Playnlive.com – Sports and Fitness Platform

By Nakul Kapur on July 17, 2015 9 Comments / 3873 views

Hi All,
I’d like to introduce my startup on behalf of the entire team of Playnlive.com. We are an online sports and fitness discovery and booking platform.

So what exactly is Playnlive?
Playnlive is a platform for people to discover a place to learn, play and train for sports and fitness. We inspire you to play and experience something truly amazing and mesmerizing. Our mission and vision is to make you happy. That’s what we have set out to do. Visitors can log on to Playnlive.com, select their city, select a sport/fitness activity and search for a facility near their place. Playnlive has more than 10000 sports facilities listed on the website across 5 cities (Delhi,Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore). A visitor can view images of the establishment, find out the facilities available, timings, reviews, maps, contact number and email on Playnlive. Not just this! You can also book free trials with the facilities.

How did we start?
I started building Playnlive along with two friends in 2013 when we were discussing our love for sports at a coffee shop. I bounced off the idea to them and they were immediately ready to try their hands at it. We planned the roadmap for covering Delhi as a region first and started ground work within next 2 weeks. However things never went as planned and it was difficult to do the visits to sports facilities with our hectic work schedule. As a result one of my friends quit in no less than 3 months. I was determined to work on it and we shipped the list of 300 verified facilities in Delhi NCR in the month of September’2013. One of the two friends is still at Playnlive and is the co-founder.

How can you use Playnlive?
You can use Playnlive.com on web, mobile browser and we have just launched our android application. Follow the short url to download Playnlive from app store: https://goo.gl/i17SeV

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What is Playnlive PASS?

Playnlive PASS is one pass for all your sports and fitness needs. Currently live only in Delhi, Playnlive PASS is a monthly membership pass that lets you create workout routines that work for you. You can book unlimited classes throughout a 30 day period. Select from over 50+ activities and enjoy fitness like never before!

If you are not sure about your monthly membership, buy as per use. We also have daily/hourly PASS sessions where a user will only have to pay for a particular class.

A user can also request for personal trainers at home for yoga, fitness, self-defense, martial arts.

Sports lovers can requests to book a ground/court and Playnlive takes care of the rest.

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Feedback?
I would like to take a moment to thank you for going through our story and would love to hear from you if you have any feedback for us. You can email me at nakul@playnlive.com or tweet @kapurnakul 🙂

Comments

Nakul Kapur

9 Comments

Ashish Sethiya July 23, 2015, 5:32 pm

I love sports (playing) not watching and so I am immediately in love with what you are doing, wish you all the luck for your venture.

I think in your case video testimonials of people who were able to get involved in some sport would do a good job – it’s like playnlive in action. Also in some sports like Tennis, I used to struggle to find a partner. In other words are you looking at helping people in sports match making or a group building or something.

Anyway this is what comes to my mind now. Thanks, Ashish
Nakul Kapur July 23, 2015, 7:07 pm

Hi Ashish,

Thanks for the heads up 🙂 Connecting users to play with each other is on the radar but it will take sometime before we roll it out. Do try the newly launched android app and share feedback with me at nakul@playnlive.com
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal July 26, 2015, 2:16 pm

6 MB 🙂 Nice!

Ps – why is it 12+

I dunno why its not accepting a download on my Samsung … (Via the Web Store). Let me check.
Nakul Kapur July 26, 2015, 2:21 pm
Thanks Alok.
1. We are further trying to get it below 5 MB 🙂
2. It shows 12+ because of the category selected in the Play Store. I will re-check it once again.
3. Please let me know if you face any issue in downloading the same. Looking forward to your feedback 🙂
Ashish Sethiya July 28, 2015, 5:29 pm

Hi Nakul

I stay in a complex in Bombay which has sports facilities, rather I wanted to stay in such society so I and my family can go out and play.

If I had an app like yours some years before I would be utilising it all the time to find tennis courts and people to play with (though I am not a good player still 🙂

The thing is I am lucky to stay in a place like this but not many people would be able to and perhaps that’s where utility of your app comes into play.

Let me share my perspective as I play myself and interact with some others like me , see if it makes sense or ignore if it is confusing 🙂

– Sports are expensive and I guess people who could afford or are willing to pay would be above 30 years or so and kind of up-perish middle class. Now the problem with 30+ years old (like myself) is that we become too lazy and busy – so even if we want to and we can afford we may not be regular users. Call it inertia, if you will.

But most of these people are keen to get their children enrolled for some sport or other on regular basis. This could be because of awareness, vanity, social pressure and so on.

So my point is I see the scalability of app coming more from Parents using it for their children / teenage or college going children of relatively well to do families using it for themselves and some grown ups also using it for themselves. Here when I am talking I am talking more from the perspective of sports like tennis, swimming not activities like Yog or gym etc

I hope I have not confused you and I can assure you that I’ll spread the word.

It’s the field I love.

Thank you for reading,

Ashish
Nakul Kapur July 29, 2015, 4:48 am

Hi Ashish,

Excellent understanding of the platform. To answer to your point of catering to parents and their kids, we have segregated listings into three categories’ sports coaching academies, sports clubs and complexes and fitness centers (gyms, yoga studios etc). Hence a parent can find sports coaching for their kids and clubs for themselves. To add to it a visitor to the website can also find fitness centers like gyms, yoga studios etc.

Appreciate your reply and help in spreading it across in your network. Please share any feedback you have in reply to this post or on email at nakul@playnlive.com

Your reply has given an early morning boost to me and the entire team of Playnlive 🙂 Thank You Ashish!
asha chaudhry July 29, 2015, 12:23 pm

hey nakul,

be sure to come to trhs Open House in gurgaon!

https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/therodinhoods-mumbai-open-house-march-28-2015-agenda
Ashish Sethiya July 29, 2015, 2:01 pm

You are welcome Nakul, hope you do really really well.

Ashish
Nakul Kapur July 30, 2015, 9:06 am

Sure Asha. Thanks for the invitation 🙂