BuildMay 19, 20264 min read
Building demo mode for a real app, without a database
How Pickleloonies' /demo route lets visitors try the full app — RSVPs, chat, payments — with zero backend writes.
Field Notes
Build log, guides, and the occasional pickleball news roundup.
BuildMay 19, 20263 min readShipping log — May 2026: 47 commits, 1 outage, and one feature I regret
A monthly recap of what shipped on Pickleloonies in May 2026 — features, fixes, the outage, and what got cut.
BuildMay 19, 20264 min readFrom web app to App Store: the Pickleloonies native roadmap
What it actually takes to bring an existing Next.js app to iOS and Android — the plan, the costs, and an honest timeline.
BuildMay 19, 20264 min readDesigning the RSVP-and-guest data model (and the 3 things I got wrong)
A walkthrough of how Pickleloonies models session RSVPs and guest invites, the mistakes I made, and how the schema looks now.
- BuildMay 18, 20264 min read
Why I built Pickleloonies (and quit my spreadsheet)
My Tuesday pickleball pod was being run out of a Google Sheet. It worked for nine months. Then it stopped working — badly.