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When Doejo client BuzzDraft launched a year ago the online sports fantasy site aimed to offer the most modern user experience platform. Fantasy sports should be exciting and have an engaging attitude not look and feel like an Excel spreadsheet, said its founders, who come from sports betting and entrepreneurial backgrounds.
What started out as professional football and baseball fantasy games, now adds basketball, hockey and golf to its rosters for all proficiency levels to play—with 8,500 total user accounts activated. We caught up with BuzzDraft CEO Bryan Pellegrino to talk new features, memorable milestones and startup lessons learned.
Doejo: It’s been just over a year since launching BuzzDraft, what new features will users find on the site?
Bryan: We've added tons of new features throughout the year to make life easier for users. The largest and most important have been the ability to import your lineup from other games, the user-console on the home page, and our new in-game lobby. Users can also look forward to mass-entry as well as a few more cool features coming very soon.
What features are you most proud of on BuzzDraft?
I think it's not really a feature that I'm most proud of but more the community itself. We have a really great group of players on the site in chat every day helping new users, talking strategy and just hanging out and I think it's something that's very hard to find elsewhere. We have a great and supportive player community that not only helps us with our support and easing in new users, but also helps offer us valuable feedback on direction constantly.
As CEO, what's something you've learned in the past year that you wish you knew from the beginning?
I wish I had known how much I would regret not keeping up with my CS background, there is nothing more frustrating than seeing an issue or a new feature you want to develop and seeing it put in a line of prioritized items and waiting for the dev to be done. I'm someone who spends a huge amount of time with my work and I wish I was able to go out and implement some of this stuff myself a bit more often. It's something I'm working to get back into every day.
Read more from BuzzDraft's Bryan Pellegrino here, on Doejo's blog.
