
LocalCheck - Check In , then Check Up
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Every pickup basketball player knows the ritual. It's 4pm. You open the group chat you swore you'd mute last week and type the same message you've typed a hundred times: "Anyone at the court?" Then you wait. Replies trickle in. Half the thread goes silent. Someone says "on my way" and never shows. You either arrive to a full run with a 45-minute wait, or you're standing alone on an empty slab wondering where everybody went. I built LocalCheck for pickup basketball communities — the informal networks of regulars who show up at the same courts, week after week, held together by nothing but word-of-mouth and chaotic group texts. These communities exist in every city, every neighborhood, every park. They deserve better infrastructure than a spam-heavy chat thread. What I Built LocalCheck is a real-time court check-in app that answers the only three questions that actually matter: Who's at the court right now? Who's
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