Hello, world — what is KidGOAT?
If you're a parent of a kid who plays sports, you've lived this scene: the game ends, you scramble through 47 photos and a shaky video, and somebody asks "wait, how many points did Ozzy score?" and you have no idea. Two weeks later all that's left is "I think they had like… 8?"
That's why I started KidGOAT. It's a living sports page for every kid — a real home for their stats, their plays, their games, their moments. Free, simple enough for any parent, and built so the league grows the more parents join.
What it actually does
KidGOAT is three things at once:
- A page for every kid. Each player gets a real public profile — name, jersey, team, photos, season averages, every game they've played. Shareable URL. Updates as they play.
- A live game tracker. Tap your kid's plays as they happen — points, rebounds, steals, blocks. The tracker scores the game, builds a play-by-play feed, and saves everything to their page when the game ends. One tap per play. That's the whole interaction.
- A league. Every parent's tracking feeds into a shared league across teams in your area. Top scorers, biggest rebound performances, best 3-pointer games — all the stuff that disappears in group chats but is gold to a kid.
The thing that's hard about youth sports
It's not the kids — they're great. It's the infrastructure around them. Most coaches don't keep stats. League websites are abandoned. Stats apps are built for high school programs, cost $20/month, and require somebody to actually run them. Meanwhile your kid drops 14 in a 2nd-grade game and absolutely nothing exists to remember it by.
The KidGOAT thesis: if every parent on the team taps just their own kid's plays, the box score builds itself — and the kid gets a permanent record of who they are as a player, year after year.
That's the trick. Tracking has been a one-person job, which is why nobody does it. Split it across five parents and it's effortless — each parent only watches their own kid anyway.
What's working so far
The live tracker is fast enough that I can tap plays one-handed while watching my own kid. The league has real teams, real games, real data. The "share this game" link to other parents has been the biggest unlock — it makes joining a co-tracking session zero friction (one tap, no app to install).
The hardest part has been the data plumbing — making sure every kid's stats land on the right game record, on the right league row, in the right team column, with the right canonical score. Lots of subtle bugs around forks, race conditions, and edits-after-the-fact. We're chipping away.
What's next
Some things on the near roadmap:
- Minutes played — a "my kid is on the court" toggle so coaches can see playing time alongside box-score stats.
- Trend graphs — points-per-game, FT, 3-pointers over time on each kid's page so parents can see real improvement, not just totals.
- Coach pages — let coaches claim their team, add a logo, motto, photo, and invite parents in one tap. (This is partly live already — try it on the league page.)
- Better league storytelling — weekly recaps, "kid of the week," team-vs-team head-to-head pages.
If you've got a kid who plays youth basketball and you want to try it out, start their page in 30 seconds. Or if you're a coach, claim your team and add the parents.
And if you have feedback, ideas, bugs, or you just want to say hi — email me. I'm building this for my own kid first, and every other kid second. We'll get there together.
— Adam