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Every youth team in the country already keeps a scorebook on a phone. The app that most of them use is free, and it is free for a reason: the scorebook is the funnel, the parents are the customer, and the video of their own child is the paywall. A family that wants to watch a Tuesday 10U game from work pays about a hundred dollars a year for the privilege.

We did the arithmetic on what that actually costs to deliver. Narrating a game costs nothing. Voices cost pennies per player, once. Video delivery is the only bill that grows with the audience, and it comes to roughly 75 cents per person per season — about nineteen cents a month. Serving a thousand families for a whole season costs less than what the incumbent collects from eight of them.

So Game Cast gives away the thing they charge for. Live video, replays, automatic clips of every play your kid was in, season statistics and score alerts are free, for every family, permanently. That is not an introductory price and there is no trial clock on it.

What is worth paying for

The ballpark, not the ballgame. An announcer who says your kid's name and a crowd that reacts to what actually happened. Ten seconds of the walk-up song they chose, playing as they step in. A season cut into a reel you can keep. A scout report. The archive that lasts past thirty days. Those cost real money to produce, they are genuinely nice to have, and nobody is shut out of watching their child if they skip them.

What we will not do

• Put live video of your kid behind a price. Ever.
• Sell, rent or trade anything about your family. There are no ad networks and no tracking pixels anywhere in the product.
• Pretend a feature exists before it does. Anything unbuilt on this site carries an amber "in build" chip, including the tournament tools we are most excited about.
• Hand a camera to an unidentified phone. Carrying a camera at a field full of children requires an account, deliberately.

Where it is

Game Cast is live and in beta with real teams playing real games. It installs from the web onto a home screen and opens full screen, like any app; a native iPhone version is being built. The scoring engine, the broadcast path and the record are the parts we intend to be right forever — everything else is disposable scaffolding around them.

Baseball and softball, and nothing else. An app that half-knows four sports knows none of them.