The network for creativity
Join 1.25M professional creatives like you
Connect with clients, get discovered, and run your business 100% commission-free
Creatives on Contra have earned over $150M and we are just getting started
Back to feedPost
Introducing TOUCHLINE 90: live football and your own fictional club, in one floodlit app built with Base44.
I designed Touchline 90 for the fan who checks the score on one app and then opens a different one to play the manager. It puts real live scores, tables, lineups, head-to-heads and odds next to a club you found yourself, so you can watch the match and then live your own version of it.
I started with the idea, then built it in phases on Base44. First came the live data: a backend function connected to two football data providers, with a caching layer to protect the request quota. Then the features: match centres, date browsing, favourites, search, a transfer market, training drills and a playable matchday. Last came the polish: typography, neon glow, goal celebrations and a full sound engine.
The part I care about most is honesty. When nothing is live, the app says so instead of inventing a scoreline. Every simulated screen carries a “Simulation” tag, so real data and the game never blur.
On the real side, you get live fixtures, league tables, top scorers, lineups, head-to-heads and odds where available. On the simulation side, you build a squad, manage the budget, sign players and train them, and the drills change their attributes.
Then comes the fun part. You step out of the tunnel and play with on-screen controls, take the penalties, and try to beat the keeper challenge. At the end of the season there is an awards night with the Golden Boot, Golden Glove and Player of the Season, all worked out from your own results.
Explore the live app: https://touchline-90-09ea5092.base44.app
Built for the #Base44Challenge with @Base44.
The network for creativity
Join 1.25M professional creatives like you
Connect with clients, get discovered, and run your business 100% commission-free
Creatives on Contra have earned over $150M and we are just getting started
Related posts
Millennium MC-2000 is a see-through Y2K flip phone that plays video. The keypad isn't decoration: every key is a real Video.js shortcut. 1–9 jump to 10–90%, OK plays, the D-pad seeks and sets volume, ✱ is captions, # is fullscreen.
The status bar is live player data: signal bars show the buffer, the battery shows volume, the clock shows time, and a ✉ arrives with each new chapter. Under 480px the lid closes and flips open on demand.
Every key is 44px and keyboard-reachable, and with reduced motion or transparency the shell turns solid and still.
It works with any video: millennium-mc2000.netlify.app/?media=plain
More explorations: two more skins I designed, switchable live on the same film, at zazzy-skins.netlify.app (House, built from videojs.org's own brand, and Darkroom, a film-developing player).
Film: "Caminandes 3: Llamigos" by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0.
Glowkey treats a video player as an object you want to touch. It's a sage-green device with brushed-metal keys that sink when pressed, a speed dial and a mixing-desk fader. Its signature idea is light: the player reads the dominant colour of the scene, and the keys, progress bar and time glow in that hue, so every shot restyles the interface. I made a demo called Channel Surf, six single-colour miniature worlds with their own music, so the change is impossible to miss. It stays fully usable: complete keyboard control, visible focus, comfortable touch targets, a dedicated phone layout, and calm motion when reduced motion is on.
The glowing controls are so good.