When I’m working or listening to podcasts I still like to have something playing on a screen somewhere, whether it be a TV or an iPad. Sometimes it’s reruns of Seinfeld, Saved by the Bell, or other shows and movies and sometimes it’s sports. It used to be fairly easy, at least on the Apple TV, to see what sports were currently airing. Since they added F1 to the Apple TV app, they no longer give Sports its own tab. You can still get to Sports, it’s just slower with more clicks. Also, the interface to browse the current sports wasn’t the best either.
I’ve been searching for a site that would display the sports airing that day since Apple made the changes to the Apple TV app. Most of the options I found were either full of ads, looked bad, and had stale data. Enter AI.
Late last week I decided to give Claude a spin. I downloaded the app and created an account. That was the extent of my AI usage up to this point, besides general knowledge search questions. I launched Claude and asked it to create a site that displayed all sports airing that day that allowed me to filter by Sport. Less than 15 minutes later I had registered a domain and a live website.
Over the course of the next couple of days I refined the site, adding more features, styling changes and bug fixes. The result is Sports on TV Now.
I’m quite happy with how all this turned out. It’s using TheSportsDB’s API for all the data. I am paying for the premium version of the API to allow for the ability to pull more data and more requests per minute.
The real interesting thing about this project is how it got me back in development. I haven’t done development work in years. When I used to do a lot of WordPress work, I did it in a simple text editor and FTP (later Panic’s Coda and Nova apps). I’ve never used Visual Studio Code or Github (besides browsing repos). Github wasn’t a thing people were using back then. Until this weekend, I didn’t even know how to use Github. Now I have 6 repos for my different sites and have a pretty decent workflow setup in Visual Studio Code. Without AI, I don’t think I would have gotten back into this and I definitely would still be trying to scratch that sports schedule itch.