Hi Hacker News! We're Sweep: guess March Madness results and win Amazon gift cards - all through a bot. We've been working on building this product for the last few months out of WeWork's Area 51 accelerator in NYC.<p>We're working on building sports games for the non-Whale, starting with a FB Messenger chatbot, which you can check out here: <a href="https://www.playsweep.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.playsweep.com</a><p>I worked at FanDuel and quickly discovered that the business is really optimized for the whales (which isn’t a surprise), as are most gaming businesses. This creates a system that’s incentivized to drive satisfaction for a very small % of the user base.<p>Ryan taught himself how to code - and custom built Sweep, no use of any out-of-the-box solutions. It’s been a labor of love.<p>Our first product is completely free and our primary goal is to build a truly fun and engaging experience before sports gaming is legalized in the US.<p>This is the first step in a plan to change the way that people interact and engage with sports.<p>We’re really here because we want feedback and ideas from HN on how to improve. We know there are bot and AI experts here (we’re not currently an AI-based product) and we’d also be really interested in hearing about your experiences and how we could apply some of those concepts to improve Sweep.