Catapult Vector costs around $800 a unit. STATSports isn't far behind. Both are built for professional teams with sports science staff and enterprise procurement budgets.
Every basketball trainer and coach we've talked to tracks their players with notebooks, spreadsheets, and gut instinct. They care about the data. Nothing has existed at a price that works for them.
We're college students building this on our own time and our own budget, heads-down through the summer. Every decision has to be the right one. We're not VC-backed. We're not running a Kickstarter. We're making it with our own hands and shipping it in public.
Handles the business side: customer discovery, go-to-market, and making sure we're building something trainers and coaches will actually pay for.
Builds the pod hardware and firmware with Kai, from the board and sensors to the radio. The one asking "will this survive a season in a gym bag."
uilds the pod hardware and firmware with Ryan, from the embedded code to the data path from sensor to a coach's screen. The one asking "will this data actually mean something."
The performance gap between pro programs and youth basketball isn't about coaching quality. Pro coaches have data. Youth coaches and private trainers have instinct.
Slingshot closes that gap with something built for the person running a training session at 6am before their day job. The trainer with 15 clients. The coach with 22 kids and no budget.
We're building the tool they should have had all along.
Beyond the three founders, a small early team is forming across outreach, health data, and brand as we move toward the summer pilot.
Helps with trainer and academy outreach across LA, OC, and SD, supporting our in-person presence with the operators we're building this for.
Works on the health and physiology side, making sure what we measure actually reflects athlete load and recovery. The one asking "is this data telling us something real about the body."
Advises on media, brand, and how Slingshot shows up publicly as the product moves from build to pilot.
That's by design. We're three founders trying to make a dent in an industry we love. We don't have a real company yet. We have a hypothesis and the time to prove it out.
We're not making money on the 2026 pilot. The hardware costs us more than we charge for it, and that's on purpose. What we're trading for is feedback from real trainers, real data from real sessions, and the chance to build the version operators actually want, instead of the one we'd build alone in a dorm room.
Revenue comes later. After the product earns it.
If you train or coach basketball and you've been waiting for this, we want to talk. 5 design partner slots for Summer 2026: priority access, direct input into the product, and founding pricing.