Released my boardgame community web app
Hi all!
I recently released my open source app
Here's the link: https://www.aintboard.org/
I'm mainly targeting Filipinos for now, but anyone can join
It's for sharing reviews and strategies. In the future, I will add a feature for those reviewers to get paid by paypal.
Apart from that, you can make and join challenges, basically a challenge can be any user made achievement that other users can earn and claim. Claiming challenges gives you powerups, which u can buy avatars from.
So for anyone of you who likes playing boardgames, I hope you can use my app
Once I get many users and content, I may start adding ads for monetization and to maintain the site
Development back story:
I started this app a year ago cos I used to be so in love with boardgames. I recruited designers and intern programmers to build it. After some time, I stopped developing, but now I decided to remove unnecessary or "complicated" features and make it simple so I can release it.
Please do let me know what you think about it,
Cheers
Hi Faith, fellow boardgamer and game designer here. The idea of your site is fairly simple, it's a local version of the big site, boardgamegeek (BGG), but of course without all of the features. I noticed that you posted this in July, it is now September, and there are no other game reviews on the site. I don't know if you have decided to quit the project or still move on, but you do have to ask yourself if what you are doing is still going to work. You have mentioned your target audience is mostly Filipinos, but (correct me if I'm wrong) since most are fluent English speakers, does your site have any advantage over BGG? You may want to ask yourself this question and decide if your audience needs to be tweaked a bit, or if the purpose of the site needs some adjustment. Good luck!
Hi Thanks for the message. The passion of playing boardgames has died down and has affected my passion for this project too. This was a good playground for me to learn NextJS and build a site from scratch. I do wanted to add more features like buy/sell, in case the community aspect don't work out, not sure when I'll work on this again hehe