SmashRank: Padel Matchmaking App, Idea to Google Play with AI

Padel is booming in Pakistan, but finding a match still runs on WhatsApp groups and DMs. It's slow, and there's no fair way to find opponents at your level.

Solo founder and PM. I owned strategy, UX, design, build (with AI coding tools) and the launch. I'm not a deep engineer, which is the point: I used AI to get from spec to a shipped Android app.

Product bet: replaced DM back-and-forth with an availability-posting model and a player ranking system.

Design: dark-first UI with a lime (#c6ff33) accent, then adapted it into a full light-mode colour system.

Build: Expo and EAS Build for Android, FCM v1 push notifications through Firebase, Netlify for the web at smashrank.pk.

Launch: took the app from draft to closed testing on Google Play, then handled tester requirements, store listing copy, tournament terms and the production access submission.

Business: built a five-year financial model for investor conversations and identified court-owner letters of intent as the key pre-pitch step.

A PM who can prototype and ship with AI cuts weeks off the path from idea to real users. That's what I offer clients: clear specs, and working software to go with them.