Hey r/bridge,
I'm a software engineer who started playing bridge right before the pandemix and fell hard for the game. Played in person every chance I got — friends' kitchens, a local club, the works. Then the pandemic cut off in-person play and the only mobile option was BBO, and... yeah. (No shade to BBO. The network is real. The interface is from a time before iPhones.)
Recently I finally sat down and started designing the bridge app I wish existed. I'm
not promising it'll be the app YOU wish existed — that's why I'm here.
The MVP I'm aiming at (8 weeks, iOS to start):
- Solo play vs. 3 AI bots (no multiplayer in v1)
- An AI coach that explains, post-hand, what you missed and why — not "you should have
bid 2NT" but a real paragraph that teaches you something
- A table that actually feels good on a phone
Solo dev. No team, no track record in this space. What I have is the time, the love of
the game, and AI tools that finally let one person build something like this.
What I'm looking for: 3 people who play regularly enough to have opinions, willing to:
- Take a TestFlight invite in ~2 weeks
- Play 5–10 hands
- Tell me brutally honestly whether the coach is saying something useful or just
generating plausible-sounding bridge-speak
In exchange: early access for as long as it exists, your name in the credits if you
want it, and the small satisfaction of telling me my coach is dumb (which I might
genuinely need to hear).
SAYC players preferred for v1, but not required. Comment or DM. Doesn't have to be
long — "I play, I'm in" is enough.
Thanks for keeping the game alive.