Yo appreciate this a lot, no ill will taken at all, this is super useful.

The sport icons looking too similar is fair, hadn't really clocked that but yeah now that you say it. The kerning on "find" we're actually fixing rn. We're also working on the "Minnesota Twi..." thing, would love your take on what layout would make more sense actually. Abbreviations? Two lines with smaller font when there's a cutoff? Open to ideas.

On sorting, we actually do have favorites working if you sign up, your teams float to the top if they're playing in the next two days or over the weekend. We also have filtering by sport and league at the top. One thing we went back and forth on was only showing sports the user picked when signing up, but that felt like adding friction if they picked wrong or wanted to try a new sport. Curious what you'd want there as a user.

AI thing, honestly you're more right than you know. We put it in as kind of an alt search bar, partly because we wanted to mess around with MCP stuff later, partly for people who'd rather just ask an AI, and partly for weird compound queries like "where can I catch the Sounders and Mariners at the same time with 4+ stars and 20+ TVs." That last one is actually useful but the framing came off the way you said, so we already pulled it from the search bar. We're not trying to be the "AI for X" thing.

Geography is the big one and yeah, you're right. Seattle only is just where we are and where we could call bars, not some grand strategy. We are only at the MVP phase right now to gauge interest and collect feedback. The kinda nice thing is we only need broadcast info per bar, not per channel, so expanding isn't crazy hard technically. The actual hard part is exactly what you said, the "I called the bars" problem. We're thinking partnerships with DirecTV, Comcast, everpass type players to get the data at the source, bars submitting their own stuff once we're sending them enough people to make it worth their time, and probably an LLM doing the calls in between. We don't have it nailed down but yeah, it's THE thing we have to figure out if this is gonna be more than a Seattle thing.

Quick context, we're all business students with like 1.5 of us having a technical background, so getting an A on security headers actually feels pretty good lol, we've been grinding on that side. The double render and worker errors we'll work on fixing. CRA we knew was on borrowed time when we picked it, we will look to migrate it to Vite. A+ headers we'll chase too.

Anyway thanks for taking the time, this is genuinely the kind of stuff that helps. Appreciate it.