Ludusio
Where athletes meet the coaches who change their game.
We built Ludusio to close a real gap in athletic training. Athletes waste hours hunting for qualified coaches, juggling phone calls and comparing prices by hand. Ludusio puts every verified coach on one screen, handles scheduling in real time, and tracks progress session by session. Three native apps, one backend, and no wasted time, so athletes can spend their energy training rather than searching.
The energy of the field, on every screen
Ludusio borrows from the intensity of live competition. A neon lime cuts through a deep navy the way stadium lights cut through a night game, and every tap feels like a step closer to the next training session. The interface stays clean and uncluttered, because athletes do not have time to wade through noise, and the design respects that by getting out of the way, the same restraint our iOS app development team carried into the Swift build.
App walkthrough: five screens, one complete journey
Discover coaches
Athletes browse a curated roster of verified coaches across every sport, with smart filters to narrow by location, hourly rate, rating and availability so the right match surfaces in seconds. Each card previews specialties, certifications and recent reviews, so there is no endless scrolling or guesswork before booking a session.
Coach profile
Every coach gets a rich, structured profile with credentials, a photo and video gallery, session types with transparent pricing, and verified reviews from past athletes. Athletes can compare specialties, training styles and track records side by side, giving them genuine confidence before committing to a booking.
Book a session
Real-time scheduling that simply works. Pick a date, choose a time slot and confirm in under a minute, with the calendar merging live coach availability and existing reservations so athletes only ever see slots that are genuinely open. No double bookings, no back-and-forth phone calls, no wasted time.
Track bookings
A single dashboard holds every training session, ongoing, upcoming and completed. Athletes can review past sessions, reschedule with one tap and leave structured feedback after each one, and coaches get the same clarity from their side, keeping the whole journey transparent and accountable.
Rate your coach
Star ratings and written reviews build a public, verifiable track record for every coach on the platform. New athletes choose with confidence, the best coaches earn visibility, and the whole community benefits from honest, session-based feedback that keeps quality high across every sport and location.
Key features: every feature earns its spot on the roster
Coach discovery
Filter by sport, location, rating and hourly rate, with every coach profile showing credentials, a gallery, specialties and verified reviews from past athletes. Finding the right coach becomes a matter of seconds rather than an afternoon of phone calls.
Real-time booking
Pick a date, pick a time slot and confirm in seconds, with the calendar merging coach availability and existing reservations so athletes only see what is genuinely open. The real-time nature is what removes the friction that kills most booking flows.
Three user roles, one platform
Athletes browse and book, coaches manage schedules and training plans, and admins oversee everything, with each role getting a tailored experience on the same platform. Building three coherent experiences on one backend is what makes the marketplace work for everyone at once.
Ratings and reviews
After every session, athletes rate their coach and leave a review, and coaches build a public track record that helps new athletes choose with confidence. That feedback loop is the trust engine of the whole platform.
How it works: find, book, train
Three steps from searching to stepping onto the field.
Find your coach
Browse coaches by sport, rating, location and availability, with every profile showing credentials, session types and reviews from other athletes. The right match is easy to spot because the information that matters is right there on the card.
Book a session
Pick a date, choose public or private, and confirm in seconds, with the calendar showing only genuinely available slots, updated in real time. The booking is done before a phone call would even have connected.
Train and track
Show up, train and log your progress, while coaches update plans after each session and athletes see their growth over time. The platform turns a series of one-off sessions into a visible journey of improvement.
Built with: native apps, custom backend, cloud-ready infrastructure
Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android handle the booking flows, coach browsing and session management, while a custom PHP backend on AWS with MySQL owns the scheduling logic, user accounts and payment state. Building both apps natively kept the experience sharp on each platform, and putting the scheduling intelligence on the server is what keeps every booking accurate.
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Challenges and solutions: hard problems, clean answers
Scheduling around wildly varying availability
The booking system had to adapt to schedules that are never the same twice. Every coach sets different availability windows, session lengths and blackout dates, and athletes in different time zones need to see accurate open slots without confusion or error.
We built a calendar engine on the backend that merges coach availability, existing bookings and time-zone offsets into a single clean feed. Athletes only see slots that are genuinely open, updated in real time as bookings land, so the complexity is absorbed by the server and never reaches the athlete as confusion.
Questions founders ask before kickoff.
Cost, timeline, architecture, features. The answers coaches and athletic directors need before greenlighting a coaching platform.
It depends on scope, but as a guide, a coaching marketplace like Ludusio in the Netherlands typically runs from around EUR 30,000 to EUR 70,000 or more, given the real-time booking, multiple roles and native builds. We give a fixed estimate after a short discovery call rather than quoting blind.
A backend calendar engine merges each coach's availability, their existing bookings and time-zone offsets into one clean feed, so athletes only ever see slots that are genuinely open, updated in real time as bookings land. That is what removes the double bookings and phone-tag that make manual scheduling painful.
Yes. Ludusio is built so each coach can define their own session types, lengths and prices to fit their sport, and athletes can choose formats such as public or private. The flexible model means one platform handles the full variety of sports without forcing every coach into the same template.
With a server-side calendar engine that absorbs the complexity. It combines availability windows, blackout dates, existing bookings and time zones, and resolves concurrent booking attempts cleanly so a slot can never be double-booked. The athlete simply sees accurate, genuinely open times.
Coaches need a rich profile with credentials and gallery, schedule and availability management, session and pricing setup, a clear view of upcoming and past bookings, and the ability to update training plans and respond to reviews. In Ludusio the coach experience is tailored to running their practice, not just receiving bookings.
A native coaching marketplace like Ludusio typically takes around five to seven months from concept to launch, given the booking engine, multiple roles and two native apps. We work in two-week sprints with working software throughout, so progress is visible rather than going quiet until launch.
It depends, and both work. A single app with role-based experiences keeps everyone on one platform and is often simpler to maintain, which suits many marketplaces. Separate apps can make sense when the two sides are very different. We help you choose based on your audience rather than defaulting to one.
Each session is logged, coaches update training plans after sessions, and athletes can review past trainings and see their growth over time from a single dashboard. Turning a series of bookings into a visible journey of improvement is part of what keeps athletes engaged and coming back.
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