I'm Building a Clone of Sleeper from Scratch - Here's Why

👋 Who I Am

I'm a self-taught developer transitioning into back-end systems. I'm learning full-stack development and documenting the entire journey here.

🧠 What I’m Building

I’m building a fantasy football app inspired by Sleeper — complete with real-time drafts, league creation, lineups, scoring, and eventually a chat system.

🎯 Why I Chose This Project

As much as this is a learning project, it’s also a passion project. Sleeper is continually improving the fantasy sports landscape with their improvements to the fantasy space. Being a user of Sleeper for 6+ years, I look forward to the challenge of cloning this site. Also, working with live-drafts, league creations, lineup settings, scoring modifications, and chat systems will be a huge learning benefit.

🔧 What I’m Using

• React (with Vite)

• Firebase or Node backend (for now)

• Sleeper’s public API

• Elixir

• GitHub for version control

• Blog for weekly updates

🚀 What’s Next

I’ve had a GitHub profile for a while, back when I had dreams of starting my first project unrelated to fantasy football. I have my project set up in my repository.

• Blog setup (✔️)

• Determining my Minimum Viable Product

• User Authentication and League Creation

📁 Follow My Project

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ducharme-dev/sleeper-clone

I’ll be posting weekly updates here. Thanks for following along!