In Chicago, entrepreneur and former soccer athlete Brett Johnson uses Google Gemini to close the gap between idea and execution at SwitchedOn® Training Inc. — from collaborating with his developers to analyzing feedback from 750K users for smarter app tools.
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🚀 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗼 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟯.𝟯 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲! One of the features we're most excited about in this release is 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙌𝙪𝙞𝙯𝙯𝙚𝙨. Coaches can now create short pre-practice and post-practice quizzes tied directly to their practice plans.
🧠 𝘽𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚: prepare players for what they’re about to learn.
✅ 𝘼𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚: reinforce key concepts and measure understanding.
Learning doesn’t only happen during practice. Sometimes a quick 2-minute quiz before or after practice can help players retain concepts, build sports IQ, and arrive more prepared.
In addition to Practice Plan Quizzes, we also added:
💳 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙚 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: Coaches can now activate their Stripe account directly in the mobile app and manage team finances in one place.
⚽ 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙥 𝙏𝙤𝙤𝙡: Generate full-game lineups for basketball and soccer based on your roster and preferences.
📢 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨: Coaches can now post announcements to keep players and families informed.
Our goal remains simple: help coaches spend less time managing logistics and more time helping kids learn, improve, and have fun playing sports.
Every feature is free to try on our website and mobile app.
Building human-centred support networks in sport and beyond | Helping athletes and leaders thrive during and after the game | Founder, ReTribe | IIHF Level 2 Ice Hockey Coach
We know this one might ruffle a few feathers.
But everything we share inside the ReTribe app is science-based, and this piece of research from Stanford University is something every hockey parent deserves to know about.
It's the kind of information that doesn't come with an agenda. No judgement, no finger pointing. Just tools, context, and a little food for thought from people who study how young athletes' brains actually work.
This is what the app is built around. Zero cost to you. Real information. Delivered in a way that respects your intelligence and your experience as a parent.
The app is coming. And there's plenty more where this came from.
#IceHockey#HockeyParents#YouthHockey#ReTribeCollective#FutureOfHockey
A football fan built his own app in 10 minutes. Not a developer. Not a startup. Just a description.
An Argentina fan was opening 15 tabs before every match to check lineups, standings, injury news, and head-to-head records. Instead of waiting for someone else to build a solution, he opened SketchFlow and created one himself.
In about 10 minutes, he had an app with historic match results, a match predictor, and a fan community wall—all generated from a simple prompt, with no code required.
The football angle is interesting, but the bigger story is how quickly ideas can now become usable software. The distance between "I wish this existed" and "I'm using it" used to involve weeks of work, a budget, and a development team. Increasingly, it starts with a description.
That's what makes prompt-to-app technology so powerful: not creating demos, but helping people build tools they genuinely want to use.
What would you build if all you had to do was describe it?#NoCodeDevelopment#PromptToApp#DigitalTransformation#CitizenDeveloper#SportsTechInnovation
We're 2 weeks away from the complete relaunch of Student Systems.
What started as a small tool for the students at the school I go to has grown into something I'm genuinely proud of. Timetable sync, assessment tracking, study tools, a student card, the tuckshop, uniform shop — all in one place, built specifically for students, by a student.
The platform has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. Faster, smarter, and way more polished than anything we've shipped before. 100+ users already on it through word of mouth alone — no marketing, no budget.
And now we're taking it to the next level.
Google Play is in progress right now — submission imminent. Once that's live, we're moving straight to the App Store. Two platforms, one goal: making student life easier.
2 weeks. We can't wait.
#StudentSystems#EdTech#YoungFounder#BuildingInPublic#GooglePlay#AppStore
Breaking News 🚨
After years of rigorous research, Girl Math has finally been peer-reviewed and converted into an app.
No more arguing with your friends. No more explaining why the purchase was technically free.
The app will do it for you.
https://lnkd.in/drdwJD57
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Excited to share a new app I've built: Girl Math Calculator 💅
Inspired by the viral "Girl Math" trend, the app lets users enter a purchase, receive a fun Girl Math verdict, and share the results with friends.
It's a simple reminder that not every app needs to solve a complex problem—sometimes it's about creating something entertaining, engaging, and shareable.
