A minimal, ad-free World Cup web-app for fixtures and live scores
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Hi all! With the World Cup around the corner, and being a football fan, I went looking for apps that would give me a detailed overview of groups, matches categorized by group or team, a daily timeline of when games happen that day (especially useful for us in Europe, since some games run pretty late), and a way to follow my favorite team or teams. The problem I ran into was that most apps out there are pretty bloated — like, really bloated. The ones that weren't either didn't focus on the World Cup specifically, or were ridden with betting ads and ads in general. So I built a very minimal ad-free (mostly tailored for myself) World Cup web app for fixtures and live scores. The fixture data comes from the openfootball/worldcup.json project - https://github.com/openfootball/worldcup.json. I hope you find it helpful, would love any feedback.
HN · launched Jun 8, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 58%) · 0 views
Niche: sports scores and tracking apps · 85 launches, 19 in the last 7 days ▲ +58% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A tournament schedule viewer and live score tracker is a typical frontend PWA consuming static match data or third-party sports APIs with local timezone conversions.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude (custom-built similar tool)
Feature requests: Notifications for upcoming matches, Notifications for favorite team schedules
Competitors
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Launched 162 days after the earliest competitor.
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