Trofeo
A free sports prediction pool for friends and coworkers with live scoring and leaderboards.
Tagline
Run tournament pools without spreadsheets
The easiest way to run a tournament prediction pool.
No betting. Just office rivalry and a live leaderboard.
Turn any tournament into a group-chat scoreboard war.
The easiest way to run a tournament prediction pool without spreadsheets.
The page repeatedly emphasizes automatic scoring, live updates, and zero manual setup, which directly attacks the spreadsheet workaround people currently use.
An alternative to betting apps for social sports competition.
Trofeo is intentionally non-gambling and frames itself around bragging rights, public shame, and leaderboard drama, which differentiates it from odds-based products while still capturing sports excitement.
Turn any major sports event into a live office or group-chat rivalry.
The product is built around friends, coworkers, notifications in Slack/Teams/WhatsApp, and live leaderboard momentum, making the emotional payoff the core benefit rather than prediction accuracy itself.
Primary user
Office managers, team leads, or internal comms people running a workplace sports pool for coworkers
ICP #1
People Ops manager at a 100-500 employee company that runs Slack as the internal nervous system
Pain
They want an easy morale activity for a major tournament, but they do not want to build rules in Notion, chase predictions in spreadsheets, or manually update scores every day.
Why this solves
Trofeo gives them a ready-made pool, automatic scoring, live standings, and Slack notifications, so the activity runs itself and keeps people engaged without ops overhead.
ICP #2
Community manager at a sports media or fan brand with an audience that comments aggressively on every match
Pain
They need a high-participation engagement mechanic that feels social and competitive, not like a coupon campaign or another giveaway entry form.
Why this solves
Trofeo turns tournament prediction into a shareable leaderboard game, and the branded pool angle plus notifications make it easy to keep people returning throughout the event.
ICP #3
Sports-obsessed friend group organizer who always becomes the unofficial commissioner during major tournaments
Pain
They want a fun way to settle predictions with receipts, but group chats devolve into arguing about who picked what and who is actually ahead.
Why this solves
Trofeo centralizes picks, scores, and standings in one live leaderboard, so the app becomes the source of truth and the built-in trash talk machine.
Strengths
- +The value prop is instantly understandable: prediction pool + live leaderboard + bragging rights, with no betting.
- +The page does a strong job matching the emotional job-to-be-done with a humorous voice that makes the product feel social, not transactional.
- +The notification integrations and free-forever up to 50 players detail make the product feel immediately usable in real teams.
Weaknesses
- −It leans too hard on jokes and under-explains the actual product mechanics: there is no clear visual of how a pool is created, how predictions are entered, or what the pool admin workflow looks like.
- −The audience is too broad on the page: friends, coworkers, workplaces, and brands all get equal treatment, which blurs the primary wedge and weakens conversion for a specific buyer.
- −The customer proof section is muddy because it flashes logos from Common Ninja’s broader customer list, not clearly Trofeo-specific users, which can feel misleading or lazy.
- −Pricing is underspecified on the main page: 'Free up to 50 players' is useful, but the paid upgrade mechanics and what a buyer gets are not clear.
- −Tournament coverage looks narrow and somewhat vague; the page shows World Cup 2026 and NBA Playoffs 2025-26, but does not explain breadth, update cadence, or when missing tournaments can be added.
Fix these
- Make the primary use case explicit: choose one wedge, likely office pools, and build the hero messaging around that segment instead of trying to speak to everyone.
- Add a product walkthrough with screenshots or a short demo showing pool creation, prediction submission, live leaderboard updates, and notifications.
- Replace the generic logo wall with proof that is specific to Trofeo use cases: office teams, fan communities, or branded campaigns that actually ran pools.
- Clarify pricing beyond the 50-player free limit: show what the one-time upgrade costs, what the limit becomes, and whether brands get separate packaging.
- Expand tournament discovery and explain coverage better: list current sports, upcoming calendars, regional variants, and what happens when a user requests a missing tournament.
Drop-in replacement copy
Headline
Run tournament pools without spreadsheets
Create a pool, invite your people, and let live scoring handle the drama.
Set up a pool in minutes
Pick a tournament, create a pool, and send the invite link. No rules doc, no manual setup maze, no spreadsheet gymnastics.
Let the leaderboard do the talking
Players submit winner or exact-score picks before games start. Trofeo updates scores and standings automatically, so everyone can see who’s winning in real time.
Keep people coming back
Notifications through Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email bring people back when matches finish and standings change. That’s how the game stays alive all tournament.
Built for offices, friends, and communities
Trofeo works for People Ops, office managers, fan brands, and the unofficial commissioner in every group chat. It’s free for up to 50 players, so you can launch fast.
FAQ
Is Trofeo betting or gambling?
