About

Shinny is a coordination tool for adult pickup hockey across the US and Canada. Follow the rinks you skate at, get pinged when sessions open, RSVP, post your own. Goalies can filter to net-openings only. That’s it.

It’s run by Bristol-Jones Group, LLC out of Nashville, TN. We skate adult pickup at the local rinks. We’ve been the captain at 4pm hunting a sub-goalie and we built the tool we wanted.

Cost

Zero. There is no paid tier, no Pro version, no plan to introduce one. Adult hockey already runs $1,500–$3,000 a year before replacement gear. Charging for a coordination layer would be tone-deaf.

The infrastructure costs about the same as a sharpening per month. Cloudflare hosts the site, Supabase runs the database, Resend handles email. Rink data is OpenStreetMap. Rink and league managers verify their own listings. We pay the cloud bill. That’s the entire P&L.

If running Shinny ever requires adding ads, selling data, or paywalling goalie alerts, we’ll close the doors instead. The principle outranks the project.

What you can do here

Follow rinks. Get notified when sessions open.
Filter alerts to goalie-only or specific skill bands.
Post a session in under a minute; RSVPs land in one screen.
Claim a rink. Post your open-skate schedule. Read your reviews.
Announce league signups; the dispatcher targets the right age groups + rinks.

It’s a coordination layer, not a social network. We’re not trying to keep you scrolling.

The name

“Shinny” is the older Canadian word for pickup hockey. Roots in Scottish shinty going back to the 1700s. Etymology here if you’re curious. The short version: it predates organized hockey by a century, and it’s a better fit than “DropInIce” or whatever else was on the shortlist.

Contact

Bug reports go through the button on every page (it pings every admin). For everything else, admin@shinny.io. Replies come from a human.