Our own product
Padel Barista runs the night, so the organiser can play.
Sixteen people, four courts, and everyone wants to know who they're playing with next. Padel Barista draws the rounds, keeps the scores and tells you who is winning — while you stand courtside with players waiting.
Coming to Google Play.
What it does
Four things, done properly
Every round drawn for you
Add the players, pick the courts, tap Start. It pairs everyone, spreads the sit-outs fairly, and works to give everybody a turn with everybody else before the night is out.
Scores that stick
Enter a score and it is saved — not saved when you leave the screen, saved. Close the app mid-round and nothing is lost. We force-killed it overnight to prove it.
Somebody arrives, somebody leaves
Add a latecomer at round three. Mark someone gone at round five. They keep the points they won, and they stop being drawn.
Who is winning
A standings table you can read at arm's length, outdoors, in the sun. Send it to the group chat as a picture when the night is done.
What it refuses
It doesn't go online. At all.
No accounts. No sign-up. No server. Nothing to agree to.
The app asks Android for no permissions — not even internet access. That isn't a promise in a policy document: the build pipeline unzips the shipped app, reads the manifest a stranger would read, and refuses to release if a single permission has crept in. Player names are personal information under POPIA, and the app never sends them anywhere, so we are never in a position to handle them.
The Play Store “data collected” declaration says none, and it is checked against the artifact rather than the intention. The full policy is on its own page: Padel Barista privacy policy.
Why we built it
We run what we sell
Padel Barista started as a Thursday-night problem — a group of regulars, a whiteboard, and an argument about who had sat out twice. We built it for ourselves, on our own time, with the same standards we hold client work to: a tested core, versioned migrations, a privacy position that is verified rather than asserted, and every decision written down.
It is proof of the sort of thing this studio can build — a real Android app, in the wild, that has to work outdoors, one-handed, with sixteen people waiting. If you want something similar, that is the conversation to have.
Ready to build something that works?
Tell us what you need. We'll tell you honestly if and how we can help.