No. There are no odds, deposits, or payouts. It’s just a prediction pool for bragging rights and public embarrassment.
How do people make predictions?
You create a pool for a tournament, share the invite link, and players submit winner or exact-score picks before kickoff.
Does Trofeo update scores automatically?
Yes. Tournament scores and standings update live, so there’s no manual math or spreadsheet babysitting.
What happens when the pool grows past 50 players?
The free plan covers up to 50 players per pool. If you need more, you can upgrade for larger groups and branded use cases.
What tournaments do you support?
You can browse available tournaments in the app, and there’s a request flow for missing ones. If a tournament isn’t there yet, you can ask for it.
Spreadsheets ruined every office pool. People forget to submit picks. Someone breaks the formulas. And one poor soul becomes the unpaid commissioner. Trofeo fixes that: create a pool, invite people, auto-score every match, watch the leaderboard move live.
Watch a leaderboard change instantly. Create a pool for a tournament. Invite your team. People submit winner or exact-score picks before kickoff. Then Trofeo updates scores and standings live, so the whole group gets to argue with receipts.
No betting. Just public humiliation with a scoreboard. Trofeo is a free sports prediction pool for friends, coworkers, and branded communities. Pick winners. Pick exact scores. Share the link. Let the leaderboard do the rest.
We built the app I wanted every tournament. No rules doc. No Notion chaos. No manual math. Just a clean pool, live scoring, and notifications in Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, or email. If you run the office pool, this is for you.
Your group chat is already doing this. People are making predictions. People are trash talking. People are pretending they definitely picked that upset. Trofeo turns that chaos into one live leaderboard instead of 400 messages and three screenshots.
The best office games run themselves. That’s the point of Trofeo: it works for workplace pools, friend groups, and fan communities without someone babysitting it all day. Set it up once. Let the tournament create the drama.
Free pools for up to 50 players. Perfect for teams, offices, and small communities that want a tournament side quest without signing up for software archaeology. If your people love sports, Trofeo gives them something better than a Slack thread.
Most prediction tools still need manual work. We wanted the opposite: create a pool, let people pick, auto-update everything, and keep the hype going with notifications. The less admin the organizer has, the more likely the pool survives past day one.
Here’s the whole workflow in 4 steps: 1. Pick a tournament 2. Create a pool 3. Invite your people 4. Watch picks, scores, and standings update live That’s it. No betting, no deposits, no payout rules, no spreadsheet exile.
The real winner is engagement. Tournament pools keep people checking back, talking smack, and caring about matches they would otherwise ignore. Trofeo is built for that exact loop: invite, predict, score, repeat.
Angle: Office managers need a zero-admin morale activity
Every major tournament creates the same workplace problem: Someone wants a fun office competition. Someone else ends up in a spreadsheet. And by day 3, nobody knows who’s actually winning. We built Trofeo for that exact mess. It’s a free sports prediction pool for teams, coworkers, and internal comms folks who want the morale boost without the admin tax. You create a pool for a tournament, invite your team, and people submit winner or exact-score picks before games start. Then Trofeo automatically updates standings live so the leaderboard keeps moving without anyone doing manual math. What makes this useful is not the predictions. It’s the side effect: people start checking the leaderboard, talking trash in Slack, and paying attention to the tournament together. If your company runs Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, or email as its internal nervous system, this is a very lightweight way to create a shared moment. No betting. No deposits. No payout rules. Just bragging rights and public embarrassment. If you’ve ever been the person asked to “set up something fun for the tournament,” I’d love your blunt feedback.
Angle: Branded communities need a better engagement mechanic than giveaways
Most brand engagement campaigns are forgettable. A giveaway asks for an email address. A poll gets one click. A coupon gets ignored. But a tournament prediction pool gives people a reason to come back every match day. That’s why we built Trofeo. It lets community and brand teams create a prediction pool for a specific tournament, invite their audience, and run the whole thing with live scoring and leaderboards. People predict winners or exact scores before kickoff, then watch their standing change as the tournament unfolds. The important part is the emotional loop: people don’t just enter once. They return to see if they’re still ahead, who just got leapfrogged, and who got embarrassed by a last-minute goal. Trofeo is intentionally non-betting. No odds, no deposits, no payouts. Just competitive social energy with a scoreboard. If you run audience engagement for a sports media brand, fan community, or sponsor campaign, I think this is a much better mechanic than another “win a gift card” form. Curious what you’d need to make this actually usable in your community.
