Pool
A trust-first lottery pool manager for friends, coworkers, and families who buy Powerball or Florida Lotto tickets together and need a clean record of who paid what and how any winnings split.
Office teams, friend groups, and families who share lottery ticket purchases
- Pool creation with member list, contribution amounts, and agreed split rules recorded with timestamps
- Per-draw 'who was in this pool' snapshot with photo of the physical ticket
- Auto-generated split sheet for any win, with downloadable evidence for tax and dispute purposes
- Optional reminders to renew the pool and rotate who buys the ticket
Big jackpots drive sudden, informal pools among coworkers and friends — but when a group ticket wins, missing records create real legal and friendship problems that an app can prevent.
Real demand confirmed by multiple office-pool lawsuits (Windsor $1M, BC $2M) and at least 5 competing apps already serving the use case (The Lottery Pool, LotteryPoolManager.app, Lottery.camp, OfficeLotteryPools.com, LuckMaker3000).Windsor man reaches settlement in years-long dispute over $1M lottery pool ↗The Lottery Pool - App Store ↗
Saturated with near-identical competitors already offering AI ticket scanning, member management, prize splits, and payout calculations (e.g., LotteryPoolManager.app lists PowerPool and MegaPool as live products). PoolApp even branded by Atlantic Lottery as official tool.Lottery Pool Manager — Run Your Pool Like a Pro ↗Group Lottery Play | Lottery Pools | Atlantic Lottery ↗Lottery Camp - Manage Your Lottery Pools Together ↗
Direct competitor prices at only $4/mo Basic and $8/mo Pro with a free ad-supported tier, indicating low willingness to pay; pool participants are casual users with no recurring budget and the value is only felt around huge jackpots.Lottery Pool Manager pricing tiers ↗Office Lottery Pool Software: Automate Rules, Tickets & Results ↗
Demand is jackpot-spike-driven and episodic; once a group wins (or loses interest) engagement collapses, and disputes can drag years (4-year Windsor case) — retention is structurally weak and tied to a declining/flat lottery market rather than expanding.Windsor lottery group members settle dispute over 1-million jackpot ↗
Essentially a CRUD app — member lists, payment tracking, ticket image capture, draw results lookup, and a split calculator; trivially buildable with off-the-shelf lottery result APIs and no regulated infrastructure.Lottery Pool Manager — Run Your Pool Like a Pro ↗