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Product Launch 1.27.21

Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 by user
Product Launch 1.27.21

Hello! We’re the Chalkboard boys (Ted, Will, and Parker) and we’re excited to share that Chalkboard is live in the App Store! A big thank you to our entire team at Tidepool Labs, along with our many investors and partners that have supported us from the beginning. It’s been quite the journey thus far and we’re beyond excited to share what we’ve been building for the past 13 months.

Chalkboard is the first-ever social messaging and scores app for sports bettors. The idea for an integrated sports messaging solution spawned from our frustration with the constant app toggling between our iMessage group chat and our live scores applications (ESPN/Bleacher Report). We wanted something better, so we quit our jobs and went for it. Our Chalkboard v1 brings betting odds, live scores, play-by-play, and props to the group chats where sports fans follow the action.

Will, Parker and I have lived in our sports betting group chat since we were 18 years old. Despite living vastly different lives in distant cities, we were still able to follow the same games, sweat the same overs, and share the same laughs in our betting group chat. We loved our “can’t lose” parlays, blindly tailing Reddit phenoms, and pretending like our gut intuition gave us the upper hand. You name it, we were probably about it. Our Betting Bros group chat lives on — just no longer in iMessage!

Sports betting group chats are not new and they’re not hard to find. They’re engaging, full of humor and absurdity, and core to why we love betting on sports. We built Chalkboard for the many friend groups out there like ours. Check out our app, hop in some group chats, and start sweating your bets with buddies like never before.

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Betting on Ourselves

Posted on August 30, 2020January 11, 2021 by user
Betting on Ourselves

Purdue vs. #1 Virginia. The 2019 NCAA Basketball Elite Eight. With seconds remaining in the final period of regulation, Purdue, poised for an upset, leads 70-67. They are just moments away from punching their ticket to the Final Four, but more importantly for Chalkboard co-founders Ted Mauze, Parker Walls, and Will Coomber, the Boilermakers are clear of the spread by nearly eight points. With so little time left on the clock, it seems impossible that a Purdue +4.5 bet could lose. It has to be winner. Locked. Cash it in.

Final Score (OT): Virginia 80, Purdue 75. A five-point loss for Purdue. Agony for the childhood friends and soon-to-be business partners.

Despite suffering one of the worst ‘bad beats’ of our lives that mid-spring day, the excitement, drama, and suspense we were able to share over the course of the game made the experience worthwhile. With the three of us scattered coast-to-coast in different cities, our sports betting group chat (aptly named “Betting Bros”) was the place where we reacted to the action together in real-time. It was our virtual living room or neighborhood pub. It was how we stayed connected.

The problem, however, was that it could not provide the level of integration with the world of sports that we as fans craved. The online sports betting experience consists of three key ingredients: (1) betting lines, (2) live scores, and (3) messages with friends. For years, that experience was deeply fragmented, jury-rigged together by sports bettors using upwards of five different websites, apps and offshore sportsbooks as part of one daily routine.

The lack of a cohesive, vertically-integrated solution was apparent, and stood as a sizable barrier to maximizing the entertainment value of wagering on sports with friends. Sure, there were handicapping sites that sold you their “pick of the day” for a not-so-modest fee, or online forums where you could talk shop with strangers, but a social platform that allowed sports bettors to connect with the people close to them – their friends – simply didn’t exist. It was after that realization – that we had an opportunity to alter the sports betting landscape – when our journey began.

Fast forward 8 months, and here’s where we’re at – weeks away from product launch, a national intern program with 100+ members at over 70 schools, and a dream to tie the social gambling experience together. In a world of distancing and division, everyone needs a way of connecting. We hope Chalkboard will be a way for friends and fans to keep in touch and feel part of a team once again.

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