We Built a Cricket Speed Gun From a Phone Camera and Got the Physics Wrong
Every cricketer has asked the same question after a good spell. How fast was that?
The honest answer has always been a guess. A coach with a stopwatch, a teammate saying "that looked quick", or nothing at all. A Pocket Radar costs around $400. A Stalker, the kind professional scouts carry, runs up to $1,200. For most of the 2.5 billion people who follow this sport, that is not a purchase. It is a fantasy.
Baseball has a dozen consumer tools for measuring pitch speed. Cricket has effectively none.
So we are building one. My name is Abdulbasit. I am 19, and I am building Paceball alongside Mustafa Asim for RevenueCat Shipaton 2026. Neither of us has shipped a mobile app before. We are both web developers. This is day 14 of 33.
The following is an account of what the first two weeks actually looked like, including the part...
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