From struggling to find people to play sports in Paris to building an app (looking for feedback)

During my engineering studies in Bordeaux, I used to play football every week with my university team. It was easy — same place, same people, same time.

Then I moved to Paris, and everything changed. Even though there were sports fields near me, I didn’t know anyone to play with.

I tried WhatsApp groups, Facebook groups, and a few apps. I did find some activities, but they were often far away, and everything felt fragmented — there wasn’t one simple place to find and join games.

That’s when I remembered I had worked with a database of sports equipment locations across France. I realized I could use this data to build a map where people could not only find places, but also create and join activities.

I started building a small app for myself. At first, it was just a map. Then I added features like activities, groups, messaging, etc.

Today, the app has more than 220,000 sports locations in France, and supports 60+ sports (football, tennis, basketball, bowling, running…).

I’m building this mostly solo, and recently launched the first version on the App Store (after about a month of rejections and fixes).

Now I’m trying to get feedback and improve it step by step.

One thing I’m thinking about is making it more community-driven, where users can add places directly on the map (similar to Waze or OpenStreetMap).

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I would really love some feedback:
• How do you usually find people to play sports with?
• Would you use an app like this?
• What feature would be essential for you?

I’m also currently struggling with getting the first real users — any advice on traction for this kind of app would be super helpful.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/activigo/id6758555138

Thanks a lot 🙏