Straight answers, including the unflattering ones.

$79, one time, through the app store. There is no second payment, no per course charge, and no subscription hiding behind a trial.

Once. The catch, if it is one, is that this is a small operation making an honest tool instead of a company that needs recurring revenue. If that ever changes, anybody who already bought it keeps what they bought.

Not decided yet. If we do one we'll say so on the email list before launch.

Apple and Google run their own refund process and we don't get in the way of it. We'd also like to know what you hated, because that's how it gets better.

No, and that's most of the point. GSPro, E6 Connect and Awesome Golf all want a Windows machine with a real graphics card. We don't.

A Garmin Approach R10 is what we build and test on, and used ones go for about $300. Other monitors may already work and we are looking for testers. The full status list is here.

About ten feet from the ball to the net, plus a few feet behind for the radar. A one car garage is fine. Pace it out before you buy a net.

Yes, that's how we use it. The R10 is radar so it doesn't care about light. String lights over the hitting area and you can play after dark, which is when you're actually going to play.

A cheap projector does the job at night. Daylight washes it out, so plan on evenings or playing off the phone.

Charge your phone. Screen on for a four hour round with the brightness up will flatten it. Get a battery pack.

Only for camera putting. One phone runs everything else. The putting phone does one simple job and can be old, slow or borrowed off whoever came over.

A friend called it "a bit fugly" and we put that on the front page, so take that as the answer.

You can see the hole, read the ground and tell where your ball went. The effort went into the ball flight and the numbers being right, because that's the part that makes you better. If you want photoreal, buy the expensive thing. It's genuinely lovely.

It'll show you the truth about your gaps, your dispersion and your strike, which is more than a bucket of range balls does. What you do with that is on you.

It's good for knowing your real carry numbers, finding the club you can't hit, and learning a course before you play it. It won't fix your swing on its own.

Yes. Everybody on one card, nine or eighteen, with proper notation. Circles for birdies, double circles for eagles, squares for bogeys. Go low and a flock of birds crosses the screen, which is ridiculous and we're keeping it.

You need a putting mat with cups and a phone on a tripod watching it. On the green it tells you out loud how far out you are and which cup to use, so you never touch a phone. Then you putt and it calls it in or out.

Or skip it and handle putts yourself.

Yes. The app runs a small web server, so anything on your wifi with a browser can open the round. TV, tablet, laptop, smart projector. Full card, last five shots and who hit them, and every number off the monitor.

Yes. For beating balls and checking numbers without playing a hole.

Twenty real courses, 342 holes: Austin and the Texas hill country, plus a set of courses you will have heard of. The full list with pars and yardages.

Ask. There's a form for it. We build them as we get time and we'd rather build the ones people want. Some don't have good enough public data, and we'll tell you if yours is one of them.

No. New courses show up for everyone who already bought it.

The layout, the elevation and the green shapes come from public lidar and aerial imagery, so they're as accurate as that data is. Some greens are flatter than the real thing because the data isn't fine enough to catch every roll. We're working on it.

Not to play. You need the phones on the same wifi for the watch screen and the putting camera, but that's your network, not the internet. Courses download once and then work offline.

It stays on your phone. The watch page is served by the phone in your yard, not by us. We're not running a cloud that collects your swings.

Send you one message when the app hits the stores. That's the whole plan. We don't sell it, rent it or start a newsletter with it.

A very small operation in Austin. It started because we wanted to play golf in the backyard at night without spending thousands of dollars, and it turned into something worth selling.

There's a Discord if you want to talk to us or to anybody else running one of these.

No. Courses are still going in and features are still landing. You'd be buying it early enough that what you say still changes what gets built.