I built a free tennis court finder and player connector for the Triangle
I built a website to help tennis players find courts and connect with each other in the Triangle. It's completely free to use -- no ads, no paywalls, no subscriptions.
I built it because I got frustrated with the same things I think a lot of us deal with:
Every tennis app wants you to pay just to see basic court and player info
Finding hitting partners as a young professional is genuinely hard
I could never find simple stuff in one place -- does this court have a hitting wall? Lights? Are reservations required? What are the hours?
So I just built what I wanted to exist.
Right now it covers courts across the Triangle -- Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill, Apex, Holly Springs, Wake Forest, Garner, and more. Every court has details on lights, surface type, hitting walls, reservation links, hours, cost, and condition. You can also create a player profile with your skill level and availability, and message other players directly to set up a hit.
Everything is completely free to use. No ads, no paywalls, no subscriptions.
Very cool! In chapel hill there are tennis courts to add to your map - behind Chapel hill high school that are called the Smith middle school tennis courts. 6 courts, no lights, free to the public.
I'd be really curious to hear how you built it as I'm in the process of building out my first little side project as well. Are you a professional developer? What tools/tech are you using?
Thank you! Yes, I work in tech. I used Claude Code and a pretty scalable, affordable stack so then I can run this all for free. Feel free to hit my line for more in depth questions as well. Happy to help out!
This is really neat - One note here, you might want to make your name not a random generated username, looks a bit sketch. Definitely gives me 'Something smells off here' vibes. Especially since you have an empty profile.
Also Reddit has been going really hard on shadow banning people advertising their sites. (Whether they are paid or not). Since your profile has every single post being about this page, I imagine your account will be locked within the next 24 hours or so; and then this link will also be added to the spam filter.
Don't really have any advice post-action, but just a heads up.
Pic so I don't look crazy when they get banned/spam-filtered by reddit:
Thank you for the feedback. First time using reddit like this and trying to spread across the RTP to get feedback. I will hit your line on the can and cant dos with reddit. I appreciate you letting me know. This is a learning experience for sure.
Thank you!
Hey thanks this is awesome! u/West_Necessary_8982
Just curious from a technical standpoint, how/where do you host the app? there is cost associated so Iām just wondering how do you offset the hosting fees? Thanks in advance
Oval Drive Park does have a hitting wall too. It is small, but it counts I guess. If you add a rating system at some point, these courts would be low on my list š
Thanks so much for making this, it's a great idea! Do you have plans for a feature to report issues with the data for review? I've noticed a few inaccuracies so far (eg Jaycee park has 2 courts not 8, and a few location markers are off)
Hey! I haven't, but I will look into it. Seems like they have an API to get some info, would still need to get the details like the number of courts, hitting wall, lights, surface, condition, bathrooms, parking, etc. Regardless it could be a good discovery or cross validation tool! Thank you!
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u/CooterMcSlappin Feb 16 '26
This is awesome thank you!!