RinkSync: A Hockey League App Players Can Get Into Again

RinkSync runs a hockey league from one app: players, teams, games, stats, badges and chat, plus a dashboard for each rink and a platform admin over all of it. Its founder had moved the app from another AI builder onto Base44 himself, and then the player side stopped loading. In his words: "When you log in it just goes to a blank screen." I started with a paid audit to find what was actually wrong, then fixed it in a two-week fixed-price sprint.

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Every screen on the player side had two addresses that differed only in capital letters, and the app bounced between them forever, so nothing ever loaded. One routing fix brought the player app back, and players who sign in now land on their own home screen instead of an admin page they can't use.

Games never closed on their own, so the statistics had nothing to count. Games now finish, results feed the stats, a completed game's score can be corrected, and past games open to their details.

Badges read from a shared set of numbers, so every player saw the same progress. Each player now earns their own. The login streak counts one visit a day, the trivia streak ends when a day is missed, and the daily trivia question changes each day.

A new team saved its rink as plain text, so it never appeared on that rink's dashboard. Teams now link to their rink. In chat, direct messages show the right person, team managers can send broadcasts, the Contact button on a free agent opens a conversation, and profiles that showed "Player not found" load again. The layout fits an iPhone without scrolling sideways.

The audit recommended moving off Base44, and a written comparison set out both paths. The founder chose to stay, because he likes seeing the app and changing it visually, so the job became making the fixes hold there. Two automated checks guard the routing and badge ownership, and a publishing runbook in the repository keeps the next change from undoing this one.

Is your AI-built app live but falling apart? Tell me what users see when it breaks. I'll find the cause and fix it where you want to keep building. Book a call at cal.com/andres-sepulveda-morales or email andres@redmage.cc.