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Ribbie turns real-time baseball stats into arcade-like, pixel art broadcasts
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- Whether you re a baseball fan or not, there s a lot to love about Ribbie, a vibe-coded website that turns real-time Major League Baseball (MLB) data into 8-bit broadcasts with arcade-style, animated pixel art.
- I love how much data is available to baseball fans [ ] but when I try to follow a game with ESPN Gamecast, I find it kind of boring, Ribbie creator Eric Brownrout told Tech Crunch.
- Still, the idea for Ribbie didn t materialize until Brownrout generated a pixel-art image of Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber to use as his fantasy baseball team s logo.
Whether you re a baseball fan or not, there s a lot to love about Ribbie, a vibe-coded website that turns real-time Major League Baseball (MLB) data into 8-bit broadcasts with arcade-style, animated pixel art.
I love how much data is available to baseball fans [ ] but when I try to follow a game with ESPN Gamecast, I find it kind of boring, Ribbie creator Eric Brownrout told Tech Crunch.
Still, the idea for Ribbie didn t materialize until Brownrout generated a pixel-art image of Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber to use as his fantasy baseball team s logo.
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