Luis Vega

Building Play Picks, a sports prediction app.
Sharing the process, product decisions, and lessons along the way.

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@JackoutX Play Picks.

Not live yet, but I’m building a social sports prediction app with picks, props, boosts, credits, and rankings.

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@MarrComSt @mobbin This is super useful for app builders. I need this for Play Picks’ prediction flow.

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Just shipped the sports view for my app starting with MLB ⚾️

still a lot to improve, but it’s finally usable.

feedback welcome 👇

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@twostraws @transient This is helpful. Would you usually prefer @Transient for derived UI state, or keep that kind of state outside the SwiftData model entirely?

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@ysnzro @convex For my use case, it just clicked way better than my previous setup.

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Switched to @convex and honestly, the DX is hard to go back from.

Realtime data, backend functions, schema, auth-friendly patterns, and deploys all feel like one coherent system instead of five services taped together.

Convex is a serious upgrade.

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@thelukewhiting @convex Appreciate it 🙌
Didn’t expect it, but the workflow feels way smoother now.

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@andycasen @waynesutton @convex Same here.
The jump in implementation speed was the biggest surprise for me.

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Codex + Convex is making iteration way faster than my previous setup.

Less boilerplate, more building.

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@heyeaslo Nice 👍🏻

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@StewartLynch Happy birthday!

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@FloWritesCode Congrats!

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@demas6Basket Boston

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@FDSportsbook My picks

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If you’re into sports, fantasy games, SwiftUI, Supabase, or building apps from zero, follow along.

I’ll be posting the journey here.

Play Picks is coming soon.

[Luis Vega @luisvega_dev]

I’m building PlayPicks.

A social fantasy pick’em app where you make Over/Under picks, compete on leaderboards, and battle friends using virtual credits.

No real money. Just sports, strategy, and bragging rights.

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Current focus:

Getting the iOS app polished, improving the pick experience, and making the leaderboard/battle loop feel fun enough that people want to come back.