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Big Mike
Your favorite uncle who knows sports & bets, on iMessage
348 followers
Your favorite uncle who knows sports & bets, on iMessage
348 followers
Big Mike reads MLB, NFL/CFB, and NBA/WNBA all day and texts you the play in iMessage: what to bet, at what number, and which book has it. July Record: 115-68, +21.4 units. Every pick graded in public, no deleted losers. Star ruled out? Trade drops? He texts you what it does to the line. Add him to the group chat and the whole crew hears it at once. Fair warning: he stirs up banter. Link your Sleeper or ESPN league and the start/sit calls are about your roster. Ask Big Mike.
Big Mike
There's never a shortage of sports mania. The blockbuster trades, the season-derailing injuries, or just a late-season underdog catching a 10-game hot streak. There's always something moving....
What's missing is a way to filter out the noise before kickoffs, tip-offs, or the first pitch...
That's why you need to "Ask Big Mike", your tailored, personal sports companion that texts you (iMessage) daily updates on:
The latest on your favorite teams, hot off the press
Real-time injuries and lineup changes before game time
Custom fantasy adjustments for your actual roster
Big Mike's Read, his best picks of the day
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Michael, founder of Big Mike! 🐻
I've been a sports fan my whole life, tracking the latest news across multiple teams, players, and games in a single day. And for years I watched friends tail "experts" whose betting records nobody could actually verify....
That never sat right with me. So I built Big Mike: your favorite sports companion, texting you morning, evening, or night with the latest changes and the plays worth making across the NFL, CFB, MLB, WNBA, and NBA.
Ask him anything, like "hey big mike, how do we feel about the cubs against the pirates today?" and he'll tell you where the value is and why.
He handles the whole day, not just the bets. An overnight trade drops, a starter tweaks a hamstring in warmups, your flex on your fantasy team suddenly questionable. Big Mike catches it and texts you before it matters, so you're never the last one in the group chat to know.
He's in your fantasy league too. Inactive alerts before lineup lock, start/sit off his own projections, and weekly recaps with the roast included. (Football season loading...)
He can be added to any existing group chat. Add him to the crew's iMessage chat and he keeps up with who said what, answers each of you on your own terms, and drops slips right into the conversation. It should make watching with your crew more fun, not more homework.
When he does call a play, he shows his work. Big Mike builds his own price for every game from the ground up, only steps in when the market's price is provably wrong, and grades himself against the closing line, not just wins and losses. One companion in your texts, with a public record he can't go back and edit.
Every pick is graded in public. His record is just the number: 141–89 (61.3%) on his best plays for the day and counting. Every call dated, timed, and kept in the app forever. Losses sitting right next to the wins. Nothing gets deleted.
It's a live board, not a static list. The app lays out the day by game time (live now, locking soon, tonight, tomorrow) with live scores, how the lines have moved, and closing-line value on everything he's already graded.
Who's Big Mike for?
If you follow a few teams, ride a fantasy league, and maybe bet casually with a group chat full of opinions, this one's built for you. Big Mike shows his work, texts you back like he's part of the squad, and keeps you on top of the latest around the league.
Get started
Download Big Mike and your first week (7-Days) is on the house: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/big-mike-sports-betting-picks/id6762222670
Big Mike's Newsletter: "The Daily Dough": https://thedailydoughwithbigmike.substack.com/
Big Mike Site: https://www.bigmike.ai/
P.S - Bring the crew while you're at it, every friend who joins your squad drops the price for everyone....and you could be missing out on 50% off for everyone right now!
Big Mike
Hello Michael, showing the reasoning behind each pick is probably the part I’d pay the most attention to. I’d want to understand why the number looks valuable.
Big Mike
@malani_willa Great question, and here's my personal take on this:
Ever bet a number and found out afterward it moved two points before first pitch? That's the base foundation & question we built our model around (dissecting the player matchups / teams, and matchup value minute by minute, in real time, before kickoff, tip-off, or the first pitch).
Every pick shows two numbers side by side: what the market prices it at, and what our learning model makes of it. "62% to hit · model 67%." That gap is the entire reason the pick exists, and when it isn't there, there's no pick. Big Mike won't ever force a pick that wouldn't follow his learning model (which now compounds all the daily game data throughout the season, so truthfully it should get better with more games / time being played).
You also see the games he passed on and why, in his words: the number didn't clear the bar, or the price got there first, or the model liked the other side.
Under that is the case in plain terms: the announced starters with their real ERA and record, the injury report, and how the line has moved since it opened.
Then the part you can hold us to. Every graded pick carries its closing line value, what we took against where the number actually closed. A pick can win on a bad number and lose on a good one, and CLV is how you tell which happened before the result says anything.
Full graded history is public, nothing deleted - and so far, his total record:
242-155, 61.0% win rate across 397 graded picks.
Really interesting concept! The combination of real-time injury alerts, fantasy advice, and betting picks in iMessage feels super practical. Curious—are WhatsApp or Telegram versions on the roadmap?
Big Mike
@1mirul Thanks Amirul! 🙌 We’re starting with iMessage because we wanted Big Mike to feel native to an existing group chat rather than become another app people need to check. WhatsApp/Telegram are definitely interesting directions as we expand 👀
the injury and lineup alerts could be really useful during those last few minutes before a game starts.
Big Mike
@harri_cuevas You're spot on!
This feature was quite personal to me (when building it out) because there's been multiple years & individual weeks during fantasy football seasons where I forgot to set my lineup with the proper players who were healthy for that week, or just even active players that should be starting with much higher PFF (not keeping the bye week matchup players in your starting lineup...)
The group chat feature is a fun idea. I can already imagine my friends arguing with Big Mike about every pick
Big Mike
@simran_kumar it's one of the best parts! The pure banter as big mike is just part of the friend group now! haha
in a group chat how does he decide when to speak and when to stay out? thats the part id have got wrong. one bot in a busy thread gets muted fast if it answers everything.
What stands out to me is that Big Mike isn't just another betting picks app—it combines news, injuries, fantasy, and betting into one conversational experience. The public record is a nice touch too. Great launch
Big Mike
@monir_ Appreciate it, Monir! That’s exactly what we’re going for — bringing all the fragmented parts of the sports experience into one conversation. And yeah, the public record is important to us; if Big Mike makes picks, he should be accountable for them 😄
Big Mike
@monir_ Thank you! Trying to create an all encompassing experience for avid sport fanatics out there