Footify: Run the Game, Play the Game
A Flutter app that takes the Wednesday-night kickabout out of the group chat: who's in, who's paid, who's playing where, and who won Player of the Match, settled before anyone reaches the pitch.
01 / The Challenge
One organiser, fifteen mates, and a group chat that loses everything
Every weekly kickabout runs on one person. They chase the RSVPs, work out whether there are enough players, sort the teams, and then spend the following fortnight asking people for a fiver. All of it happens in a group chat, which is good at filling a pitch and terrible at remembering anything: the line-up scrolls away, the payments go unrecorded, and last week's score is whatever the loudest player says it was. Footify's brief was to take that admin off the organiser without making the squad learn a complicated team-management tool.
Attendance lives in a chat thread, so nobody knows the real headcount until players start arriving at the pitch
Organisers front the pitch fee and then chase players for weeks, which is the single most common reason casual squads fall apart
Line-ups get posted once and then scroll out of view, so half the squad asks what team they're on again
Results, goals and Player of the Match live only in memory, so a squad accumulates no history worth arguing about
Drop-outs are constant, and manually reshuffling a reserve list every week is exactly the admin that burns organisers out
02 / Here is What We Did
Design the money out of the awkward conversation
We built Footify in Flutter, shipping iOS and Android from one codebase alongside a web companion so a player can respond from whatever they have to hand. The product decision that shapes the whole app is where payment sits: instead of treating it as post-match admin, Footify collects when a player confirms they're in, so being on the team sheet and having paid are the same action.
The reserve list sorts itself, so when someone drops out the next player moves up without the organiser touching anything.
Squads & Games
Built squad creation with a shareable invite link, player profiles and recurring weekly games, so an organiser can set up a squad and publish a first fixture in a couple of minutes rather than a session of copy-pasting.
RSVP, Reserves & Payment
Shipped real-time attendance showing who's in, pending and out, with a self-sorting reserve list, guest invites, and payment taken at the point of confirmation so the organiser is never out of pocket.
Line-ups, Reports & Stats
Added line-up creation and publishing, post-match reports with the result, a timed Player of the Match vote open to the organiser or the players who were actually there, and the stats, awards and leaderboards that build up a squad's history.
03 / Features
Everything that usually gets lost in the chat
Real-time RSVPs showing coming, pending and declined at a glance, so an organiser knows the true headcount days out instead of counting heads at kick-off.
A reserve list that sorts itself: when a confirmed player drops out, the next reserve moves up automatically rather than the organiser rebuilding the list by hand.
Payment collected at the moment a player confirms, not after the game, which removes the chasing entirely and means the team sheet and the paid list are the same list.
Line-up creation and publishing, so the teams are somewhere permanent that players can check rather than a message that scrolled away.
Guest invites for the weeks a squad is short, letting an organiser fill the pitch from outside the regular group without adding anyone permanently.
Match reports capturing the result, with a timed Player of the Match vote that can be limited to the organiser or opened to the players who actually turned up.
Squad stats, awards and leaderboards, goals, assists and POTM counts tracked among the same fifteen people week after week, which is the part that keeps a squad coming back.
Player profiles and squad management, plus a web companion at footify.live so a player can respond or check the line-up without reaching for the app.
04 / Technologies
One Flutter codebase across mobile and web
05 / Results & Impact
A weekly ritual that runs itself
“Footify is for the organiser who sorts the game, the players who show up, and everything that usually gets lost in the chat.”
Footify Limited
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