We're live on Product Hunt today

There is a version of this story that starts in a cold sports hall on a Tuesday night. A phone is taped to a tripod at half court, a laptop is balanced on a folding chair, and a group chat full of parents keeps asking the same question: "what's the score?" That moment is where ScoreLayer really began, and it is still the thing we build for.

Today we are doing something a little different. ScoreLayer is live on Product Hunt.

If you have never been to Product Hunt, it is where a lot of people who love new software go to find the tools other makers are shipping. Getting listed there puts ScoreLayer in front of streamers, producers, and hobbyists who have never heard of us, and who might have spent all of last season calling the score off-camera because they assumed a proper scoreboard was out of reach. So if you have a minute, come and take a look. Leaving a comment about the sport you stream genuinely helps us decide what to build next.

Here is the short version of what we are, for anyone arriving from the launch.

What ScoreLayer actually does

ScoreLayer puts a broadcast-style scoreboard on your live stream, with no software to install. You open a control panel in your browser, add a single transparent browser source to OBS, Streamlabs, or vMix, and the scoreboard appears on your stream. You control the score, the clock, and the team names from your phone or laptop on the sideline. The overlay updates the instant you tap, with no refresh and no second machine.

That is the whole pitch: a scoreboard that looks like it belongs on television, run by one person with the gear they already own.

Why we did not build one generic overlay

The thing that surprised us most while building ScoreLayer is how differently each sport keeps score. A soccer clock counts up and adds stoppage time. American football needs down and distance, possession, and a clock that stops every few seconds. Basketball tracks team fouls and then flips into the bonus. Tennis has its own scoring language entirely, with games inside sets inside matches.

A single overlay that tries to cover all of that ends up serving none of it well. So every sport in ScoreLayer gets controls and a scorebug built around how that game is actually played:

• American football, with down and distance, possession, and timeouts.
• Soccer, with a count-up clock, added time, and red cards.
• Basketball, with quarters, team fouls, and an automatic bonus indicator.
• Tennis, with set-by-set scoring, seedings, and country flags.
• Pool, billiards, and snooker, with race-to scoring and frame counts.

Each one ships with more than one visual style, so a Sunday league basketball game can wear an ESPN-style bug and a tournament final can wear something more editorial. You switch between them from the control panel and the live overlay changes on its own.

A matchday, start to finish

Here is what using it actually looks like. You arrive at the venue, open the control panel on your phone, and pick your sport. You type in the two team names, drop in a logo for each side, and set the colours to match the kits. That takes about a minute.

Back at your streaming machine, you add one browser source in OBS and paste in the overlay link. Set the width to 1920 and the height to 1080 so it matches your canvas exactly, and the scoreboard snaps into place over your camera feed. Nothing else to configure.

Then the game starts and you barely touch the laptop again. A basket goes in, you tap 2PT. A quarter ends, the clock resets itself. A team crosses the foul limit and the BONUS indicator lights up on its own, so everyone watching at home knows what the next foul means without you saying a word. The person on the camera never has to think about graphics, and the people watching finally know the score.

That gap, between "we are filming the game" and "this looks like a broadcast," is the entire reason ScoreLayer exists.

Built for the people actually doing the streaming

We did not build this for broadcast trucks with a crew of ten. We built it for the club volunteer, the coach's partner running the camera, and the small-event producer covering a regional final with a laptop and a dream. Those are the people who care most about the score being visible, and who have been least served by the expensive, complicated tools that already exist.

That focus shows up in small decisions everywhere. The clock has keyboard shortcuts so you can keep one hand free. Scoring is a single tap, not mental arithmetic. Team logos and colours upload in seconds. And the free tier is genuinely free, not a trial that expires the week before your big game. You can create a scoreboard, add it to OBS, and go live tonight without entering a card.

If you want to see it in action before signing up, the examples gallery has live overlays for every sport, and the OBS setup guide walks through adding one to your stream step by step.

The streams this is already on

The best part of the last year has been watching where ScoreLayer actually turns up. It has run on Norwegian flag football, on grassroots youth soccer streamed for grandparents two countries away, on local pool tournaments where the frame count matters as much as the score, and on school basketball played in half-empty gyms on a Friday night. None of those events had a budget for broadcast graphics. All of them looked dramatically more professional the moment a real scoreboard sat on the feed.

That range is the whole point. The same tool that dresses up a Sunday league final also works for a serious tournament with team records and a match banner. You are not renting a stripped-down version of something built for television. You are getting the thing itself, sized for the game in front of you.

What being on Product Hunt means for us

A launch like this is not really about a single day of traffic. It is about meeting the wider community of streamers and makers, hearing which sports and features people want, and finding the folks who will push the product in directions we have not thought of yet. Some of the best ideas in ScoreLayer so far came from a coach emailing to say "this is close, but my sport does X." Product Hunt is a chance to have a lot more of those conversations at once.

We are also not finished. Hockey and volleyball are in development, and every sport we ship makes the next one faster to build. The roadmap is shaped almost entirely by what people tell us they are streaming, which is exactly why a day like today matters to us.

So consider this an invitation. If you stream any kind of sport, or you know someone who does, come and find us on Product Hunt. Tell us what you are covering and what would make your stream better. We read everything, and a surprising amount of it ends up in the product.

And if you are new here and just want to try the thing, there is no better time. Pick your sport, create a free scoreboard, and put a real score on your next stream.

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