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Show HN: I built a standalone WASM playbook builder for sports coaches

https://playmaker.click/playbook
2•paulgrimes1•2h ago
Hello HN, I made a simple web app for drawing up plays for amateur sports coaches: https://playmaker.click/playbook

It's inspired by Excalidraw; I love how you can hit buttons and go into different modes so I tried to replicate that for desktop users. It should work nicely on tablets, phones not so much.

The main motivation was to learn some Rust and WebAssembly, the recent WASM 64-bit address space update is interesting to me, so I put together a lttle playbook engine that handles player movement, trail recording, and ball possession tracking. It runs the animation/interpolation stuff in the browser.

The rest of the stack is Laravel/Vue on the frontend, Tailwind for styling. Nothing too fancy. I wanted something where I could drag players around, record movements, and play them back like a little animation (double tap outside the field). Supports football (soccer), basketball, rugby, and hockey fields, reasonably badly drawn

There's rough edges for sure; the Rust code could probably be cleaner, I got a bit of help from Claude but where applicable I dug down into the reasoning as to "why", so it was a good learning experience figuring out how to expose structs to JS via wasm-bindgen and learning about serde.

The playbook all runs locally in the browser, and saves the play config into the URL using LZ-String so it can be easily shared without blowing browser URL address bar limits, but I haven't tested silly-big plays on it yet.

Happy to answer any questions about the setup or my approach in general. Cheers! PG

Ask HN: What book are you currently reading?

1•sujayk_33•5m ago•0 comments

How Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudWbvE8ZKw
1•akshatjiwan•8m ago•0 comments

The U.S. offers Ukraine a 15-year security guarantee for now

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/29/g-s1-103906/ukraine-russia-trump-zelenskyy-security
2•geox•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What skills and projects should an unemployed software dev focus on?

1•MITfather•10m ago•0 comments

I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/i-built-a-receipt-printer-for-github-issues/
1•itzlambda•15m ago•1 comments

Documentation for Developers

https://leaddev.com/communication/build-documentation-developers-actually-navigate
1•shehabas•16m ago•0 comments

The ARR Illusion in the Age of AI

https://oswarld.com/eng/insight/250816_ai-arr-illusion-gmv-vs-arr
1•haebom•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Magic Input – Use your iPhone as a keyboard and trackpad for your Mac

1•willswire•17m ago•2 comments

Asahi Linux M1 DisplayPort working during CCC #39c3

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/tree/fairydust
3•heredoc•21m ago•1 comments

AI-generated content in Wikipedia – a tale of caution [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution
1•vinni2•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple Chrome extension to play focus music

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/focus-music/bnecaegenddgoleofplogafikcdkckkm
1•404softwarelabs•23m ago•0 comments

My 2025 review as an indie dev

https://xenodium.com/my-2025-review-as-an-indie-dev
1•xenodium•24m ago•0 comments

Sora will make social media creators 'far, far, far less valuable'

https://www.businessinsider.com/lightspeed-partner-sora-creators-far-less-valuable-2025-12
1•bookofjoe•25m ago•0 comments

An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/opinion/ai-democracy.html
4•voxleone•25m ago•2 comments

Show HN: A simple, free Hacker News reader for iOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-reader-app/id6502296871
1•togido•26m ago•0 comments

Want to Learn about Timepieces

1•ClaudeGustav2•26m ago•0 comments

When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K [felt] all too real

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/29/on_call/
2•dijksterhuis•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Simple Geometric Constraint Solver

https://github.com/kasznar/geometric-constraint-solver
2•kasznar•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ornix – Zero-setup folder organizer for macOS

https://kolee.kr/apps/kolee-ornix
1•yahoai•31m ago•1 comments

Happy 16th Birthday, Krebsonsecurity.com

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/happy-16th-birthday-krebsonsecurity-com/
3•feross•34m ago•0 comments

Why AV1 is not used more broadly (2023)

https://old.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/17314ik/comment/k44x4lj/
3•tosh•35m ago•0 comments

The processes behind making the combs and cylinders at Reuge

https://www.thenakedwatchmaker.com/making-reugecombs
1•ClaudeGustav2•35m ago•0 comments

AI-Powered (SaaS, App, etc.) Idea Validation System

https://github.com/kzeitar/idea-sieve
1•khalidzeiter•38m ago•1 comments

The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/technology/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html
1•thm•43m ago•0 comments

Why Vxlan?

https://goyalankit.com/blog/note-on-vxlan
2•goyalankit•45m ago•0 comments

Wired Magazine Got Hacked

https://www.facebook.com/ethical.hack.group/posts/wired-magazine-got-hacked-23-million-subscriber...
3•nomilk•50m ago•0 comments

Non-Zero-Sum Games

https://nonzerosum.games/
30•8organicbits•53m ago•1 comments

Wormhole send and receive die with SIGILL

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/693
1•hggh•56m ago•0 comments

I was tired of FFmpeg, so I made FFmpeg for humans

1•alpbak•57m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Does enterprise GenAI adoption come from constraint, not intelligence?

1•genum_Lab•1h ago•0 comments