Charles Gifford

Founded a sports platform built to connect athletes and fans. Designed and developed the full stack from the ground up. I love constructive criticism and I am always looking for suggestions.

W2W Sports (What-2-Watch) is a daily sports matchup ranking platform I built that tells fans exactly what to watch each night across the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, CFB, CBB, and EPL. Rather than relying on subjective opinions, W2W ranks every game using a proprietary five-component algorithm that scores each matchup on rivalry, marketability, competitiveness, quality of play, and game importance. The platform pulls live data from the ESPN API, updates scores in real time, and surfaces contextual details like odds, broadcast info, and player leaders all in one place. I built the full stack myself including a Python/Flask backend, Supabase database, and a custom frontend, and deployed it on Vercel with automated daily digest emails sent to subscribers each morning. The site features a Records page tracking the highest-scored games of the season, live upset alerts when underdogs take the lead, and a game leaders section pulling live player stats. Building W2W taught me a lot about creating a real product from scratch, covering everything from API integration and database design to UI/UX, email deliverability, and deployment pipelines. It started as a passion project born out of the frustration of flipping between six different sports apps every night just to figure out what was actually worth watching.

Co-founded a peer-to-peer textbook exchange for Boston College students, built at Hack the Heights. Java backend with a JS/HTML/CSS frontend. In active development.