StudySpaces VS VolleySpike.app

VolleySpike.app's answer:

Newcastle Panthers VC

VolleySpike.app's answer:

It's built for one sport. Spike keeps score to the FIVB rules on a web scorer's console (toss, line-ups, rotations, time-outs, substitutions, liberos, sanctions), with the referee, second referee, scorer and line judges assigned to each match. Every serve, pass, set, attack, block and dig can be logged with a grade, so match reports, player cards and season totals come straight from the game. Around the match it runs the club: drills with animated court diagrams, session plans, a tactics board, a season planner that flags clashes, and an attendance register for the door.

VolleySpike.app's answer:

General team apps are built for every sport, so they cover who's coming, chat and payments. Spike covers those too (registration forms, member management, subscriptions and card payments in the UK) and adds the parts only volleyball has: FIVB scoring, touch-by-touch stats, drills and session plans, rotations on a tactics board, and players claiming the position they're coming to play. Every feature is free, with no member limit and no trial period. Spike earns only when a card payment goes through it: 2.5% + 20p per session payment, 4% + 20p per subscription payment, card processing included, nothing on cash.

VolleySpike.app's answer:

Amateur and junior volleyball clubs and the volunteers who run them: club admins, committee members, coaches, scorers and captains. Players use it to reply to sessions, claim a position, pay and chat. Parents get their own accounts to reply and pay for their children. Spike is UK-first: card payments work in the UK today, and every other feature works for clubs anywhere.

VolleySpike.app's answer:

Next.js, React and TypeScript on the web; React Native with Expo for iOS and Android; .NET (C#) microservices; PostgreSQL, Redis and RabbitMQ; SignalR for real-time chat and live updates; Stripe Connect for payments; Docker, Nginx and Cloudflare.

VolleySpike.app's answer:

I'm Denys, and I coach volleyball. Our club ran on Spond, and it did its job: who's coming, who's paid. But it was built for every sport, and everything that made it volleyball lived somewhere else. Drills sat in my notes app. Line-ups went on a whiteboard. The score went on a paper sheet that ended up in the bin, and the stats never existed at all. I'd drive home after a match trying to remember who passed well, then plan the next session late on a Sunday from memory. I loved the coaching. I didn't love that half of it lived on scraps of paper. Somewhere in those Sunday nights I started asking "what if". What if the scoresheet kept the stats for me? What if the drill I drew could move on the screen, so players got it before they stepped on court? What if the session plan ran itself on the night, and the register at the door took the cash too? Spike is my answer: the tool I wanted as a coach. It's built only for volleyball, free for every club, and paid for only when a club takes card payments. I still coach, and every time I catch myself thinking "what if", it goes on the roadmap.