Most sports apps do one thing. Athlo does the whole thing. Find pickup games near you on a live map. Follow scores, lineups, and news across soccer, basketball, football, and more. Chat with other fans. Book and pay for coaching sessions with QR check-in. Sell tickets to your team's events. Built solo over two years by one engineer who was tired of juggling five apps to play and follow sports. Free on iOS and Android.
I'm Waseem. I started my programming journey in high school, building Athlo while working and grinding through school. When the app had funding, I hired a team that could engineer the app.
The thing that bugged me was how fragmented it all is and tedious to jump from one app to another. One app to follow scores. A group chat to organize a run. Venmo to settle up. Another app entirely if you coach. Every one of those tools is fine on its own, and none of them talk to each other. In addition to the fragmentation, its poor UI.
So Athlo is the whole thing in one place:
LinkUp — a live map of pickup games near you. Post one, find one, see who's going.
Scores and follows—soccer, basketball, football, and more, with lineups, live match events, and news for the teams and players you follow.
Teams—schedules, calendar sync, chat, and payments that don't require a separate app.
Coaching—book and pay for sessions, with QR check-in so nobody argues about who showed up.
Tickets—sell entry to your events with Apple Wallet passes.
React Native and Django, if you're curious about the stack. Everything from the WebSocket chat to the Stripe escrow flow to the iOS Live Activities is hand-built, which is either impressive or a red flag depending on how you feel about solo founders.
Free on iOS and Android. I'm here all day.
The part I'd most like feedback on: does pickup game discovery actually work where you live? It's the feature I'm least sure generalizes outside a decent-sized city, and I'd rather hear that now than in six months.