Tennis, Taps, and the Power of Uninterrupted Focus
Are you building features nobody wants? Discover the breakthrough mental model to unlock growth by quietly eliminating your product's hidden, daily friction.
Is keeping score during a tennis match really a problem? Not exactly. Anyone can count.
The problem is losing the game while you’re counting.
Arguing over whether it’s 15-30 or 30-30. Forgetting. Checking your watch. Looking at your opponent. Trying to get your head back into the point.
It’s one of those tiny, annoying frictions that happens again and again, at every level of recreational tennis.
We’re not talking about professional matches, of course. This is a subtle but very real pain for people who have brought tennis into their lives as a hobby.
That’s exactly why they built scorebot.app:
What it does is not simply “digitize the score”.
It removes the friction.
It works from your watch. One tap for your point. Double tap for your opponent’s. Your phone stays safely outside the court, showing the score. The speaker gives you motivating voice announcements.
Made a mistake? Press and hold.
The player’s attention is no longer on the scoreboard.
It’s back in the game.
This is how good products are born.
You take a repeated pain, turn it into a system, and solve it so quietly that the user barely notices the product doing the work.
The real product here is not scorekeeping.
It’s giving attention back to the game.
And honestly, when building products, I think that’s what we should focus on more than the feature itself.