[shanecleveland]

I'm trying an idea for a small project that I am sure I stole from Hacker News.

I run a football pool at my office, and I was manually creating each week's list of games. So I scratched my own itch and automated this as much as possible (some manual work). I've made the results available on footballpickempool.net. It simply offers weekly pool sheets for the full season, and results will also be posted. I know many people could find this useful, but not necessarily a paying audience for such a simple offering.

The validation idea I'd seen before was to offer a link to a "feature," and see how many people click on it. So I have a "Start a League" link. The page let's them know that this feature is not available yet. And I also have a Google form on the page asking if anyone would pay a small amount for this feature.

Hopefully I see some results as the upcoming season starts.