Simon Murphy on building a smartwatch app that eases referee administration

Thanks to Simon Murphy, Founder and CEO of RefLive for doing an awesome job in answering all the questions.

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Here's the highlight question from the Sports Geek Nation AMA with Simon Murphy.

Simon Murphy is the Founder and CEO of RefLive. RefLive is a software platform that allows soccer referees, leagues and associations to digitise match day administration and improve referee retention and performance.

Prior to RefLive, Simon worked in the corporate environment which he eventually left to pursue a Masters degree on Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Through the course of graduate school, he developed the idea of having a simplified, accurate and efficient system to digitise the match day administration process for soccer games.

Simon is a self-confessed obsessive problem solver and a lover of sports, technology and business that led him to build startups.

Connect with Simon Murphy on Twitter @sjmurphy31, LinkedIn and Slack @simon

Find out more about RefLive on Twitter and Facebook

Simon Murphy:

Hi @jase.

With the smartwatch tech, we’re focused on continuing to develop the product and achieve a critical mass with our user base. We’re already working on streaming/broadcasting scores using our API. Our plan is to power all scores for broadcast, live scoring apps and social media channels all non-pro teams using the data from referees. As we scale, we’ll charge for access to our API for real time scores and updates, enabling leagues to commercialise their own data.

• What is the backstory of RefLive?
• How has the platform evolved?
• Do you only cater to football or also for other sports?
• How does the smartwatch app work?

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