u/mklapheke26

As the title suggests, my son’s HS coach had us parents tracking goalie shots on paper all season. It was useful enough at halftime, but after the game the paper usually just disappeared into a bag somewhere.

In the part of my life that helps pay for my son’s lacrosse habit, I work with data a lot, so I started messing around with building something that could actually track trends year to year instead of just tally marks for one game.

The goalie app was the first thing I split out because it seemed like the biggest pain point, but I’ll probably end up breaking a few other individual stat tools out of the larger team app over time too. (Faceoff for boys, Draws for girls and offensive efficiency)

Right now it tracks:

shot locations
saves/goals allowed
blocked shots
save %
game history/trends
goalie heat maps
recruiting-style graphics
iPad support for sideline tracking

My main goal has just been making it simple and fast enough to use during a live game. I still want to actually watch my kid play too.

I’d love to get a few parents/coaches/goalies willing to try it during summer ball and give honest feedback. Happy to send some promo codes out to anyone interested. Figured I’d make the promo codes long enough to get through summer ball so people can actually use it for a while before giving feedback.

Also, while my son plays boys lacrosse, I’d absolutely love feedback from the girls side too since I know goalie tracking and recruiting matters there just as much. There is setting in there to set the goalie to boy or girls so the field view renders correctly.

Would also love feedback on:

what goalie stats actually matter to you
what current tracking methods/apps are missing
anything you wish existed for goalie development or recruiting

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/laxgoalieiq/id6767604702

My son’s actually a middie, so I’m definitely learning as I go on the goalie side of things. Anything the goalie world can teach me would honestly help a lot.

Anything useful I learn from this I’ll probably work into the larger team stat app too, since that’s shaping up to be more of a coaching/team tool overall.

TLDR: built app for goalies want some people to test for me will give free access for summer ball

Hey All

I’ve been building a simple accounting app for small creative businesses because I don’t like what is currently on the App Store. Plus everything is expensive.

A lot of the smaller accounting apps I tried felt like they were based around invoicing. I don't want to have to create an invoice just because I sold something. I don’t need invoicing or payroll or any other other crap I just want something to track debits and credits and tell me if I am making money or not. I wanted something that allows me and my daughter to see our stuff and record expenses and sales.

I have a small Etsy shop myself, and my daughter runs a small bakery business, so a lot of this came from trying to answer simple questions like:

Are we actually profitable?
How much are materials really costing us?
Where is the money going every month?
Why does it feel like revenue and profit are never the same number?

I have been using a spreadsheet but that has gotten out of hand.

So I started building something simpler and more focused around:

expense tracking
simple bookkeeping
profit visibility
separating personal/business expenses
understanding real operating costs

I currently have a version 1 built and I want to make sure I capture the basics here before I move on. Version 1 works for me. My daughter, however, wants to know how much each cupcake, cookie, whatever sugar bomb she made this week is costing. I am shooting for a fine tune of version 1 and then version 2 will be a true cost of goods sold calculator for her.

So short story, made long what is everybody using or what are you frustrated with in your current solution that I may want to build into mine?

Built a lacrosse goalie stats app after getting frustrated tracking games on paper — looking for testers

Trying to build bookkeeping/accounting app that actually works for small creative businesses and need help