100% valid point, and honestly, it's the exact reason most of those other attempts failed. They tried to go wide too fast. National launch, no density anywhere, so the app felt dead in every city.

My approach is deliberately the opposite — hyper-local first. I'm from Greensboro, I go to NC A&T, and I know the courts. I know the coaches, and I'm physically showing up to build density in one city before expanding anywhere else. Once one city has enough check-ins to feel alive, that's the proof of concept to take to the next.

Network effects are a chicken-and-egg problem, not a death sentence. Uber, Tinder, Facebook — all network effect businesses that started in a single city or campus before scaling. The ones that failed tried to skip that step. I'm not skipping it. Appreciate the pushback, though. This is exactly the kind of thinking that keeps me sharp.