TeamSnap makes it easy to manage your team Jun 12
20 comments Latest by Aart Nicolai
TeamSnap is a smart new Rails-based product that lets people manage recreational or youth-league sports team online.
Anybody who’s coached or played on a recreational adult sports team or youth sports team knows how hard it can be to keep track of all the players, games, and team payments. TeamSnap takes the headache out of team sports by making it simple to manage your sports team online.
It’s well done too. Useful concept, great presentation, attention to detail, smart marketing site, nice buttons/icons, friendly, etc.
Some screenshots:
Nice buttons and icons.
Thoughtful blank slate.
“Andy” guides you through the team settings process.
“Save” or “Save and Create Another” buttons.
The upload button echoes the header icon so it feels like you’re doing the right thing. And note the nifty little inline cancel button at the button.
Matt from TeamSnap wrote to us to tell us about the launch and the inspiration he received from attending one of our “Building of Basecamp” seminars:
I attended your “Building of Basecamp” seminar in Seattle a few years back and wanted to thank you and your team for inspiring us to follow your lead and transition from a “web design firm” to a “web-based software developer” (still underway). Our team has read your blog and book with great interest—your insights have been invaluable to us as we’ve worked on TeamSnap…Thanks again for inspiration and support!
Glad we could help guys. And kudos on building a site that meets a real need and does it well.
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20 comments so far
Eamon 12 Jun 07
Can you link to larger screenshots? These are pretty hard to read.
Karl N 12 Jun 07
Are you sure you guys didn’t make this?
Not that that’s a bad thing, I guess…
Anonymous Coward 12 Jun 07
Eamon, why don’t you do some of your own work and sign up to see it for yourself?
Chad Crowell 12 Jun 07
I registered for Teamsnap (as a softball player and sometimes manager) about a month ago when I happened across it. Its a very useful app that – after some small upgrades- will do exactly everything I need to manage a team. Well designed, FUN to use and easy on the eyes. Bravo fellas!
Benoit 12 Jun 07
What application do they user for their help (http://help.teamsnap.com/)? Is it a wiki?
Anonymous Coward 12 Jun 07
I liked this post the first time when it first appeared over at Mike’s Davidson’s blog a couple weeks ago.
carlivar 12 Jun 07
Yup teamsnap is a pretty nice app. Our team is definitely glad to be off evite (especially after their recent hideous redesign).
One thing I wish teamsnap did is send out email reminders for upcoming games. I need to send that feature request to them… or maybe they’ll read it here.
DJ 12 Jun 07
This idea is the same as Team Cowboy (www.teamcowboy.com). Team Cowboy doesn’t look as cool but it has a lot of the same functionality and is in many ways much simpler to use.
Matt Triplett 12 Jun 07
Hi Benoit and team,
Thanks for all the help! The BoB Seminar was really the turning point for us. We saw that you guys had successfully made the transition from “design firm” to “web app developer”, so it gave us a lot of inspiration to make that same transition ourselves. :)
BTW , our help website is just a re-skinned WordPress blog.
Cheers,
Matt Triplett
Creative Director
Sparkplug (and TeamSnap)
Jeff Mackey 12 Jun 07
The ‘testimonials’ page on the TeamSnap web site is hilarious, if you hadn’t noticed it yet. Take a closer look at each picture. Nice app, and nice design all around.
Matt Triplett 12 Jun 07
DJ: Yep, we’ve got that on our list along with a ton of other really cool feature ideas. We’ll make an announcement when notifications are up and running. Stay tuned!
Andrew Nesbitt 12 Jun 07
I wonder why they did they marketing pages in PHP ?
Matt Triplett 12 Jun 07
We just had an existing templating system already set up in PHP for the marketing site and haven’t yet switched it over to Rails.
Brian Dainton 12 Jun 07
@Matt
TeamSnap looks insanely slick. Great work.
Kenn Christ 12 Jun 07
Eamon 12 Jun 07
@AC: Uh, because I’d rather not waste their resources signing up for a product I’m not going to use?
uihero 13 Jun 07
I came across this aboput a month ago as well… nice clean design, well thought out, intuitive… a pleasure to use.
Garth 13 Jun 07
The testimonials section is very witty.
Jake 13 Jun 07
Just wondering…how does one of the seemingly thousands of rails site make it to SvN?
Aart Nicolai 17 Jun 07
Take a look at mysportsplanner.com. This website is around since 2005 and has around 20.000 users. Best of all it’s FREE and it has a very straight forward interface.
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