ThePickleHub
Pickleball tournaments, livestream & community — Asia-first
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Pickleball tournaments, livestream & community — Asia-first
11 followers
ThePickleHub is a bilingual (Vietnamese-English) pickleball platform built for Asia — the fastest-growing pickleball market. Features: tournament management (brackets, live scoring, team invites), livestream + replay (powered by Mux), daily news in VN/EN, community forum, and iOS/Android apps. Official digital coverage partner of PPA Tour Asia. Free for players, free tournament tools for organizers.
Pickleball is exploding across Southeast Asia right now, not just Vietnam. Glad someone is finally building infrastructure for this region instead of forcing us to use US-centric tools. One question: any plans to expand to Thai or Indonesian language too? The opportunity here feels massive.
@nguyen_tam8 Thanks - you're exactly right. Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines are growing 3-5x YoY right now, similar curve to Vietnam 18 months ago.
Language expansion: Thai is on the Q3 roadmap, Indonesian likely Q4. The i18n framework is already bilingual (VN/EN), so adding languages is mostly content translation plus font support (Thai script needs specific handling). Prioritizing by tournament density per country.
Question back - are you based in SEA? Would love intros to organizers in Thailand or Indonesia if you know any. Reach me at thepicklehub.net@gmail.com, super useful for understanding local needs before shipping those languages.
Been using the bracket tool at our club tournaments in Hanoi for the past 2 months. Before TPH we were doing brackets on paper plus 3 Excel files, total chaos with 32 players. Now player see Their match live on their phone, zero arguments. One feature I'd love: live dashboard. Congrats on launch day
@pham_thu_huong Thanks - that "paper + 3 Excel files" scene was exactly what pushed me to build this. Saw it at local club tournaments every weekend and couldn't stop thinking about the waste.
PDF export: great call. Brackets are already SVG-rendered internally, so this should be doable within 2-3 weeks. I'll post in this thread when it ships so you can test first.
Quick question back - do your tournaments usually run single-elim, round-robin, or MLP format? I'm trying to decide priority for the next round-robin UI redesign since 20+ player draws get cramped currently.
@cuongmit I usually use round robin followed by playoff.
@pham_thu_huong ok. i will improve it. thanks
Watched the PPA Tour Asia Vietnam stop livestream on TPH last month - quality was solid, no buffering on 4G. The replay feature saved me because I missed the semifinals live and caught up the next day. Very few pickleball platforms in Asia do this well. Rooting for you!
Im livestream viewer from Vietnam
@vu_thi_hien Thanks! Mux handles the adaptive bitrate ladder for us, which is why 4G works smoothly - the stream auto-drops to 360p/480p when bandwidth dips without buffering. Saved a ton of engineering time vs. building that ourselves.
On replays: glad the SF save worked out. Next sprint I'm adding auto-generated highlights (15-30s clips of key points) so you can skim before watching the full match. Should ship in May.
Curious - when you watched on replay, did you jump around using the scrubber or watch linearly? Trying to decide if we invest in per-point chapter markers (expensive) or just better search/thumbnails.
As a Vietnamese player, being able to read tournament rules and news in my own language is huge. Most pickleball platforms I tried before TPH required me to Google-translate everything. The VN/EN toggle on the blog posts feels smooth. Would love more beginner content in Vietnamese down the line — maybe short video tutorials?
@huong_pham13 Thanks - the "Google-translate everything" pain is exactly why I spent extra time building the VN/EN toggle into every page instead of just auto-translating. Fully translated content ranks better in VN SEO too, so it doubles as distribution.
Beginner Hub in Vietnamese is shipping early May - VN versions of "Pickleball Rules 2026," "How to Score," and "How to Play for Beginners" are drafted already. Video tutorials are Q3, waiting until we have a decent production setup since phone footage won't cut it for technique content.
Question back — what specific beginner topic would you want video on first? Serving mechanics, kitchen rules, doubles positioning? Trying to prioritize based on actual player gaps.
Quick update ~6 hours in — currently ranked #48 of the day. Honestly exceeds what I expected for a solo founder launching from Vietnam with zero PH network.
For anyone discovering TPH now: bilingual (Vietnamese-English) pickleball platform built for Asia's growing scene. Tournament management + livestream + replay + daily news. Free for players, free tournament tools for organizers.
3 ideas already surfacing from comments that ship this week: PDF bracket export, notification score preview, round-robin UI rework.
Forum thread is open if you want deeper context 🏓