📲 Available now on Google Play:
https://lnkd.in/dhA5uwx2#Flutter#MobileDevelopment#AndroidDevelopment#IndieDeveloper#AppDevelopment#SoftwareEngineering#GooglePlay#Entrepreneurship
**Girl Math Calculator is intended for entertainment purposes only and does not provide financial advice.**
🗂️ Scattered notes = scattered results.
If your coaching staff is scribbling on whiteboards, texting reminders, and losing track of film notes… it’s costing you.
🎯 Wardbord brings clarity, structure, and accountability to your football program.
✅ Organize coaches’ notes by position, player, and phase (O/D/K)
✅ Track every evaluation with performance-based metrics
✅ Create a paper trail of progress—from first rep to game night
✅ Share feedback instantly with players through our mobile app
✅ Make sure no player—and no detail—slips through the cracks
🧠 Great coaching starts with clear communication and consistent follow-through.
📈 Wardbord makes both automatic.
📲 Start maximizing accountability in your program today → www.wardbord.com#Wardbord#FootballAccountability#CoachesNotes#OrganizedToWin#FootballSystems#ModernCoaching#CoachSmarter#HighSchoolFootball#FootballIQ#PlayerDevelopment
I've built a lot of apps (100 is the goal) this year — Padel, Tickets, Education, Platforms — and the one problem I kept hitting was: how do I record and share what I just built for free?
So I built that too.
SayCheesey.com is what you get if Loom and YouTube had a baby. Record your screen, go live, collect tips from viewers, get AI summaries automatically, and let your audience reply with their own 60-second video — all without installing anything.
Free tier, works in Chrome today, no credit card.
Would love for some LNers to kick the tyres and tell me what breaks. Brutal feedback welcome.
SayCheesey.com
I’ve followed and utilized Simplifaster's blog for years. They’ve built a resource hub for performance education and now training products.
At TRUEFORM, we’ve always approached treadmills through the lens of movement first. We’re not checking a box by offering a curved treadmill, but by providing movement solutions in a way that feels more connected, more natural, and more transferable to real-world performance.
Excited to see TRUEFORM now available through Simplifaster
Here's a great TRUEFORM related SimpliFaster article (thanks to Derek M. Hansen) to check out https://lnkd.in/gq65NwEp
We’re excited to welcome TrueForm to the SimpliFaster lineup!
The TrueForm Trainer gives coaches another way to help athletes take ownership of their sprint training year-round.
☑️ Self-powered design
☑️ Responsive Belt Technology
☑️ Bluetooth and app integration
☑️ Modular design
☑️ Available with turf or tread surface options
A great speed tool for coaches working with athletes of all levels.
The TrueForm Trainer is now available through SimpliFaster.
Learn more at: https://zurl.co/g93gD
Yuval Dorfman hit his $50k Kickstarter goal in under one hour. Within 48 hours, the campaign was at 150% funded. By day seven, it was at 400%.
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He's a solo developer remaking Tex Murphy: Killing Moon Rising - a 1994 cyberpunk noir point-and-click game - in Unreal Engine 5. And the campaign didn't succeed because of ads or luck. It succeeded because of a community he spent years building before a single dollar was asked.
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🎮 The origin story is worth hearing: Yuval built one office scene in UE5 just to sharpen his craft. He posted it in a 12-year-old Facebook fan group. The response was enough to keep going - first the street, then more locations, then a full Discord server, then the original developers from the 1994 production reached out.
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💡 A few things that stand out from our conversation:
→ The campaign launched from the original Tex Murphy Kickstarter page, giving it immediate credibility and a proven track record
→ Yuval was a backer on the previous game himself - he built this as a fan, and the community felt that
→ Kickstarter's algorithm rewarded the early spike with their "Projects We Love" badge, amplifying organic reach
→ His one regret: only six or seven days of pre-launch subscriber building. He'd give it a full month next time
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📋 GameReady served as strategic advisors on this campaign, so this episode is a genuine behind-the-scenes breakdown - not a highlight reel.
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Full conversation with Yuval Dorfman is up now.
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#Kickstarter#IndieGameDev#GameReady
Part 2 of building a Fabric App is ready to go. It's much improved, but I tell me how to push it further! Thoughts? https://lnkd.in/g9fbwVv4
In the video:
→ The design decisions
→ The bugs
→ The redesign (yes, the Tufte way)
→ Every change tested in a real signed-in browser with Playwright
Honored to be featured and grateful to the Google team for sharing our story!