Case study · App

A sports app that takes the money

Rally runs real pickleball and padel in Mumbai — clubs, weekly games, leagues, paid tournaments and live scoring. Players install it on their phones. Organisers collect entry fees through it. It has been running every week since May 2026.

Live in productionInstallable appPaymentsPhone sign-in

The ask

WhatsApp is where plans go to die

Every sports group runs on a WhatsApp group, and every WhatsApp group has the same four unanswerable questions: who's actually in, what time did we settle on, who owes for the court, and who won last week.

The answers are all in the chat somewhere, 200 messages up. Rally's job was never to replace the group — it was to take the four structured questions out of it and leave the banter alone.

“I don't want anything manual. They just want to schedule a game, get the crew to answer, and that's it.”

The brief, in one line

What we built

The whole product, not a prototype

The numbers

Real players, real money

3paid tournaments run
Weeklyleagues, every week
2026live since May

Jai Hind, 16 Aug 2026 · South Bombay, 24 & 31 Aug 2026

How it's built

No framework, no build step

Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript on Cloudflare — the whole app is served from the edge and costs almost nothing to run at this size. There's no React, no bundler and no node_modules, which is why a fix ships in minutes rather than a release cycle.

It installs from the browser like a native app, works on a bad court-side connection, and updates itself silently the next time it's opened.

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