HiaFan
HiaFan is a sports social media platform where fans make predictions in plain language and earn a Ball Knowledge (BK) Score as a cumulative measure of their sports intelligence. The app includes live scores, user posts, game-specific discussion zones, and an AI Referee that can rule on community discussions. HiaFan covers major leagues across basketball, soccer, football, and baseball, with no wagering or gambling of any kind.
- Sports Technology
- Social Networking
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Traditional sports apps reduce fan engagement to passive score-watching or force users into rigid prediction formats like yes/no picks or predefined options. This fails to capture genuine sports knowledge and reasoning, and many prediction platforms are tied to gambling, which excludes fans who want to compete on knowledge alone.
Solution
HiaFan is a sports social media platform where fans make predictions in plain language—calling games the way they actually see them, with their own reasoning—and earn a Ball Knowledge (BK) Score as a cumulative measure of their sports intelligence. The app includes live scores, Hoots (user posts), comments, votes, team following, and game-specific discussion zones called The Zone. An AI Referee can be invoked on discussions to produce a ruling, and prediction text is automatically analyzed to identify what was predicted, price its difficulty against betting-market odds, and later determine whether it came true. HiaFan is built entirely around knowledge, reputation, and bragging rights, with no wagering or gambling of any kind.
Target Audience
Primary users are sports fans who want to test and demonstrate their sports knowledge through predictions and community discussion without gambling. The app targets fans of major U.S. and international leagues across basketball, soccer, football, and baseball.
Features
- Plain-language predictions: users write their own calls and reasoning rather than choosing from predefined options
- Ball Knowledge (BK) Score: a cumulative, permanent record of sports intelligence built across every game engaged with
- AI-powered prediction resolution: text is analyzed automatically to identify predictions, price difficulty against betting-market odds, and determine outcomes
- AI Referee: automated rulings on community discussions when invoked
- Hoots, comments, votes, and reactions for social interaction among fans
- The Zone: game-specific discussion zones for focused conversation
- Team and league following with push notifications
- Covers Basketball (NBA, WNBA, CBB, WBB), Soccer (Premier League, Champions League, La Liga, Bundesliga, MLS), Football (NFL, CFB), and Baseball (MLB)
- Daily games with automated question generation and fact-checking
- No wagering, no money on the line, and no gambling of any kind