Simple Tools Built for the Chaos of a Real Fair
Fairgrounds are busy places. Events are happening at the same time, volunteers are moving in different directions, visitors are trying to find food and friends, and competition officials need information quickly.
Northpoint Web Solutions builds lightweight, mobile-friendly apps designed specifically for those situations.
Our fair apps can work individually or as part of a larger custom fairground system. They are designed to be easy enough for volunteers and visitors to use without training, while giving fair staff the tools they need behind the scenes.
Cole’s Wacky Derby Timer
Demolition Derby Timing Without the Stopwatch Confusion
Cole’s Wacky Derby Timer was created to simplify one of the hardest jobs at a demolition derby: keeping track of multiple cars at the same time.
Instead of relying on one person with several stopwatches, individual officials can be assigned to specific cars while administrators oversee the entire heat.
The system can provide:
- Individual car timers
- Multiple officials working simultaneously
- Admin 1 and Admin 2 race control
- Forfeit and out-of-competition tracking
- Ability to return a car to competition
- Heat clock controls
- Flag and status notifications
- Announcer display
- Heat history
- Corrections and administrative review
- Mobile-friendly operation
The result: less confusion for officials and better information for the announcer and spectators.
Interested in a Derby Timer for Your Fair?
Northpoint can customize the system with your fair's branding, rules, event format and administrative needs.
Cole’s Wacky Mower Race Tracker
Give Every Racer Their Own Lap Counter
Mower racing gets surprisingly difficult to score once several machines are circling the track at the same time.
Cole’s Wacky Mower Race Tracker uses a distributed scoring system similar to our Derby Timer.
Instead of asking one person to watch every mower, individual lap counters can be assigned to racers. Each official simply watches their assigned mower and records each completed lap from their phone.
The system can include:
- Individual racer assignments
- One lap counter per racer
- Shared live race information
- Admin 1 and Admin 2 race controls
- Start, yellow flag, red flag and resume controls
- Automatic lap timestamps
- Lap times
- Live lap totals
- Live standings
- Duplicate-lap protection
- Correction and undo tools
- Announcer display
- Official race results
It turns several ordinary phones into a coordinated race-scoring crew.
Bringing Mower Racing to Your Fair?
We can configure the tracker around your classes, race rules, lap counts and event format.
Fair Food Finder
Help Visitors Find the Food They Came For
One of the most common questions at a fair is simple:
“Where can I get that?”
Fair Food Finder gives visitors a mobile-friendly directory of food vendors and menu items throughout the fairgrounds.
Visitors can search for a particular food rather than wandering from booth to booth.
Looking for:
Funnel cakes? Lemonade? Navajo tacos? Hamburgers? Cotton candy? Ice cream?
The app can tell them who has it and where to find them.
Fair Food Finder can include:
- Food vendor directory
- Search by food or menu item
- Vendor descriptions
- Menu listings
- Fairground locations
- Map integration
- Featured foods
- Vendor photos
- Hours
- Mobile-friendly interface
- Fair-specific branding
It also gives vendors another way to be discovered while helping visitors spend more time enjoying the fair.
Want a Food Finder for Your Fair?
We can build a branded food directory specifically for your fairgrounds and vendors.
Find My Fair Crew
“Where Are You Guys?”
Families and groups rarely stay together for an entire fair.
Someone is at the rides. Someone else is getting food. The kids went to another event. Someone is waiting near the arena.
Find My Fair Crew gives fair visitors a simple way to coordinate meetup locations without needing a complicated social networking app.
Visitors can create or join a crew and share meetup information with the people they're attending the fair with.
The system is designed around one simple problem:
Helping people find their people at the fair.
Possible features include:
- Create a fair crew
- Join with a simple crew code
- Set meetup locations
- Share locations with your group
- Fairground map integration
- Quick location updates
- Mobile-friendly interface
- No complicated account system
- Fair-specific branding
It fits naturally alongside the fair map, schedule and food finder.
One Fair. One Mobile Experience.
These applications can operate independently, but they become even more useful when combined.
A visitor could open one fair app and have access to:
Fair Schedule → Food Finder → Fair Map → Find My Crew → Competition Results → Event Information
Meanwhile, fair staff could use specialized administrative tools for:
Derbies → Mower Racing → Competitions → Vendors → Announcements → Event Management
That is the direction behind our Northpoint Fairgrounds platform: small, practical applications that work together instead of forcing a fair to adopt one enormous and complicated piece of software.
Built Around Your Fair
Every county fair operates differently.
We don't believe your fair should have to change its event simply because a piece of software was designed differently.
Northpoint Web Solutions can adapt these applications around your:
- Fair branding
- Competition rules
- Event schedule
- Fairground layout
- Vendors
- Staff
- Volunteers
- Announcers
- Existing website
Whether you need one small app or an entire digital fairground system, we can build it around the way your organization actually works.
Bring One of These Apps to Your Fair
If you're a fair board member, fair manager, event organizer or competition director and would like something similar for your event, we'd be glad to talk with you.
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