A billion dollar industry often attracts startups and entrepreneurs along with investors. In order to reduce the time to market the product, startups fall into the trap of hiring generic IT companies or freelance developers for fantasy sports product development. However, soon factors such as competence, scalability or time to launch kick in and they end up creating a flop product. Here’s why you shouldn’t make this mistake.

# 1 Experts create scalable products

For startups, value for money is crucial. However, when you look at the overall value for fantasy sports application development, you will realize that scalability makes or breaks your business. A generic application development company or a freelance developer may not have the in-depth understanding of how fantasy sports apps work. As a result, when you are served poor quality, you may not be able to gauge the overall loss instantly. It’s only when more users start to use your app and you have more data to handle, than you realize the importance of scalability. Experts, on the other hand, will talk about scalability on the first day of the project commencement. This gives you an idea of the measure of scalability you need for your application for now and for future.

# 2 Onboarding experience matters

Fantasy sports users are some of the most demanding customers in the world. After videos, it’s gaming that engages the world’s Internet users most. Therefore, you must not ignore the onboarding process and overall user experience that the users get upon logging on to your application for the first time. Apart from a great feel and design of the product, it’s important that your UX and UI are in perfect sync with the theme and type of users. Fantasy sports application development experts, due to their varied portfolio, are able to apprise you with these considerations initially. Together you can plan and short-list the design and UI wireframes for a giving your customers a great first impression. Users spend 42 minutes a day on a fantasy sports app on an average, so make it count.

# 3 Experts know handling of live data feeds

Another advantage of working with experts for fantasy sports game development is the ability of the experts in helping you handle live data feeds. When you launch a fantasy sports product, your data will only multiply at various levels. On top of that, you need to provide live data feeds of the progressing fantasy games along with the data of the actual leagues, championships or cups. This kind of data compartments need a solid backend and a great scheme of data feeds. Since experts have handled fantasy sports products earlier, they are able to create a dependable scheme for data handling and live feeds, unlike generic app development companies or freelance developers.

# 4 Payment gateways need partnerships and trust

If you have paid games as well in your fantasy sports website or mobile app, it’s crucial who you are partnering with in terms of payment gateways. For those who have not dealt with payment gateways before, it’s best if they hire experts because the latter have trusted relationships and partnerships with several payment gateways. You can leverage from the experts’ partnerships and can create a trustworthy platform where payments are smooth and security cannot be breached.

# 5 Experts help you build winning products, not just apps

Startups who are wondering how to start a fantasy sports business can benefit from the industry experience of the experts. Companies with a wide variety of experience in building fantasy sports websites and app in various sports and various gameplays, are able to create complete products. They have the right information and depth of experience to consult what works and what doesn’t for a winning fantasy sports app.

Leverage from Vinfotech’s expertise

Vinfotech is a world leader in creating fantasy sports website and mobile applications for almost ten years now. Our clients have been able to leverage from our expertise as well as partnerships with organizations such as Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association (FSGA) or collaborations with organizations such as Sport Radar, Stats, OPTA, Fantasy Data, PayUMoney etc. Our clients are able to enjoy discounts on some of these services because of our partnership and industry relationships. We have delivered more than 200 fantasy sports websites and mobile apps for customers around the world.

We also have a history of working for brands and delivering them the solution which handles millions of customers. For instance, we have built solutions for well-known brands on top of their existing applications and have helped them multiply their fans. We have built Fantasy Cash, a multisport daily fantasy sports platform and Mobile Premier League, whose brand ambassador is Indian Cricket Team Captain Virat Kohli. We have done fantasy sports app development Boltt Fantasy whose brand ambassador is Indian Cricket Team player Ravindra Jadeja. Faboom fantasy is also a recent fantasy sports website delivered by Vinfotech.

If you are a startup looking to build a fantasy sports solution for the current market, give us a call.