By
@royg51
CourtQuest is an all-in-one tournament management platform built to foster community sports. It combines registrations, payments, scheduling, live scoring, brackets, and organizer, referee, and admin dashboards into one modern platform, simplifying tournament operations and helping organizations run successful fundraising events for their communities.
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Devlog #3
Been working on CourtQuest and made a lot of progress. Improved the tournament organizer experience with new tools that make player check-in much faster and easier to manage, reducing the amount of manual work during tournament day. Continued polishing the UI/UX across the website with cleaner layouts, better spacing, smoother navigation, and lots of small quality-of-life improvements that make everything feel more intuitive. Added more motion throughout the site with subtle animations, transitions, and a few 3D effects to make the experience feel much more modern and responsive without getting in the way of usability. Also been testing the mobile experience. Still plenty left to build, but CourtQuest is starting to feel like a polished production platform instead of just another tournament website. Excited to keep pushing it forward!
22h 33m 57s logged
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been continuing development on CourtQuest, a student-built nonprofit tournament management platform designed to make running sports tournaments easier for organizers and more engaging for players. This update has mainly focused on improving the foundation, expanding features, and pushing CourtQuest closer to a production-ready platform.
I’ve been working on a major redesign and refinement pass across the platform, focusing on: Cleaner and more modern UI/UXImproved tournament discovery, Better organizer workflows. More polished dashboards, Smoother interactions and animations, Better mobile responsiveness. The goal is to make CourtQuest feel less like a traditional tournament tool and more like a modern sports platform.
Some of the areas being improved: Tournament creation and management, Registration workflows, Participant management, Standings and rankings, Match tracking, Organizer tools, Tournament analytics. I’m also improving qualification visibility in multi-stage tournaments by adding clearer indicators showing exactly where the advancement cutoff is.
18h 42m 14s logged
Built the foundational full-stack structure for CourtQuest, a tournament management platform for community and nonprofit sports organizations. Set up core architecture using Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, and PostgreSQL, and began designing the database models for tournaments, users, roles, and matches.
Implemented early tournament logic including bracket structure planning, scheduling flow design, and groundwork for live scoring and match tracking. Started building role-based access for organizers, referees, and players, along with initial dashboard layouts for managing tournaments.
Worked on authentication flow, backend API structure, and core data relationships to support registrations, payments, and tournament creation. Continued iterating on UI components and system design to support a scalable, end-to-end tournament platform.
