The World Cup
pool with
no betting.
Just instinct.
Predict the exact score of every match at the 2026 World Cup, in a private group with your friends, your family or the people you work with. Do you have the instinct, or just the shirt?
A progressive web app built solo at JR Studio for Colombia and Latin America. Next.js, Supabase and a live feed from every match.
- Free account in seconds
- No money, no prizes, no betting
- Installs like a native app
App data as of September 30, 2026.
A game, not
a betting house.
- No money changes hands. No stakes, no cash prizes, nothing to lose.
- Deliberately outside gambling regulation. Built as entertainment from the first line of code, not retrofitted.
- Registered under Colombian law: Habeas Data (Ley 1581) and consumer protection (Ley 1480).
- What you win is the group chat for the next four years.
Four steps to
the ranking.
Predictions close one hour before kick-off, and until then you can change yours as many times as you like.
Sign up
A free account, in seconds. No card, no paperwork.
Create your group
Share a code and invite your friends, your family or the office.
Predict the matches
The exact score, before the whistle. Not who wins: the score.
Climb the ranking
Whoever reads the game best wins. Join late and you still compete: scoring counts the matches left.
Built for the
group chat.
The features that matter are the ones that make people argue with each other after a match, not the ones that look good on a list.
Private groups
Create one free, invite by code, and play against people you actually know.
Live ranking
Positions update as the results come in, match by match.
The group’s eye
See what everyone predicted once the match starts, and react to it.
Change your mind
Edit a prediction as many times as you like, up to an hour before kick-off.
Achievement badges
Nine of them, from Francotirador to Imparable, for the streaks worth bragging about.
Hidden predictions
Keep everyone’s picks sealed until the whistle. Paid plans.
Your group, your colours
Custom group colours and a podium for every single match. Paid plans.
lives on your
home screen.
Playing is free.
Paid plans only raise the ceiling: more groups, more players per group, and the extras a big office pool needs.
Free
- The World Cup pool
- One extra league
- Unlimited predictions
- Live ranking and badges
Pro
- 2 groups of your own
- 20 players per group
- Hidden predictions
- Group colours and per-match podium
Max
- Everything in Pro
- 3 groups of your own
- 30 players per group
Premium
- Everything in Max
- 4 groups of your own
- 40 players per group
- Advanced stats
One developer,
one World Cup
deadline.
Sockergo is a product with a date that will not move. Everything had to be built around that: the live match feed, the group logic, the subscriptions, the legal framing, the marketing. All of it by one person, in the months before the tournament starts.
The interesting engineering is not the predictions, it is the data. Matches sync every five minutes from a live football API, which means the ranking has to be correct while a game is still being played, and the whole thing has to hold up when a group of forty people all open the app at half time.
The other half of the work is not code at all. Positioning the product firmly as entertainment (no money, no prizes) shaped the database, the copy and the terms of service alike. There is a list of words the product never uses, and it is enforced everywhere: in the app, in the marketing and in the legal documents.
Project facts
- Role
- Founder and sole developer
- Front-end
- Next.js 14 App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4
- Back-end
- Supabase: Postgres, Auth and row-level security
- Data & infra
- Live football API on a 5-minute sync, Vercel, Resend
- Market
- Colombia and Latin America
- Site
- sockergo.com
Its own design system
- #C8FF00 lime on #0A0A0A
- Outfit for type, JetBrains Mono for numbers
- Tokens declared once in Tailwind v4
Have you got
the instinct?
Start a group before the tournament does. And if you want a product built end to end like this one, that is the day job.