Hey everyone,
I’ve been playing squash for years and have been thinking about an idea I’d like to get some honest feedback on before I spend time building it.
The idea is a squash match analysis app where you upload a video of yourself playing, and it analyses your performance and gives you feedback on your game.
For example, it could potentially identify things like:
- Strengths and weaknesses: What you’re doing well and where you’re struggling.
- Point analysis: Patterns in points you win and lose, and what might be contributing to those outcomes.
- Tactical mistakes: Getting caught out of position, leaving the ball short, poor shot selection, or giving your opponent opportunities.
- Areas to improve: Specific things to work on in your next training session or match.
The goal would be to give players some of the insights they might get from having a coach review their match footage, without needing to pay for a coaching session every time.
My initial thought is to let people upload 10 minutes of footage for free to try it out, with the option to use more analysis if they find it useful.
I want to be realistic about this, though. Squash is a pretty niche sport, and analysing a fast-moving game accurately from video is a technical challenge. I haven’t built the app yet, and I don’t want to spend months building something that nobody actually wants.
I’d genuinely appreciate your feedback:
- Do you currently record your matches, and if so, do you ever go back and analyse them?
- Would feedback like this actually be useful to you, or do you think a human coach is much better for this?
- What would you most want the app to tell you after a match?
- Would you pay for something like this if the analysis was genuinely useful? If so, would you prefer paying per match, buying a monthly subscription, or something else?
- What do you think would make an app like this useless or frustrating?
I'm not here to pitch a finished product or claim AI can replace a coach. I'm trying to figure out whether there's a real problem worth solving and what players would actually want.
Thanks, keen to hear your thoughts, including the criticisms.