How the Room works
A Room is one mentor's virtual mentorship space. Everything he makes for his members lands there, and everything your athlete sends him starts there. This is what's actually in it.
Most of what follows is your athlete's screen — the Room is their place. What you get when you open it is a different screen, and it's the last section on this page.
Joining is a door, not a dashboard
One screen before anything else: who they're with, what they just joined, and the next three things that happen. Each carries a real time — or no time at all. A day and an hour appear only when the mentor has actually scheduled the drop or the live session behind them.
Meet the mentor — his welcome film, when he's recorded one. Send him thirty seconds of film. Tell him how you're going into this. Ask him your first question. The task happens in the step: the real uploader is right there, not a link to somewhere else you have to go find.
Every step with a row behind it stays unticked until that row comes back from the server. If a save didn't land, the step says so instead of congratulating your athlete for it, and the summary at the end restates only what actually happened.
Close the tab and come back tomorrow and the door is still there — one tap past it lands on the first step they haven't finished. Skip the film and Menty writes a reminder to a real bell, then says exactly whose phone it went to — or that it couldn't reach one, rather than promising a nudge nobody will get. And in the seconds between paying and the membership landing, the Room holds the moment instead of bouncing a family that just paid back to the storefront.
Your athlete can tell when their mentor is in the room
Not “someone will check in later.” The Room's header carries a presence line, and it's real time.
While their mentor has the members' Room open on his end, the header says he's here now. It isn't a login timestamp dressed up: it's a signal his own session sends, resent every minute while his tab is in front of him, and verified on our side so that nobody else can claim it.
The line falls back to when he was last in — “here 2h ago” — and disappears once that's about a week old. Stale presence reads worse than none, so the Room shows none.
A drop published, a question asked, a win posted, a member joining — the Room re-reads itself from the server when any of it happens. A burst of activity becomes one refresh, not twenty.
The mentor gets the mirror image: a count of how many people are in the Room with him. A number, never a name — the athletes on the other side of that line are minors, and nothing about who they are travels on it.
One box, one Ask button. The question posts as a real row and comes back carrying a real status: queued for the drop, or answered in one. When the mentor points a question at a film that's still on the page, that status becomes a link straight to it. He answers by name — that's the whole promise the wall is built around, and it's the part the database can actually keep.
The wall is shared. Every member of the Room can read what's on it, and Menty says so rather than implying a private line that doesn't exist. Older questions load on demand; the mentor can take a post down.
Made the team. First dunk. A personal best that took all season. Members post wins and celebrate each other's — the count moves the instant they tap and settles against the server behind them.
The mentor can put his own name on one, and it shows as exactly that: he celebrated this. The wall carries the Room's real member count, not a decorative one.
A new Room doesn't pretend to be a crowd
Below three members there is no ask wall and no wins wall. Not an empty one — absent. What's there instead says why you're early rather than why the room is quiet: your athlete has the mentor's full attention, and every question they ask goes straight to him. The question box still works, posts through exactly the same path, and their own questions come back with their real status.
The walls open on their own at three — three members, or three different people having posted. When the third member is what opened them, the Room tells everyone so instead of leaving two boards to appear from nowhere. A 1-on-1 mentorship has no walls at any size: a community of one isn't a community, so Menty doesn't draw one.
Same every week, so you stop having to check
A card called How this runs sits in every group Room and spells out the week for its members:
A clock shows on that card only when a real scheduled drop supplies one; with nothing scheduled it states the rhythm and stops. There is no promised turnaround on film, because nothing in Menty lets a mentor set one — so the card describes the round trip instead of inventing a deadline on his behalf. And if a week ever comes up bare, Menty re-lands the last film with a note rather than leaving the Room empty. That's the app's promise, not his.
This week's drop, and the ones behind it
The current drop sits at the top of the Room, badged for what it actually is — new this week, the latest one with the date it landed, or carried over from last week. The eight before it live in an Earlier drops list that doesn't load a single video until you open one, and those are the films an answered question can point back at.
Film goes in, coaching comes back, and the whole trip is visible
They sent film. The mentor watched it — with the time he did it. Reviewed, with his notes timestamped to the clip they belong to. The round trip is on screen rather than in an inbox, and the next clip goes from the same place.
The Room labels every zone with who can read it, in plain words — because that's the question a fourteen-year-old actually has:
That middle caption names the parents on purpose. You can read the film and the notes, so the Room says so out loud to your athlete instead of promising them a privacy it doesn't have.
You get your own screen, not your kid's
Open the Room as a parent and you aren't walked through your athlete's four steps, and you don't get handed their second person either. You get a different view, and it says so in its own header: read-only, on the light surface every other parent screen uses, written in the third person — what your athlete did, your mentor's note in his own voice, and whether it's working. There is not one control on it that would post or send as your kid.
Rooms belong to mentors
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