
I replaced our chaotic WhatsApp sports groups with a zero-login web app
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Every Friday around 5 PM, my WhatsApp groups light up. "Cricket tomorrow 7 AM anyone?" "I'm in" "Me too" "Where?" "Same place bro" "How many people?" ...17 unread messages later... "So are we playing or not?" I live in Chennai, India, where pickup cricket, basketball, and badminton are a daily thing. But the coordination happens through scattered WhatsApp groups where messages get buried under memes, nobody confirms until game time, you never know how many people are actually coming, and plans fall apart because "only 4 people confirmed." There's no single place to see what's happening, who's in, and whether there's space. This app is for every person who's ever rage-scrolled a WhatsApp group trying to figure out if the game is still on. What I Built pickup — a web app for organizing pickup sports games with zero friction. The flow: Create a game — pick a sport (cricket, basketball, badminton, football), set ti
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