Oh boy! We're back baby! When I first purchased the RinkRater.com domain while sitting in the stands at the Enfield Twin Rinks, in CT, who knew what this app could become and how many families it would help. Back then, I worked with a great set of app coders who helped take my ideas and mockups to the goal line and we launched V1 on the App Store & Google Play Store. It was a crazy time as now the efforts to grow the app so that I could begin to monetize it through Marketing Partnerships became the focus, while letting the app do what it was designed to do - help our Hockey Community be more prepared before they hit the road to a new rink! Rink Rater became a go-to resource for hockey families everywhere. This was back in 2016 when I launched Rink Rater v1 and grew the app to roughly 10,000 active users, who'd written about the same number of reviews in the app.

Then when covid hit, it was about the same time where many 'libraries' inside the app started to become outdated, to a point that since it hadn't provided ROI as of yet, I couldn't justify throwing about $15,000 at an app refresh/rebuild to keep it going. Especially since rink-traffic really died down during covid. I still remember the moment I had to remove it from the App Store. It was heartbreaking.

Fast forward to today and my dream to bring Rink Rater back to life through building it myself using various AI models, has come full circle! It's been a wild ride of on-the-job-training in order to solo-build this web-based tool, but we're there and it works better than I had hoped! When you Ask TJ anything about any rink, anywhere, as long as there are reviews in that particular Review Category, he will provide you with a fun-to-read summary of all those reviews and provide you with the perfect insights before you drive 3 hours to a new rink! So cool!

Now partnering with FortheLoveofHockey11.com who was also generating rink reviews on their site, we're relaunching Rink Rater 2.0, which takes a combined 14,000 Rink Reviews and provides an incredible amount of information to a hockey family who is headed to X rink and needs to know, does this rink offer Skate Sharpening? How cold is it? Are there Concessions? I'm so excited to re-introduce you to the all new & improved RinkRater.com I encourage you to use it before you hit the road, leave your own reviews, tell everyone you know and we'll grow this community to what I know it can become! The #1 Hockey Rink Review App in the world! Let's go!