Poddle
Swing your phone, play pickleball on any computer!
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Details
- External ID
- 1269060
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Poddle
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 63
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9650876653337435
- Tags
- Web App, Sports, GitHub, Games
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Poddle is Wii Sports-style pickleball for your browser, played only with the devices you already own. Open poddleball.com on any computer, scan the QR code, and your phone becomes the paddle. On a Mac, one AirPod can be the paddle instead; a small open-source helper app streams its motion sensors to the game, and the other AirPod stays in the case. Play a friend online, take on Matt the bot at four difficulty levels, or run a tournament, and earn trophies as you go. 100% fun and free to play!
Enrichment
- Theme
- sports entertainment and casual games
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- motion-controlled pickleball game for desktop browsers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes WebSockets/WebRTC provide real-time device sensor streaming (DeviceOrientationEvent API) paired with a simple 3D or 2D browser canvas game.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 137 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 138 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- VS Pickleball · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- PickClub · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- CourtHub · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Best Pickle Pad · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Bubble Hoop · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PickleMatch · ph · 2026-03-27 · 151 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- pinball-dp · github · 2026-09-21 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Swipick · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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