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Life & fun · January 4, 2014

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Simple Race Registration (Haskell, PostgreSQL, JS)

Racemetric is a simple athletic race registration and credit card processing app. It's all written in Haskell (Snap, Heist) and JS on top of PostgreSQL. The idea is for race organizers to accept credit card registration payments within minutes instead of having to talk to sales people, get a merchant account, build a custom web page, etc. As a runner and rower, I'd like to have all my race results in one place and one format. Of course I'm looking for customers as well as any feedback you have to give! Feel free to contact me directly at [email protected]. This Show HN grew out of another…

Simple Race Registration (Haskell, PostgreSQL, JS) launched on January 4, 2014 with 15 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Racemetric is a race registration platform that lets athletic event organizers accept credit card payments and manage registrations without dealing with merchant account setup or custom web development. Built with Haskell, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL, it streamlines the registration process for race organizers. The platform also offers runners and rowers a centralized location to view and organize all their race results in a consistent format.

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Racemetric is a simple athletic race registration and credit card processing app. It's all written in Haskell (Snap, Heist) and JS on top of PostgreSQL. The idea is for race organizers to accept credit card registration payments within minutes instead of having to talk to sales people, get a merchant account, build a…

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