ThrowSpot

ThrowSpot is a directory for disc golf — every course in every state, with the data players actually want before they drive out: hole counts, terrain, fees, and ratings. 7,008 courses, all 50 states, built on real PDGA data. The bet is the same one the calculator sites make: be the most complete, most useful answer for a specific search, and let thousands of indexed pages do the work over time.

Here's the honest part of its story: ThrowSpot isn't new. I started it back in May, before SideRoad was even an idea — but it sat as a barebones placeholder, a domain with a skeleton on it and nothing real behind it. It's the seed the whole "ship a business a week" habit grew out of.

So I'm counting it as this week's work, because this week is when it actually became a business. I loaded the full 7,008-course database, wired in the real PDGA data, plotted every course on a live map, and gave it proper branding. It went from a parked idea to a real directory. That's why it sits at the very start of the timeline — the one that came before the rest.

The relaunch was mostly a data job. The hard part of a directory isn't the design — it's having real, structured, trustworthy data behind every single page. This week I loaded all 7,008 courses with their PDGA details, generated a page for every course and every state, and plotted the whole country on a live map.

Same systems as the rest of the portfolio: a fast static site, built with AI assistance, on cheap hosting — the same modest costs as the other builds. The difference is scale. Instead of a handful of calculator pages, this is thousands of programmatic pages, each one aimed at a real "[course name]" or "[city] disc golf" search.

One deliberate gap: there's no email capture on it yet. Right now it's a pure directory — get people to the course data first, worry about a list later. And no traffic yet either; it only went fully live today, so the entire SEO climb is still ahead of it.

It only went fully live today, so there's nothing to show yet — no real traffic, no rankings. What makes it worth watching is the surface area: thousands of course and state pages all hitting Google's index at once. I'll track impressions and clicks here as the first ones start to land. No projections — just the climb, in public.