u/DisastrousEquipment9

I have a niche app that I’m looking to build a more solid user base.

How have people successfully done this in the past? What marketing methods worked for you?

I made this post to gather input and feedback from the community which I then brought to the real field to test out.

We are live and looking for users. I have 1 year free codes for club owners and for pro level subscriptions!!

Please visit sign up and add to your mobile devices Home Screen while we await the process for the App Store.

https://smoke-em.vercel.app/

I shoot trap and skeet at a few different clubs, and it always bugged me that my scores lived on paper cards that ended up in a truck door pocket or a file cabinet at the club. No real history, no idea why I was dropping birds, and nothing that followed me from club to club. So I started building Smoke 'Em for myself - and it turned into something I think a lot of you would actually use.

Score a round the way you actually shoot it.
Not just "22/25." You tap hit or miss for every single bird, at every station - ATA trap (singles, doubles, and handicap with your yardage), and skeet with high/low house tracked separately. Big glove-friendly buttons, a live count, one-tap undo, and you can tag conditions (wind, sun, rain) and a note so you remember why that round went sideways.

Then it shows you your game in a way a scorecard never could.

• Averages kept separate by event -your trap singles, doubles, skeet, and handicap (broken out by distance) don't get blended into one meaningless number.
• Per-station hit rates -this is the one that got me. It'll show you that you're crushing post 3 but you've quietly lost 40% of your birds on post 5 going away. You stop guessing and start practicing the right thing.
• Trends over time, personal bests, milestone badges (first round, 25 straight…), and plain-English insight cards - "Station 4 is your weak spot," "you're up 1.8 birds over the last 90 days."

Your record follows you to every club you shoot.
One profile - your nickname, gear bag, home club, and stats - no matter where you're shooting that weekend. Add friends and you get a feed: when your buddy shoots a 24 at a club two states away, you see it, tap in, and look at his full shot-by-shot card to see exactly where he smoked 'em (or where he choked 😅). Belong to multiple clubs and pick which one reps you.

Run the whole line live.
This is the part I'm most proud of. One person can score an entire squad the way real trap works: put each shooter on any stand 1–5 (shooting alone? start yourself on post 5, no problem), and the app walks the rotation one bird per shooter, station by station, with a live squad tally. When the round's done, each shooter gets their official card pushed to their phone - they confirm it and it lands on their own profile and stats.

Built for match day, not just practice.
Running a shoot with several fields going at once? A club can appoint trusted members as scorers so multiple fields run simultaneously, all feeding the same club. And you can score walk-up guests who don't even have the app - their scores still get saved for the club's results.

I'm pre-launch and I really want feedback from people who actually break clays: What would make this a daily tool for you? Any scoring quirks or disciplines I'm missing (5-stand and sporting are on my list)? Happy to hand out early access to anyone who wants to try it at the club.

(I built this myself — not selling anything, free for your own scores. Just want to get it right for the community.)

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I just switched from oura. Whys everyone hate whoop so much? It’s so much better than oura.

Help me understand?

Hi all, I’m offering a niche home service business within the plumbing space.

How would you market locally within 50 mile radius of you? Google ads ? Local ads?

Tell me some of your experiences and learnings!!