An interactive demo of the CleatShare carpool board, with made-up names. Use the “Take Riley” button to move Riley into the open seat in Sam Rivera’s car; it rewinds itself afterwards. No real team data is shown.
2/3 kids have rides
67%
Needs a ride (1)
Riley· Coach Dana
Everyone waiting has a seat.
Open rides (1)
SR
Sam Rivera1 left
Round trip · 3 seats · North lot, 8:15
AveryJoOne open seatRileyopenRiley
A live demo of the real board — tap it. Demo team, made-up names.
Sound familiar?
“Can anyone take Jake?”
Asked at 9pm. Answered by nobody. Asked again at 7am.
The spreadsheet nobody updates
Two seats were open on Tuesday. Then they weren’t. Nobody said.
Forty-message thread, zero answers
Who’s driving back? Which lot? Is the 3:30 still on?
One Saturday, from post to pickup
Three moments, one board. Nobody has to scroll back through a thread to find out what changed.
1
The coach posts Saturday’s game
Opponent, time, field. It lands on the team page with an invite link and a short code — nothing for anyone to install.
2
A parent offers three seats
“Three kids, round trip, north lot at 9:00.” The seats go up the moment it’s posted, and the count is the same one everyone else is reading.
3
Everyone sees the same board
Seats claimed, kids still waiting, and the one number a coach actually needs — how many have rides. No thread to scroll back through.
Built for the sideline, not the boardroom
Seats left, live
Drivers post seats. Parents claim them. The count updates instantly and never overbooks.
Who’s in the car
Every ride shows the driver and every kid riding. No guessing at the lot.
Coverage meter
“6/11 kids have rides” — the one number a coach actually needs.
Magic-link join
No passwords, no app store. Works on iPhone Safari and Android Chrome.
Waitlist that fixes itself
Car full? You’re next in line and move up automatically when a seat frees.
Ride notes
“North lot, 8:15, two booster seats.” The details that make carpools work.
Live Window
Your coach never gets to watch your kid
There is no button in CleatShare that shows a coach where a child is. Location is shared only inside a window you accepted, for one event, and it switches itself off — because a volunteer with standing access to eleven children is not a feature, it’s a problem.
Off until you say yes
Nothing shares by default. Every window is a fresh choice, per event, with Decline the same size as Accept.
It ends by itself
At the time the coach set, sharing stops and the live dots disappear. Nobody has to remember to turn it off.
Kids’ phones stay out of it
A child’s own phone only ever shares with a parent’s written, logged consent — revocable any time, and a team can switch it off entirely.
What a parent is actually asked. Decline is the same size as Accept.
“I’d just text the parent and use Find My”
Plenty do. It works until the roster grows, the drivers rotate, or someone is left in a car park at 8am.
How CleatShare compares with a group text and with Find My
Group text
Find My
CleatShare
Who can see a child’s location
Nobody
Whoever that family shares with, for as long as they share
Only inside a window a parent accepted, for one event
Does access end on its own
—
Only if you pick “one hour” or “end of day” — otherwise it keeps going
Yes, at the time the coach set
Kids without their own phone
—
Invisible — no device, no dot
Show up in their driver’s car
A record of who agreed
—
None
Every accept, decline and revoke is logged
Families on Android
Yes
No
Yes
Who still needs a ride
Scroll back through the thread
—
One number at the top of the board
When you’re away for the weekend
It all stops with you
—
The board keeps working without you
Who can see a child’s location
Only inside a window a parent accepted, for one event
Find My: Whoever that family shares with, for as long as they share · Group text: Nobody
Does access end on its own
Yes, at the time the coach set
Find My: Only if you pick “one hour” or “end of day” — otherwise it keeps going · Group text: —
Kids without their own phone
Show up in their driver’s car
Find My: Invisible — no device, no dot · Group text: —
A record of who agreed
Every accept, decline and revoke is logged
Find My: None · Group text: —
Families on Android
Yes
Find My: No · Group text: Yes
Who still needs a ride
One number at the top of the board
Find My: — · Group text: Scroll back through the thread
When you’re away for the weekend
The board keeps working without you
Find My: — · Group text: It all stops with you
If you coach eight kids, the same four parents always drive and everyone is on an iPhone — a group text is genuinely fine. CleatShare earns its place at around a dozen kids, several events a week, drivers who rotate, or a club that needs a record of who consented to what.
Not another team app
We do rides. Not chat, not payments, not uniforms, not the whole season. If your team already uses something for the schedule, keep it — CleatShare is the ride board that sits next to it.
CleatShare
✓ Carpool board with live seat counts
✓ Join in one tap, no download
✓ Optional game-time location window
✓ Parents free
Full team-management suites
• Schedule, chat, dues, stats, photos…
• Everyone installs an app
• Carpools buried three menus deep
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