The-Versus

Football fans never stop arguing about who was better. The-Versus turned those debates into head to head comparisons that fans vote on, broken down into the factors that matter.

After building the platform, I used it to learn how AI agents and automated workflows work in practice. I set up an agent with OpenClaw that ran two loops, with me as the editor.

• Player database

  Players with images and career accomplishments.

• Collectible cards

  Cards in different rarity levels, pulled from weighted random bundles.

• Marketplace

  Users could buy cards and bundles.

• Squads and challenges

  Users built squads from their cards and played challenges like Bingo and Starting XI.

Every piece of content fed the game.

Owning a player's card earned tokens whenever that player won a comparison, and an article about a player released special rarity cards of that player.

Real payments through Stripe for card bundles and a Pro subscription.

At first the agent kept getting things wrong.

Writing better prompts was only part of the fix: I had to simplify the site's flow and teach the agent the process step by step until its results were consistently good. An agent is only as good as the process it runs inside, and keeping a human approval step is what made it safe to automate.

• About 100 comparisons
• 5 articles
• About six weeks

I paused The-Versus when I realized the player images raised copyright and licensing issues. Taking it offline was the right call until it can use licensed or original artwork.