We are building the digital home for Philippine pickleball — a place where players find games, organizers run them without spreadsheets, and clubs grow their communities.
Pickleball grew in the Philippines faster than the tools to run it. A typical community session is organised across three group chats, a paper list, a row of paddles against a fence, and one very patient volunteer who spends the entire evening answering the question "whose turn is it?" instead of playing.
That volunteer is the reason OpenDinks exists. Every feature we have built started as something an organizer was doing manually and resented doing: tracking who has played how many games, working out a fair next matchup, chasing session fees, checking people in, keeping a tournament bracket accurate while forty people ask about it.
None of that is glamorous. All of it is the difference between a community that grows and one that quietly burns out its organizers.
The platform covers the full life of a local pickleball community, from a single Tuesday-evening session to a multi-division tournament.
Digital check-in replaces the paddle stack. A weighted assignment system proposes fair matchups based on who arrived first, who has played fewest games, and who has waited longest — and the organizer confirms or adjusts before anything is final. Players see their position in the queue on their phone, and a big screen display shows current and upcoming matches on court. You can read more about how the rotation works.
Registration with partner matching and waitlists, skill and age division rules, seeding, pool play, single and double elimination brackets, live scoring, standings, referee assignment and results export. Built for community-scale events run by volunteers, not for professional tour stops.
Clubs get a home page, membership management, a community feed, photo albums and messaging channels. Venues can publish their courts, amenities and playing hours so local players can find them.
OpenDinks is a solo project rather than a company. It is built and run from Davao City in the Philippines, and it exists because keeping open-play rotation fair stops being a paddle-stack problem and starts being an arithmetic problem somewhere around the third court.
It is built by Aljon Moliva, an AI engineer and solopreneur based in Davao City. One person writes the code, answers the support email and ships the releases — so when something is broken or missing, you are talking directly to the person who can fix it.
Funding is deliberately simple. Event fees are the only revenue at the moment. Players do not pay to join a session, check in, or use the rotation, and if that ever changes this page will say so before it does.
We read everything sent to us. If you run a session, a club or a venue and something here does not fit how you work, we would genuinely like to hear about it — most of what we have built came from exactly those conversations. Reach us at opendinks.app@gmail.com or through the contact page.