Padelya started with a frustration. We loved playing padel, hated the booking flow. WhatsApp threads with the front desk. Three different club apps to track which slot was free at 7pm on a Tuesday. Group chats that died the week someone got injured. Padel is a doubles sport — every game is a four-person logistics puzzle, and the tools we had were not built for any of it.
So we built the platform we wanted as players, and tried to keep clubs happy at the same time. Padelya is what came out.
What Padelya is
Padelya is a padel reservation network. One account, every participating club nearby, live availability you can see and trust. You search by neighbourhood, court surface, time. You pick a slot, you pay, you get a confirmation in your inbox with directions and the cancellation policy spelled out in plain language. No phone calls, no "let me check with the manager".
For the players who do not have a fixed crew, we built an open-match marketplace. List your slot, set the level band, and other players can request to join. Skill-matched, mediated chat, level-banded so a beginner does not end up across the net from a federation-ranked competitor. We track reputation gently — show up on time, do not cancel last-minute, climb the trust ladder. No badges, no dramatic gamification, just signal that helps the next host pick the right people.
For clubs, the equation is simple. List in 30 minutes, keep the schedule and pricing model you already use, plug into Google Calendar so you do not double-book. We charge a flat 6% commission on bookings and nothing else: no setup fee, no monthly subscription, no inventory you have to negotiate. We earn when you do.
What is coming
V1 ships with the booking flow, the open-match marketplace, calendar sync for clubs, monthly statements with CSV and PDF export, and three locales (English, French, Georgian). The roadmap from here:
- Native mobile apps: We are PWA-first today, which means you can install Padelya from your phone browser and it behaves like a real app. Native iOS and Android apps with proper push notifications and offline cards land later this year.
- Cross-club tournaments: Padel is fundamentally a competitive sport, and the tools to run a casual league across three or four clubs are missing everywhere we looked. We will build them.
- Wider city coverage: We launched in Tbilisi because that is where we live and where the founder team has the relationships. The product is built to expand — multi-currency, multi-timezone, no hard-coded locale assumptions — and we will be in two or three more cities by the end of next year.
- Player communities: Reputation, level grids, women-only filters, mediated chat with safety primitives. The goal is not a social network but a layer of trust that makes joining a stranger's match feel safe.
A note on building this in public
We are a tiny team and we are going to make mistakes. The best way to help us is to use the product, then tell us what is broken. Every help-center contact form lands in the founder's inbox. We read all of it. We do not have a marketing department to filter the unhappy notes — and we do not want one.
If you are a player, the fastest way to start is the search bar. If you are a club, hit the "List your club" button and you will be live within an afternoon. If you are a journalist, our press kit is at /press. If you are something else, write to us — we want to know.
Thanks for reading. Now go play.
— The Padelya team