
A terminal UI for following NHL games
Details
- External ID
- 47826104
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Faceoff
- Website domain
- vincentgregoire.com
- Launched
- April 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 136
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.922879177377892
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Faceoff is a TUI app written in Python to follow live NHL games and browse standings and stats. I got the inspiration from Playball, a similar TUI app for MLB games that was featured on HN.The app was mostly vibe-coded with Claude Code, but not one-shot. I added features and fixed bugs by using it, as I spent way too much time in the terminal over the last few months.Try it out with `uvx faceoff` (requires uv).
Enrichment
- Theme
- sports and gaming companion tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal ui for following nhl games
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author already vibe-coded this using Claude Code and Textual by wrapping publicly available, unauthenticated NHL stats APIs.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MySQL and relational databases for sports data, Teletext services for terminal information, Broadcast partner apps with ads
Concerns raised: NHL API latency 30s-2 minutes behind live play, Undocumented NHL API reliability and endpoint stability, Auto-refresh inconsistency issues, Can only debug during live games, Sports leagues don't have official APIs
Feature requests: Consistent auto-refresh functionality, Navigate from game detail page to team/roster pages, Fix faceoff percentage calculation accuracy
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