Comment by deltaknight
5 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!
If you wanted to monetize you’ll get way more users from a website or app. This is fantastic , but for techies only.
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 :)
Is there any reason you couldn’t render the pixels to the screen as opposed to a constantly updated image (which as the docs note is terminal choice limiting)
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.