u/Baraga91

A little peak behind the screen on what we're working on now that the second gameday has come and gone!

I've got several projects that are in/near open beta, with a public release planned for one (the football prediction game I shared last week), and I'm bumping into a problem that I think a lot of us have.

Once you've built something, how do you reach an audience beyond immediate friends & family? Especially without becoming part of the ad/spam crowd.

I was able to share it with a relevant community here on Reddit after talking to the mods, but that's not very repeatable (because again, spam) and quite time consuming...

Any tips?

I've got several projects that are in/near open beta, with a public release planned for one (the football prediction game I shared last week), and I'm bumping into a problem that I think a lot of us have.

Once you've built something, how do you reach an audience beyond immediate friends & family? Especially without becoming part of the ad/spam crowd.

I was able to share it with a relevant community here on Reddit after talking to the mods, but that's not very repeatable (because again, spam) and quite time consuming...

Any tips?

The World Cup really woke up the football bug for me, and after weeks of following every game and adjusting the predictions in our friendly bracket, there suddenly was... a void?

Can't have that, can we?

Fast forward a week and I'm building a tool to keep the brackets going.

Another week and it's looking prettier.

Another week and it's looking like something I'd love to share beyond the friend group.

And now we're here. There's still a lot of tinkering that needs to be done, but it's time I let the untamed masses have a go and see what works and what breaks. There are feedback buttons everywhere, so please don't hesitate to use them if you see something that doesn't work, could be better or is just plain ugly.

For now, it's just the Belgian Pro League, but by the end of the first test I hope to implement other leagues as well.

Thanks in advance for any feedback, and good luck with the first matchdays!

-Baraga

PS: There's a mystery football shirt to be won by the highest ranked player, but for now that's limited to EU-based people, sorry 🙂

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Hey iedereen

Na het WK kon ik de pronostiek-sfeer niet echt loslaten, en dus ben ik de afgelopen weken bezig geweest met een eigen prono-appje in elkaar te steken.

Nu lijkt alles te werken, zit er een leuke mechanic in en wil ik het testen met de beste competitie ter wereld: onze eigen pintjesleague.

Ik heb het met de mods afgetoetst en zij leggen de bal (heh) volledig in jullie kamp: vandaar de poll :)

Er worden geen data verkocht, geen geld gevraagd, geen credit cards of andere nonsens, en wie eind september de meeste punten verzameld heeft krijgt een mystery voetbalshirt opgestuurd (binnen de EU, want allez kom, verzendkosten een beetje beperken e :p).

Ik weet eerlijk gezegd nog niet wat het einddoel van de app is, maar voorlopig is het een uit de hand gelopen passieprojectje.

Laat maar weten als ik het mag delen, tot die tijd blijf ik trouw mijn Sorry'tjes zeggen aan het altaar van de Rudi.

Met LosKampioenige groetjes

Baraga

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I'm moving one of my projects quite rapidly from simple proof of concept to Open Beta, and it has made me quite worried about things like copyright, terms, conditions, requirements, legal issues, etc.

How worried should I be about this when making a project public?

As a European, I'm shielded from the American legal culture, but I'm sure there are plenty of pitfalls as well.

Does anyone have any experience, tips, tricks, sources?

Thanks in advance!

Ok, so very briefly summarized: I lost access to my old account because Facebook login stopped working and I no longer have access to the e-mail address that's behind all that.

So I just made a new account because I'm training for long distance hikes, and yesterday's training went off without a hitch.

Yesterday evening, I suddenly got the notification that "Strava has no access to the servers" when trying to access the app, which persists to this morning.

Can't submit a support request, because you have to log in to submit one of those, and the login screen just resets whenever I try logging in to the website - both on mobile and on desktop. Help?