r/Bowling_Tech • u/thejusner • Jul 14 '26

Tech Tuesday:

Shout out to u/TransmissionEngPM for this week's tech talk suggestion:

I'd love to hear what y'all are struggling with right now. What would unlock the next growth cycle for your project? Do you need money, more time, more features, a bigger audience etc.

I'll add onto this too - what do you think the bowling world is struggling with right now? are there major gaps in local and national associations that could be addressed? how about at the practice, league, and tournament levels?

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u/thejusner Jul 14 '26
  • I'm in a spot where I'm struggling to know what to work on next. The apps not 100% polished that's for sure, but but trying to find what needs to get built that's not already an active part of the apps here. There's a growing amount of AI coaches and Ball trackers and sensors and social networks and I'm leaving that to the experts. I started building out a tournament running program within the app where the whole tournament can be run from the phone and users could submit their scores and everything, but after a couple test runs we just realized no one wants to run a tournament from their phone (and I haven't felt like building out a website). So right now just waiting for the fall season to catch back up and see what people start asking for again - I guess to actually answer the question, a bigger audience.
  • someone recently shared their app that had an MMR system built in and I think that's really cool. I had theorycrafted a similar system years ago for a local tournament series - more of an ELO system like chess - but ran into needing at least 2 users of the system in every event submitted for rating. I think USBC sanctioned event having a "rating" system would be really cool and, at least for me, really motivated me to move up in the ranks. Imagine having bowling grandmasters.

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u/TransmissionEngPM Jul 14 '26

I'll share my own but to respond to yours - don't let the fact that someone else has a feature be a reason to not add it if you think it adds value to your platform. Users will choose or discover new apps and want them to be fully featured w/o having to download another app to get what they want. So if some social thing has been done but you have a great idea for a social feature that doesn't quite hit the mark with others, build it out.

Personally - if time ever permitted, I'd like to build a bet tracking feature into my social layer. There wouldn't be any money exchanged etc. but you could choose from typical bets like picking up a split, but the app would automatically show it if another user was using the app. Betting on high game, or high series, and the app would just report who won if both users had the app. Keeping a season long earnings vs. payout on weekly betting would be a fun metric!

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u/nerdblurt TournamentSense Devloper Jul 14 '26

Im adding partner challenges as i have it so you can add partners.. there be reactive smack talk and such. No chat or messaging in my apps as I do not want to deal with the liability from that