The ski school app — at 9:15 the group is at the meeting point, not in line.
Monday morning at the desk: thirty families want the same four answers — which lesson, which group, which instructor, which meeting point. Your own app answers all four on Sunday evening and speaks up when the mountain changes its mind.
30-second check · free, no strings attached · answer usually the same day
Tap around — this is roughly how your future app will feel.
What should your ski school app do?
5 questions · 30 seconds · then a concrete proposal with a fixed price.
What the app for your ski school can do.
Tap through the building blocks — on the right you see how it looks in your app. You pick what actually helps your front desk and your instructors.
Lesson picked, group assigned — and the meeting point is set from the couch.
Pick a lesson as if you were the Harpers the night before the first lesson day. On the right you watch what lands on the phone in the same second.
Lessons from Monday
Without an app: call the school at four on Sunday, then stand in line at 8:40 on Monday — 25 minutes for the same four answers. And you hear about the delay once you are already at the meeting point.
Meet-up time on Monday morning
Group 3, Instructor Ryan, Meeting Point 2 · bunny hill — that is everything anyone asks at the desk on Monday morning. It is already on the phone Sunday evening.
On the hill the app changes nothing: the teaching, the group size and the call on whether you ski stay with your team. It takes the organizing off your front desk, nothing more.
Same hill, same team — only Monday morning belongs to you again.
Eight kids, eight families, one sign — and half the school is still standing at the desk.
Lesson, group and meeting point were decided Sunday evening. The app carries them to where they are needed on Monday morning: onto the parents' phones.
What an app really changes in a ski school.
A ski school sells the same thing every Sunday evening for four months: lesson, group, meeting point, gear. And every Monday morning the same line forms at the desk, because thirty families want to hear the same four answers one more time — while the kids fidget beside them in ski boots. Your own app changes nothing about the teaching and nothing about the hill. It takes Monday morning off the desk.
What 25 minutes at the desk cost
Run the Monday math: 280 kids spread across 34 lessons, about eight to a group. A good share of those families are at the desk before nine, roughly 25 minutes each, for four answers that were settled long ago: which lesson, which group, which instructor, which meeting point. Put that in the app on Sunday evening and the wait on Monday is not shorter, it is zero. And the two people behind the desk spend that same hour doing what they are actually there for: rebookings, rentals, and calming the family whose four-year-old will not let go of dad.
The second effect is the one you can see on the bank statement. Every fourth child adds the rental inside the app — 70 packages a week at $42, across 16 lesson weeks about $47,000 in a season. This is not revenue out of thin air: part of it would have been booked at the counter anyway. What is new is that the sizes are already entered, the package is out with a name tag from 3 PM on Sunday, and nobody has to choose between the line and the boot fitting on Monday. That is exactly why a family says yes more often than it does standing in line.
On the mountain the instructor decides. At the desk, organization decides.
“Our guests are here for a week — will they really download an app?”
We hear that objection at every ski school, and it has a true core: nobody installs something for a single morning. Except a ski trip is not a spontaneous thing. The family booked lodging and travel weeks in advance and often the lift tickets too — the lesson is the last open item, and it gets handled in the evening in the living room, not on Monday in the snow. Whoever booked by then has the app on the phone when it counts: Sunday evening and Monday morning.
On top of that comes something that sets ski schools apart from most trades: your guests come back. Book the same week a second winter and the sizes, the group and the child's progress are already there — three taps instead of a phone call. In practice a QR code on the booking confirmation and one at the desk is enough. The app does not have to reach everybody. It has to reach the people who would otherwise be standing in line at a quarter to nine on Monday.
Four months of season — and where the app stops
The honest question first: does this pay off for December through March? Yes, but not because the app does anything in the summer — because it costs nothing in the summer. It stays in both stores, you update prices and lessons in the fall in a few minutes, and the next winter it starts with last season's regulars already on board. Only the timing matters: about two weeks to a first version, plus review by Apple and Google. Ask in late summer and you are online before the first snow; start in January and you only get the tail of the season.
And the boundary that matters to us: this app does not ride along on the hill. It takes on no responsibility for safety, it does not track children, it does not replace an instructor and it does not decide whether you ski in a storm — that stays with your school director and the resort. What it does is narrow on purpose: take the booking, sort the groups, show the meeting point, get the rental ready and push one change in seconds to exactly the eight families it concerns. That sounds smaller than it is — it is the whole of Monday morning.
How many families are at your desk at a quarter to nine on Monday — and how many rental packages get lost in that shuffle? Tell us, and we will run the numbers with yours.
What does the rental bring, in numbers?
≈ $47,000 in rental revenue per season — from gear that is already sitting in the shop.
