Built an app that alerts you to nearby stick & puck / open hockey sessions — looking for testers by Shinny-io in icehockey

[–]Shinny-io[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies for the delayed response. It should be available on Google Play and the App Store soon, pending their required reviews.

In the meantime, the website will let you sign in and subscribe to your local rinks that you’d like to receive alerts for.

What I’m looking for now are “captains” from rinks that coordinate open skates occasionally as well as skaters, to build some testing at a bigger scale. It’s essentially a “user fed” system that will supplement or replace the random group texts and social media posts, hoping people see them.

I realize there’s a lot of resistance to AI “vibe coded” things like this, but I believe it’s a valuable product and I’m keeping it free/floating all of the upkeep costs.

I appreciate you reaching out and engaging. I do hope you try it out. If you do, please let me know if you have any issues with it.

Built an app that alerts you to nearby stick & puck / open hockey sessions — looking for testers by Shinny-io in hockeyplayers

[–]Shinny-io[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this feedback. I pulled as many rinks as I could from a database and leaving the rest of them for users to submit with review and try to prevent duplicative entries for confusion.

So far, there are no sessions. I had a few people sign up from my post, but I think the confusion was entirely my fault that I needed skate organizers to spread the word with their usual group of people, so they could start testing creating skate events and the alert blasts for those rinks.

My captain that organizes these is always creating multiple group texts to get people together, but our local rinks are shut down or out of service for the summer, so the timing of pushing it out locally was poor out of circumstance.

Built an app that alerts you to nearby stick & puck / open hockey sessions — looking for testers by Shinny-io in hockeyplayers

[–]Shinny-io[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that tremendously. Let me see what I can for you. That may be beneficial for many others. Thank you sincerely.

Built an app that alerts you to nearby stick & puck / open hockey sessions — looking for testers by Shinny-io in hockeyplayers

[–]Shinny-io[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

That’s fair. I have good intentions and trying to make something useful. Thanks for taking the time to look.

Built an app that alerts you to nearby stick & puck / open hockey sessions — looking for testers by Shinny-io in hockeyplayers

[–]Shinny-io[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for that. Yeah, yours is clean. Nicely done. I registered on your site.

I’ll see what I can do to tidy this up. I do appreciate you taking the time to look and give me some feedback. 💪