January last year I was asking round my friends if someone would be interested in having a few games of Tennis so I could get back into playing, but alas not one was interested! So I hunted around and found the only way I was going to find someone local would be to join a club which a) I just didn't have the time to go all the time on a certain day and b) would cost me quite a bit of money.
So I had the idea of building a site where I could find a Tennis partner, I then saw the bigger picture and started mapping out a site that you could find another player for any sport or activity! Well soon after I fired up Visual Studio and jumped straight in... Shit... After about a week I realised how much work would be involved to make it work, as the search had to be good, site easy to use and most important needed to be a mini social network to make people want to come back! More...