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What is Fleaflicker?

Fleaflicker lets anybody play fantasy sports for free. Beginners appreciate Fleaflicker's ease of use. Seasoned veterans take advantage of Fleaflicker's extensive customization.

Who we are

Ori Schwartz

Founder & Lead Developer

Ori launched Fleaflicker August 2005, sold it to AOL April 2008, and reacquired it June 2011. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, the interior designer Lauren Stern.

Hal Spivack

Marketing & Product Development

Hal supports hundreds of thousands of users, leads product development, and handles all of Fleaflicker's marketing. He previously worked at AOL and the NFL.

Funding

Fleaflicker was initially bootstrapped and has always been lean and profitable.

Under the hood

Fleaflicker is built on top of myriad technologies. On the server side, Fleaflicker is written in Java. It uses MySQL to store data, memcached to cache it, and Tomcat and HAProxy to serve it to hundreds of thousands of fantasy sports fans around the world.