About

We’re helping coaches stay focused when it matters.

We’re Ishan and Sid, students at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in New Jersey. We love sports, we love AI, and we love using technology to solve real problems.

Where this started

Sideline started at a volleyball game. We were watching from the stands and counting everything happening at once: footwork, tempo, rotations, etc. We kept coming back to the same question: how does one person keep track of all of this? After the match we asked the coach, and he told us he loses most of what he notices before he can do anything about it. That was all we needed to start building.

The problem

During live play, coaches notice dozens of things worth fixing. The rally doesn’t stop for note-taking, so those observations live in memory, and memory doesn’t survive a five-set match. By the next practice, most of what a coach saw is gone.

What Sideline does

You tap once and say what you saw: “Block closing late on the outside.” Sideline transcribes it and structures it into searchable notes, organized by player, skill, priority, and game. No typing during play. No tagging. No reorganizing a notes app at 11pm.

How that’s different

A voice memos app gets you halfway there, then leaves you with forty unlabeled recordings to replay at midnight. Sideline transcribes and organizes each note the moment you record it. Film tools like Hudl work days after the game. Roster tools like TeamSnap handle schedules, not observations. Sideline is built for the actual moment of coaching: the ten seconds between noticing something and losing it.

Get in touch

Sideline has already run games with our school’s team at WW-P South, a top-five program in the state. Now we’re looking for our first ten volleyball coaches to run it for a season, boys’ and girls’ programs alike. If that’s you, email sarda.ish@gmail.com. Every email gets read by one of the two people who built this.