Overview
About HIGHERUP
HIGHERUP lets young athletes send in their game film and get a personal video breakdown from a college or pro athlete in two to four days. The website introduces the coaches, explains the three steps from picking a coach to getting a breakdown, and makes it easy for parents to start.
The challenge
What HIGHERUP needed
- A first-of-its-kind sports tech idea
- Nothing off the shelf could handle it
- Payments and private data for two sides to protect
HIGHERUP is a sports tech startup with a big idea: let parents send their kids' game film to college and professional athletes, and have those athletes break it down the way you see on TV broadcasts, drawing right on the film, then send it back. Nothing off the shelf could do it. They needed custom software that handled film uploads, on-screen drawing and recording, secure payments and private information for both families and athletes, plus a website that made the whole idea easy to understand.
The solution
The custom software and website we built
- A custom platform built entirely from scratch
- Telestration from an iPad, a phone or anywhere
- A coach backend where athletes set their own pricing
We custom built the entire HIGHERUP platform from scratch, along with a stunning website. Parents pick a coach and submit film. Athletes record themselves telestrating over that film from an iPad, a phone or anywhere, as if they were back in the film room, and send the breakdown back. Payments and personal information are handled securely for both sides. Every coach gets a full custom-built backend where they set their own pricing and manage their coaching business.
The results
What changed for HIGHERUP
- A complete custom software platform, hand-built from scratch by Walt & Gordon
- College and pro athletes can keep using their skills and earn money without taking a full-time coaching job
- Coaches work from anywhere, on any device, and set their own prices
- Young athletes get personal film breakdowns from players who have been there
- Secure payments and data handling for families and athletes