About LaneSight
Built by a bowler. Designed to run the sport.
LaneSight started as a question on a long drive: "Can you track a bowling ball with a phone?" Three months later, it's a platform that connects bowlers, coaches, leagues, tournaments, and federations.
The story
It started with a simple frustration. Competing at state and national level, juggling a mess of separate apps just to cover the basics. One for tracking. One for patterns. One for scores. One for arsenal. None of them talked to each other, and the person doing all the integration work was the bowler, carrying context between tools that were never designed to work together.
The first version solved that problem: one app where tracking, planning, arsenal, and patterns all share the same data. But the deeper we got, the more we saw. League secretaries still running Windows desktop software from 2010. Tournament results written on paper and typed in days later. Governing bodies with no live view of their own sport. Every layer of bowling had the same problem: disconnected systems, manual processes, and data that never reached the people who needed it.
So LaneSight grew. Scores flow directly from supported center scoring systems into the platform. League rosters, standings, and results appear automatically. Every bowler gets a profile whether they have an account or not. Coaches see their bowlers' data in real time. Federations get a national view without asking anyone to do anything. The platform that started as a ball tracking experiment is now the infrastructure for the sport.
What we believe
The sport deserves better tools
Bowling is a precision sport treated like a casual game by most software. The athletes, coaches, leagues, and federations who take it seriously deserve tools that match.
Data should flow, not be entered
Scores already exist in the scoring system. Rosters already exist in the league database. Memberships already exist with governing bodies. The job of a platform is to connect what already exists, not make people type it in again.
One platform for the whole sport
Bowlers, coaches, league secretaries, tournament directors, and federations all need the same data. They should all be on the same platform, not running five different systems that never talk to each other.
Built for the lane, not the boardroom
No VC growth pressure. No ads. No data selling. LaneSight is built to be good, not to be big. Every decision starts with "does this make the sport better?"
Melbourne, Australia
LaneSight is designed and built in Melbourne, Australia. We're a proud partner and gold sponsor of the United Tenpin Bowling Association.
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