To be straight about it: part of that would be booked at the counter too. What is new is that the sizes are already in the app, the package is set out on Sunday and nobody has to choose between the line and the boot fitting on Monday — which is why a family says yes more often than it does standing in line.
Half a minute · you end up with a proposal and a fixed price
One project. Every device.
This is how the listing for your app will look once we submit it. Type in your name, pick a color — the preview on the right picks up both straight away.
Little Rippers · ages 4–6Mon–Fri mornings · meet-up 9:15 AM$189
Advanced · ages 7–12Mon–Fri all day$245
Kids ski packageSkis, boots, helmet · lesson week$42Instructor Ryan · yellow bibs · 8 kids
Group 3 starts 5 minutes later
The meeting point stays: Meeting Point 2, now 9:20 AM.
6 new lesson photos
Group 3 — bunny hill and Sunny Ridge.
Book lessons at Blue Spruce Ski School from the couch and save the rental sizes once — by Sunday evening the group, the instructor and the meeting point are in the app. If something changes on the mountain in the morning, the message reaches your phone before you leave the hotel. On Friday the certificate and the week's photos are waiting. more
Sunday evening it was all in the app: Group 3, Meeting Point 2, Instructor Ryan. The winter before we stood 25 minutes at the desk while the kids melted down in their ski boots.
Entered the sizes once and both packages were set out Sunday with name tags. The alert that said the group starts five minutes later came at 8:52 — very handy. I would like the lesson photos in a higher resolution though.
Version 1.2
Meet-up alerts: start time and meeting point for your group — a change only reaches the families it concerns.
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Your app goes out the very same way: under your name, with your logo.
Who actually builds your app?
No off-the-shelf builder, no chain of anonymous contractors: an owner-run development studio that designs, codes and looks after apps for ski schools itself.
Have a nice day — an owner-run development studio: the person you deal with is the developer himself.
Lesson booking, meeting point or rental — which one first?
Tell us in 30 seconds what slows your front desk down most on Monday morning — you get a concrete proposal with a fixed price.
Free, no strings attached · usually an answer the same day
From the idea to your app in the stores.
Tell us about your ski school
A short conversation: lessons, groups, rental, when the desk gets tight. That is all we need from you.
You get a proposal and a fixed price
Concrete and readable: what the app does, how it looks, what it costs — in writing.
We build, you watch
You see a preview on your own phone early and tell us what should work differently in a ski school day.
Your app goes into the stores
We handle publishing on the App Store and Google Play — under your name, in time for the first snow.
We stay on it
Updates, new blocks, help in the middle of the season — you are never left alone with the technology.
What does it all cost?
There is no hourly billing and nothing added on afterwards: you choose a package, you get a fixed price for it, and you know in advance what is included. Even Start is a complete app — the larger packages add features and deeper technology, not better quality.
Included everywhere: App Store, Google Play and the browser — along with hosting, updates and support. The only difference is the feature set.
Start
A complete app, not a stripped-down version
from $4,000
ready to submit in 2 weeks
- In the App Store, on Google Play and in the browser
- Published under your own name
- Every core feature of your trade, fully built
- Push messages to your customers
- Hosting, updates and support included
Business
More features, more automation
from $10,000
usually 3–4 weeks
- Everything in Start
- Extra modules, cut to fit how you work
- Admin area: edit content and offers yourself
- Reminders and routines that run on their own
Complete
Woven tightly into your systems
from $20,000
from 4 weeks, depending on scope
- Everything in Business
- Connections to your point of sale, calendar, inventory system and more
- AI features, custom interfaces, an area for your staff
- Continuous further development
Rather not pay a large sum up front? Then subscribe.
from $199 / month
- We build it, run it and maintain it; you pay monthly
- Updates, new features and support are part of it
- The source code stays with us at first and becomes yours once it is paid off in full
Depending on the feature set, projects land between $4,000 and roughly $30,000 — how far your app goes is your call. We name the fixed price after a short conversation, free and without obligation.
The three packages are typical sizes; anything in between is possible too. The math: base package $4,000, each additional module about +$900, each connection to an existing system about +$2,500. The shows what every single feature costs.
Where do the speed and the price come from? We work with current tooling, AI included — the time we save goes back into the price, the care stays handmade.
Common questions about a ski school app
The answer that matters most: your fixed price.
Five questions, half a minute — free and without obligation.
At a quarter to nine on Monday nobody is standing at the desk.
A free first conversation — no sales pressure, an honest proposal with a fixed price for your ski school.
We usually reply the same day · your fixed price comes in writing — then take your time to decide.
Your ski school app
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