A live group tracker bringing your bets and friends together to watch sports.
Modern sports betting apps isolate fans by locking the tension into private, individual screens. The Banker is a full-stack web application designed to bring the sweat back to the group. By combining frictionless OCR betslip entry with a live-updating, account-free shared dashboard, it transforms a solitary habit into a collective, real-time social experience.
Heavy Bettor
"Sports betting is definitely more of a young person thing"
Teo Benedick
24, Geneva, Switzerland
Non Bettor
"All they talk about is money, I just want to know what they did"
Nathaniel Mekkis
24, San Diego, California
Casual Bettor
"Betting does bring more emotion to the game"
Guilherme Correa
22, Lisbon, Portugal
Goods Bettor
"It makes me feel more nervous, more emotional."
Paul Kim
27, Seoul, South Korea
Casual Bettor
"If I'm going to watch it, I'll put a bet down with my roommates"
Heath Nager
21, Denver, Colorado
- Some fans struggle to commit to watching without something at stake
- Disengaged crowds kill the atmosphere for everyone else
- Non-bettors feel excluded when the conversation shifts to odds
- Nothing at stake removes a big emotional engagement layer
- Bettors juggling multiple apps creates noise and distraction
- Modern sports can lack the constant tension spikes that esports has
Betting creates emotion, but keeps it private
The moment money goes on a game it goes private
What that looks like
- Everyone locked into their own sportsbook app
- Tracking bets their friends can’t see
- Constantly asking “what do you need?”
- Group chat full of noise and screenshots
- Non-bettors cut out of the conversation entirely
Sports are public and social. Why does betting make it private?
“All they talked about was their lines and their parlays. I just wanted a way to talk about the game.”
Nathaniel · 24 · Non-Bettor
“Being able to check everyone’s different bets throughout the game, that could be quite neat.”
Heath · 21 · Casual Bettor
The market is built for the bettor.
Nobody has built it for the room.
Every competitor is bettor-only, account-required, single sportsbook.
Not one of them is built for the group watching together.
How might we make betting social again?
A live room where your whole group watches every bet hit or miss together.
The main user flow
Step 01
Create a Room
One tap. You get a 6-digit code. That’s your session.
Step 02
Share the Code
Drop it in the group chat. Everyone joins. No account needed.
Step 03
Watch it Live
Every leg updates as the match plays. Goals, stats, the settle — all shared.
Lessons Learned
- Building something this complex end to end is within reach
- Users are lazier than you expect
- This product relies on the game — if the game is boring, the product dies
Next Steps
- Get the OCR to absolute confidence
- Add a chat to the room
- Organise a bigger scale test to validate with built-in chat
- Find the best audience — maybe a tipster’s private room where followers see their bets live
