What it is
Every amateur footballer knows the same Tuesday night: forty messages to field eleven players, two dropouts at 21:00, teams picked by whoever shouts loudest, and a running tab everyone remembers differently. Playing is the easy part. Organising is the job nobody wants.
futer gives that ritual a home. Pick a date, an area and a format, see the matches happening near you, and join with one tap. The waitlist fills your spot the moment someone drops. Teams are balanced by rating, so the sides are even before anyone argues about them. Paying for your spot inside the app is the piece being built now, so nobody has to spend Wednesday chasing the group.
The feature that brings people back
a rating that means somethingThe player card is what turned futer from a scheduling tool into something people open on a Sunday. Every match moves your rating: an ELO system, the same idea chess has used for decades, applied to Tuesday night football.
It does two jobs at once. For the player it is a reason to come back, a record of the season that survives outside anyone's memory. For the organiser it is the input that makes teams fair, and fair teams decide whether a group survives its third month.
Position, tier, appearances and wins, laid out the way a football card lays them out.
Inside the app
what a Tuesday looks likeTwo screens carry the whole product. The first is what you open on a weekday evening: your rating, the matches you have played, and the next games you are down for, with creating one reduced to a single button, because whoever organises is doing it in a hurry, standing up.
The second is the search: matches near you, filtered by city and by format, each one showing how many spots are left before you tap.
Two other people have to say yes
the organiser and the pitchA match needs three parties to work, so futer has two more faces beyond the player.
The organiser gets the machinery that used to live in their head: an automatic waitlist, teams balanced by rating, and results and statistics recorded without anyone typing them up. Collecting the spot fee inside the app is next on that list.
The pitch owner gets what they are really after, which is a full court at seven on a Wednesday: visibility to players already searching for a game in their area, and a panel to manage it.
How it is built
One engineer, so every decision had to buy time. Next.js and Supabase collapse the database, auth and storage into one thing to reason about, and row-level security lives next to the data rather than in a service layer I would have to write twice.
The tests are split by what they protect: Vitest covers the rules that decide ratings and teams, Playwright covers the three flows that have to work in front of a real group — joining, dropping out and paying. A solo project without tests is one you eventually stop being able to change.
The apps are the current work. Capacitor wraps what already exists for iOS and Android: the web app is the product, and building it twice would mean building neither of them well.
- Next.js
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL · RLS
- Capacitor
- Vitest
- Playwright
- Role
- Founder, on my own
- Started
- March 2026
- Stage
- Live on the web · iOS and Android in progress
- Price
- Free for players
The next part is not code
futer today is one person, an engineer, and it shows in the product: solid, tested, and quiet. The next thousand matches will not come from another feature. They will come from someone who can walk into a pitch on a Tuesday night and walk out with a team.
I am looking for a co-founder who lives sport and knows how communities form: the hard part of amateur football is never the fixtures, it is people turning up and coming back. If you have built something around sport, whether a club, a league, a running crew or a padel group, and you have been waiting for the software half of it, this is the software half of it.
Right now this is a room of one, and I would like the team to look less like me. A different sport, a different city, a different way of reading the game: any of those does more for the product than a second engineer would.
What is already there
A live, tested product with 500+ players on the waitlist and the mobile apps in packaging. Nothing here is waiting on an MVP; you would be taking something real to people from week one.
What I am looking for
Someone who owns community and growth: pitches, clubs, players, and the first thousand matches organised because you were there.
What this is
A partnership, with equity and a real say in where the product goes, plus the work and the risk that come with both. It is not a salaried role.
Where it is now
August 2026Live on the web, with players on the waitlist in Barcelona while the apps get finished. The current sprint is the iOS and Android packaging. After that comes the hundred conversations with players and pitch owners that I cannot have on my own while also writing the code, which is exactly why the co-founder seat is open.