Most friend groups have a game they've run for years — a draft, a pool, a Calcutta — held together by a spreadsheet and a group chat. The Patio is an experiment in turning those into real little apps.
The idea is simple: the same scoring system that took a person a season to maintain in Excel can now be wired up in an afternoon. So the weird, specific rules your group argues about don't have to be flattened into someone else's template — they can just become the game.
We're starting by testing it on the games we already played ourselves — a golf-major draft we'd run for years, a March Madness team draft that started on a high-school lunchtime patio (yes — that's where the name Patio Games comes from), and now a World Cup auction. It's early and a little rough in places; that's the nature of building it fast and in the open.
If you run a small-group game out of a spreadsheet — whatever the sport, whatever the rules — we'd genuinely like to hear about it. That's how we figure out what to build next.
Tell us the format and how it scores. We read everything.