from Hacker News

Living around a few college coaches, I discovered some common pain points around saving drills and planning+running a practice. The crossover of those pain points with youth coaches was similar.

So, I built an interactive practice planner and drill library into my indie basketball coaching app, Elite Hoops[1].

I built it around three verbs, "Plan", "Run" and "Build":

Plan Practices/Workouts/Tryouts: Use the drill library to be a source of building blocks for practices, tryouts and workouts.

Run and Share: Run practices from your phone (complete with automatic drill progression) or export plans as PDFs to share/print. Build them up from your drills, piecing them together like lego pieces.

Build Your Drill Library: I included 200+ preloaded drills, or coaches can create their own, complete with descriptions, focus areas, and videos. This was key because a lot of coaches find drills they like on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or fill-in-the-blank, but they save them all over the place. Now, they've got one spot for all of them.

For some fun technical aspects, I wrote up some SwiftUI details[2] on my own blog. And, I have the marketing post with feature details as well[3].

Anyways, I feel like basketball software usually isn't that exciting, so I'm trying to sneak into the niche with some (sigh, I know) innovative approaches. If you’re a coach or know someone who might find this useful, let me know what you think, always open to thoughts/feedback.

Thanks for checking it out! Jordan

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/elite-hoops-basketball/id64437... [2]: https://www.swiftjectivec.com/Eight-Fun-SwiftUI-Details-In-P... [3]: https://elitehoopsapp.com/basketball-practice-planner-for-io...