The Brief
WanderSport started as a solution to a genuinely tedious problem: organising a regular 5-a-side football game between a group of friends. The usual chaos of WhatsApp threads, payment chasers, disputed team selections, and "is it still on?" messages every week.
The answer was to build something properly. What started as a simple booking tool has grown — across multiple seasons — into a full sports management platform that the group actually uses every week.
What It Does
The Game tab is the weekly hub. It shows the next session, live weather at kick-off time, each player's booking status, Stripe payment, and the full confirmed and standby player list. Players can change their availability or pay directly from the same screen.
Teams generates balanced sides using a player ability index — each player has attribute scores across ATT, MID, DEF, and GKP. Teams are assigned Bibs or Non-Bibs with an overall ability score, plus hot streak and cold streak indicators to track form.
Stats is where the app earns its depth. Each player has a full performance profile: a Player Ability Index, key stats across win rate, shot accuracy, pass accuracy, tackles, saves, and interceptions, a performance chart over time, and a full season summary. There's a Top 10 leaderboard and an Awards section. The stats are tracked across real match data going back to 2022.
YouTube archives every recorded match — each video is tagged with the teams (named after real clubs), date, format, and temperature. Years of games, documented.
More provides quick access to game history, player profiles, and a direct WhatsApp group link — keeping coordination in one place.
Technical Depth
The app integrates a live weather API keyed to the session location, Stripe for in-app payments, YouTube Data API for match video archiving, and a real-time player database tracking match-by-match statistics across multiple seasons.
It is mobile-first by design — the entire experience is built around a phone in your hand before a game, not a desktop.
What Makes It Portfolio-Worthy
WanderSport isn't a concept or a prototype. It has real users, real payments, real data stretching back years, and it runs every week. The complexity of the stats engine — tracking granular per-player performance across goals, assists, passes, tackles, blocks, saves, and interceptions — goes well beyond what the surface UI suggests.
It demonstrates what NOD Studio is actually about: building something with both design intention and real technical substance, for a real purpose.
