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Pickle Sensei
AI pickleball coach for solo practice, one swing at a time
26 followers
AI pickleball coach for solo practice, one swing at a time
26 followers
Pickle Sensei turns solo pickleball practice into a clear feedback loop. Step into the start zone, swing one stroke, and get an estimated player rating, technique score, checkpoint scores, and the one thing to fix next. Train serves, returns, drives, dinks, third-shot drops, volleys, and overheads with slow-motion skeleton review, 40+ drills, progress tracking, and ranks. Video stays on your device. Try one rating free, then Pro from $7.99/month.
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Hey Product Hunt! I'm Raunak, the solo developer behind Pickle Sensei.
I play a lot of pickleball, and the hardest part of improving was knowing what I was actually doing wrong. Lessons are expensive and filming yourself doesn't tell you much on its own.
So I built a coach that lives on your phone. You set it up side-on, step into frame on your own, hit a stroke, and on-device pose tracking measures your form. Instead of a wall of stats, you get a score and one clear fix to work on next, plus a slow-mo replay that pauses at each key phase. It's built for solo practice, not for filming games.
A few things I cared about:
Privacy: your video never leaves your phone.
- Honesty: ratings are coaching estimates, not official ratings, and a failed scan never uses your free rating.
- Fast: no shot picker or timer. It detects the stroke and stops on its own.
It's free to try with one rating, and Pro unlocks unlimited. I'll be here all day answering questions.
one side-on camera is a real constraint for pickleball specifically, a lot of what separates a good dink from a bad one is paddle face angle and wrist position at contact, which a silhouette view from the side can hide or guess wrong on. the "honesty" framing in your post is the right instinct, so does the technique score account for what the single angle genuinely can't see, or is there a risk it confidently scores a stroke well when the real fault was never visible to the camera in the first place?
@galdayan Great question, and you're right that a single side-on view has real blind spots. The app never sees the paddle face directly. "Face and wrist stability" is measured from how steady the forearm angle stays through contact, so it's a proxy, not a true face-angle read.
What it does to stay honest: every checkpoint carries its own confidence, and anything the camera couldn't see is marked unscored instead of guessed. If too little of the stroke was visible, the result is shown as lower confidence, or the attempt isn't scored at all (and doesn't use your free rating).
But yes, a fault that's invisible from the side, like an open face with a clean-looking arm, can slip through. That's why it gives one fix at a time rather than claiming to catch everything, and why the setup guide puts you side-on at waist height where contact is most visible. Thanks for pushing on this, it's exactly the kind of limit I want to be upfront about.