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Web app and website for The Drop League

A 12 week weight-loss league for men, with private weekly weigh-ins, percentage based scoring and a live table. We designed the website and built the software that runs the season.

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The Drop League website homepage on a mobile phone, showing the season one league table

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Fantasy football, but for weight loss

The Drop League came to us with an idea rather than a product. Men are placed into teams, weigh in privately every Sunday and score points on the percentage of weight they lose, across a 12 week season with a league table and a Cup running alongside it. There was no site, no app and no way to run a season. We designed and built both halves: the public website that fills the league, and the software that operates it week by week.

A website built to fill the league

The site has one job: turn a curious visitor into a signed up player. We designed it dark and high contrast so the league table is the hero, and structured the page around the questions men actually ask before joining.

A live league table in the hero so the format explains itself
A six step "how it works" section from sign-up to season win
One clear price for a full season, with a founding member offer
An FAQ that answers the privacy, teams and fitness objections up front
Mobile first, so sign-up completes on a phone in a couple of minutes

The Drop League web app on a mobile phone, showing a player dashboard and the live team standings

The software that runs the season

Behind the site sits a custom web app. Players sign up, get placed into a team and submit a private weigh-in each Sunday. The app converts each submission into points based on the percentage lost, then recalculates the team league and the individual Cup ladder from the same data.

Everything a player needs sits on one screen: their position, their percentage change, how far ahead or behind their team is, and a prompt when a weigh-in is overdue. No spreadsheets, no manual scoring, no admin chasing people every Sunday night.

Private by design

The single biggest barrier to joining was the fear of being weighed in public, so we built the product around it. Raw weight stays inside a player's own account and is never shown to the team or the table. Scores publish as a percentage instead, which also makes the competition fair regardless of starting weight.

The dashboard shows starting weight, last submission and progress in one glance, with a one tap weigh-in each Sunday. Team WhatsApp groups handle the accountability between weigh-ins, so the app stays focused on scoring and standings.