Two balanced sides. Nobody downloads a thing.
Sides splits your pickup game into even teams and drops tonight's lineup straight into the group chat you already use.
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Sides splits your pickup game into even teams and drops tonight's lineup straight into the group chat you already use.
What it is
Sides is the roster brain for the person who runs the game.
You build the teams, chase the spares, and track who owes — then the app hands you a plain text to drop in the chat. Your crew never installs anything, never makes an account, never learns the app exists. They just get a message, like they always have.
We sit in the gap between a note on your phone and twenty back-and-forth texts and make all twenty guys sign up for a league app. Organized like the app. Invisible like the group chat.
Who it's for
The Tuesday shinny. The Thursday beer league. The Sunday skate. No league, no org, no season fees — just you, a group chat, and a recurring headache: who's in, who's short, whose team, who paid. You already do all of this by hand at 11pm. Sides does the busywork; you keep the judgment.
One test decides every feature we ship
Does it still work for a 62-year-old with an Android phone and zero apps installed?
If the answer is no, it's not in the app. That's why your players never tap, rate, sign up, or install a single thing.
The wedge
Every other team app is a destination: everyone installs it, everyone makes an account, everyone has to keep showing up inside it. That works for a league with a budget and an admin who can make people join. It falls apart for a volunteer with a group chat — half the crew never signs up, and now you're running two systems.
Your crew keeps talking where they already talk — iMessage, WhatsApp, green bubbles, whatever. Sides only ever writes into that conversation. It never moves it, hosts it, or reads it.
What it does
Team builder
Sides keeps last week's teams and moves only the changes — the guy who's out leaves a hole, tonight's spare drops into it. Tap the hole, tap the player. No skill forms. Nobody rates themselves.
Spare hunt
Short a defenseman? Sides ranks your spares by who actually fills the hole. Pick a few, or blast the whole D-capable list, first-yes-wins. It even surfaces your Thursday guys as Tuesday spares.
Still waiting on
Post the ghosts into the thread and let the pile-on work. A league app can only send Dave a notification he swipes away. Sides makes the whole group ask him.
Schedule
Set the pattern — every Tuesday, 9pm, Rink 2 — trim the holidays, send it once. Every phone, iPhone or Android, offers "Add to Calendar." No app required to read it.
Dues
Sides remembers who's paid and drafts the private, one-to-one reminder — never a callout in the group chat. Money moves the way it already does; Sides just keeps the ledger.
Every output
Every lineup, notice, ask, and reminder is text you send. Sides writes the message; you tweak the tone and tap send in your own thread. You're always the one talking to your crew.
The sharpest thing a destination app can't do — because Sides never left the chat.
What we don't do — on purpose
Price
Run eight full sessions — teams, spares, dues, all of it. When it's earned a spot in your Tuesday routine, unlock it for good. The meter lives on your device; looking around and imports never count against it.
Lifetime
One payment, done forever.
Yearly
If you'd rather.