Blog
Notes from building + running a public WC API. Honest about what works, what doesn't, what we got wrong.
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2026-05-04 · launch
Why we built a World Cup API
Wikipedia is the de-facto WC database, but it's HTML — not queryable. Sportradar costs $10K/mo. There's a missing tier. Here's the wedge we're going after, and the honest math on whether it's a business.
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2026-05-04 · analysis
92 years of World Cup data: what we found
~2,500 players, 23 tournaments, 6 confederations. Birth-month curves, post-WW2 squad-size growth, the surprising hemisphere split. With code samples you can run against the API.
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2026-05-04 · principles
Why we're up-front about a 5-minute live-data lag
Sub-second sports feeds cost $10K/mo and we don't have them. Pretending we do would be the easiest sale and the fastest path to refunds. Here's our actual ingestion stack and why "best-effort 5-minute lag" is a feature.