I Built an App to Replace Our F1 Prediction Spreadsheet. Here's What I Learned.

I Built an App to Replace Our F1 Prediction Spreadsheet. Here's What I Learned. Every F1 fan group has one. The shared Excel where someone enters everyone's qualifying and race predictions, scores them manually after each session, and maintains the cumulative standings all season. In our group, predictions came in through an email chain. One person would enter all the picks and results into a spreadsheet. It worked for a while. Then life got in the way, as it does, and the scoring stopped. We kept predicting for the fun of it, but nobody was tracking who was right anymore. The competitive part just faded out. That bugged me. So in January 2026, I started building Podium Prophets to automate the scoring. Predictions go in, results come in from Formula 1, scores update. Nobody has to volunteer as the spreadsheet person. Two months later, the "weekend project" has leagues, telemetry analysis, a meme championship, 20+ blog posts, embeddable data widgets, and I haven't slept properly since.