Comment by deltaknight 4 days ago
Thank you! I'm very proud of the track map and lap charts. I mulled over for months about rewriting the app into a native app or website so that I could do proper graphics etc, but then one day earlier this year I suddenly realised I could use Terminal Graphics protocols to achieve inline graphics in the TUI itself, giving me the best of both worlds!
There's already a pretty popular free/opensource website with similar live data (https://f1-dash.com/) which would be an obvious alternative.
I also suspect that the trying to monetize a project like this would not sit well with the FIA, if you had any kind of traction.
I can also suggest https://livetim.in/. I believe this one is one of the nicer web interfaces.
Yeah that's a fair point. Although I've been a bit iffy about the ethics of monetising somebody else's data - and I feel that line would be definitely crossed if I made a direct competitor to F1s own products. So monetisation is very much off the table :)
I'm not personally aware of a method of doing so via a TUI, but I'd be very happy to be corrected. I was under the impression that sending images was the best way to handle non-character based output.
If you wanted to monetize you’ll get way more users from a website or app. This is fantastic , but for techies only.