Claude Code · iOS
Teaching basketball fans the strategic side of the sport with Sideline
Sideline is a basketball strategy game for people (like me) who love the tactical side as much as the highlights. You step into the coach's shoes and make the calls that win games.
I wanted to see if I could use LLMs to build a fully functional iOS app, learn how to publish things to the App Store, and brush up on some SwiftUI – so I took a topic I love (basketball!), and used a simple card based mechanism like Reigns to create something that would put a spotlight on all the tactics and the terminology of basketball.
I learned how painful it is to actually get something approved & published on the App Store, in addition to a whole lot about how Claude Code works, how to keep the project on track, what to do when solving one problem creates multiple new ones, etc.
The launch was very well received within the basketball community. I also learned to use TikTok to distribute the app and drive traffic. I also quickly realized that it is extremely difficult to get people to pay for a niche basketball strategy game app like this one (: