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Match Play Events
👤 Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen (Danish JS dev in San Francisco who helped build Podio; a competitive player scratching his own tournament-night itch.)🌐 sitehgstrp.com𝕏
A solo dev's tournament tool became the default software for competitive pinball: 1,500+ events a month.
Will it work? · our read
Owns the niche. The software is copyable; the decade of data, the OPDB standard, and the IFPA ranking link are not. Tiny market, but he owns all of it.
01How the money moves
Builds a Swiss-pairing tool for his own pinball nights
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Becomes the default; results feed IFPA world rankings
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Organizers pay $30-75/yr for premium formats & registrations
02The numbers
about 25K
registered users
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1,500+
tournaments / month
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3.7M
games recorded
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Founder-stated counts (Kineticist interview). Revenue is not disclosed. Kineticist
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Kineticist — Match Play founder spotlight: about 25K users, 1,500+ tourneys/mo, 3.7M gamesMatch Play — premium plans: Pro $30, Premium $50, Patron $75 per yearIFPA — partnership with Match Play EventsMatch Play Handbook — Match Play Ratings vs IFPA WPPRAbout Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen (founder; built Podio)
Revenue is NOT disclosed. Match Play is a solo, bootstrapped product; the $50-150K/yr range is our estimate from about 25,000 registered users and the $30-75/yr freemium tiers, not a first-party figure (tagged Estimate, not independently confirmed). The user/tournament/game counts (about 25K users, 1,500+/mo, 3.7M games) are founder-stated in the 2024 Kineticist interview. The IFPA partnership and Match Play Ratings are documented on IFPA and in the product handbook. No fabricated drama: this is a patient, decade-long execution story, not a single genius pivot. The "own the ranking link, not the UI" framing is our read of why it stuck [our read]. We never score you.