TITLE: Building a Betting Stats Site With Zero Budget
I'm building a betting stats site, and the biggest challenge isn't the code — it's the data. Free APIs cap requests at 100 per day, which is useless for historical stats. I've been scraping public data from sports forums, cleaning it with Python pandas, and storing it in a local SQLite database.
The site will have live odds comparisons, historical win rates for teams, and a betting bot integration (still in development). It's hosted for free, but this one needs more frequent updates. I'm setting up a cron job to pull new data every 6 hours, but the free tier rate limits are a pain.
If you're building a stats site with no money, skip the paid APIs. Public forums and web scraping get you 80% of the data you need, and the extra 20% isn't worth the cost when you're broke.
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