[streptomycin]

https://basketball-gm.com/ is a basketball management sim video game (sorta like football manager), and it makes more than that from ads.

[deepaksurti]

This is brilliant. May I ask you a question? I assume you are not using real team names or real players. If you are using real names, how do you handle the licenses? Sorry, not a baseball enthusiast hence could not figure if your team / player names are real.

[streptomycin]

Yeah, that's the reason I don't use real players :)

A lot of similar games simply ignore the law and pray they don't get sued (or that the publicity from a lawsuit would actually be good).

But I do have support for uploading custom leagues, and people have made them with various real leagues like the NBA https://github.com/alexnoob/BasketBall-GM-Rosters/releases/t... and the Philippine Basketball Association http://www.mediafire.com/file/1e8cq2l3rrndln5/PBA-GM-2016.tx...

[CoryG89]

This seems like a good idea. Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names.

I had previously mulled over trying to make a fantasy sports site using bitcoin, but since I am based in the US, the gambling laws are too prohibitive, even just using bitcoin.

[noir_lord]

> Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names.

Probably not but I think they might be able to send a DMCA notice.

[mattbroekhuis]

Very cool. Where do you get your stats from?

[streptomycin]

Thanks! I wrote a basketball simulation engine, it does a play-by-play sim of every game.

[truth_sentinell]

In what language?

[calahad]

javascript

[streptomycin]

Specifically: https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm

[j8m88]

Cool little game you got there. Do you have this on iOS or Android?

[streptomycin]

No, but it runs in Firefox and Chrome on Android, and it'll run on iOS too once Apple releases a good version of Safari or allows competent browser devs to publish better browsers :)

[taphangum]

Where did you get the initial traffic?

[streptomycin]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1j1e6q/i_made_a_single... got some initial traffic, and then it grew steadily for a while (although it seems to have reached a plateau this year).

[taphangum]

Ah this is cool. I'm thinking about making a passive income sim game for the web. Didn't think of it as a monetizable thing but your experience is changing my mind.