Angle: Friends and group chats need a source of truth
Group chats are terrible at keeping score. Everyone swears they predicted the upset. Everyone has a screenshot. Nobody agrees on who’s leading. Trofeo exists to end that argument. It’s a free prediction pool for tournaments where friends, coworkers, and communities can submit winner or exact-score picks before games start. The app handles live scoring and updated standings automatically, so the leaderboard becomes the source of truth. I think the real product here is not “sports predictions.” It’s receipts. It’s the clean answer to: who picked what, who’s ahead, and who is about to get roasted. We also made it easy to use across the places people actually talk: WhatsApp, Slack, Teams, Telegram, and email. No betting. No payment friction. No spreadsheet commissioner. If you’ve ever run the unofficial office pool or the friend-group tournament bracket, I’d love to know what would make you switch from the current chaos.
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Tagline
Free tournament pools with live scoring
Description
Create a tournament prediction pool, invite your people, and let Trofeo handle scoring, standings, and notifications. No betting, no payouts, just bragging rights and a leaderboard that updates itself.
Maker's first comment
Hey PH — I built Trofeo because I kept seeing the same dumb pattern every major tournament: someone in the office or group chat wants to run a prediction pool, then the whole thing turns into a spreadsheet, a rules doc, and a manual scoring headache. I wanted something dead simple: create a pool, invite people, submit picks before kickoff, and let the leaderboard update itself as the tournament goes on. No betting, no deposits, no payout logic — just a clean place for competition, trash talk, and public embarrassment. The product is especially aimed at office managers, internal comms, and team leads who want a morale activity without becoming tournament admin for two weeks. But it also works for friend groups and branded communities that want a shared game people actually come back to. I’d love feedback on two things: is the setup obvious enough on first use, and does the free up to 50 players limit feel like a fair starting point?
Pinned maker comment
Would love feedback on the onboarding flow and pricing clarity: can someone understand how to create a pool in under a minute, and is the free-to-paid upgrade path obvious enough?
Meta
Your office pool needs no spreadsheet
Hypothesis: office managers and People Ops teams want a tournament morale activity, but they won’t adopt it if setup feels like admin work. Trofeo lets you create a free prediction pool, invite coworkers, and auto-score everything live. No betting. No deposits. Just leaderboard drama.
Google Search
Tournament prediction pool for coworkers
Hypothesis: people searching for office pool software want something lighter than fantasy sports and less manual than spreadsheets. Trofeo is a free sports prediction pool for teams, friend groups, and communities. Live scoring, standings, and notifications are built in.
Reddit Promoted
Spreadsheets are killing your office pool
Hypothesis: r/indiehackers and r/sideproject readers running side projects or workplace experiments want a simple, non-betting prediction pool they can launch fast. Trofeo creates tournament pools with live scoring, leaderboards, and Slack/WhatsApp notifications. No manual math, no payout drama.
Subreddits
r/SideProject
Share the build story and show the workflow: create pool, invite group, live leaderboard. Focus on the product mechanic and how you removed spreadsheet admin.
Rules: Must be a genuine side project. Share what you built and learned, not just a promo link.
r/indiehackers
Post about validating a non-betting sports game for workplace engagement, with numbers on setup time, invite conversion, or retention from tournaments.
Rules: Prefer build/process posts over pure promotion. Be transparent that you’re the maker.
r/microsaas
Explain the niche wedge: office pools and branded tournament communities, with a free tier under 50 players and the path to paid use.
Rules: Keep it tactical. Show pricing, onboarding, and a real use case.
r/EntrepreneurRideAlong
Document the launch and early customer discovery around office managers and community managers, including outreach scripts and what landed.
Rules: This sub likes journey posts and experiments. Don’t hide the messy parts.
r/sportsbetting
Position it carefully as a non-betting alternative for social prediction and bragging rights, not odds or wagering.
Rules: No gambling promo framing. Be explicit that there are no bets, deposits, or payouts.
Communities
Share a build log, early traction lessons, and a very specific question about office pools versus friend groups. Ask for feedback, not signups.
Recruit honest feedback on screenshots, onboarding, and pricing before launch. Offer to review other makers' launches in return.
Target community and growth people who run internal engagement campaigns. Lead with workplace morale and tournament engagement, not sports hype.
Cold outreach template
Hey {firstName} — saw {context} and thought of Trofeo. It’s a free tournament prediction pool for coworkers with live scoring, made for people who don’t want to run another spreadsheet. Want me to set up a private pool for your team so you can try it?
Product Hunt timing
Launch on Tuesday at 12:01 AM PT. That gives you a full weekday runway, catches US morning traffic, and works well for office-manager and community-manager buyers who are planning tournament engagement during work hours.
Indie Hackers post ideas
- 01I built a sports pool app because spreadsheets keep ruining office tournaments
- 02How we turned a non-betting prediction game into a live leaderboard people keep checking
- 03What I learned trying to sell a tournament pool to office managers vs friend groups
Competitor alternatives
Current tone of voice
Playful, taunting, and meme-adjacent, with lines like 'Think you can predict scores? Adorable.' and 'No betting. Just public humiliation with a scoreboard.'
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