u/KissP

Hey everyone! I’m building BeachLog, a private beach journal for tracking the beaches you visit.

You can save beach details, notes, photos, ratings, favourites, packing checklists, yearly stats, map-link imports, and backups. BeachLog Pro adds extra features like multiple photos, collections, comparisons, and custom checklists.

I’m opening a closed Android test and would love honest feedback on usability, bugs, and feature ideas.

To join:

1. Join the tester group: https://groups.google.com/g/8digits-app-tests
2. After joining, opt in to the test here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.ochodigits.beachlog
3. Install BeachLog from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ochodigits.beachlog then actively open the app daily.

Please use the same Google account for all three steps. You’ll need to remain in the tester group to keep access.

The app does not require an account, and beach data is stored locally on your device. Thanks for helping me build BeachLog in public!

Hey everyone! I’m building BeachLog, a simple private app for keeping track of beaches you visit or plan to. Where i live there are a lot of little beaches and I wanted an app to get on top of where we were and where we want to be.

You can save beach details, notes, photos, ratings, visits, and favourites—all stored locally on your device. It also includes packing checklists, yearly stats, map-link imports, backups, and optional Pro features.

I’m looking for Android testers to try the first build and share honest feedback:

Why not friends and family? Because I want real feedback and suggestions.

Is anything confusing or broken?

Which feature would make it more useful?

Any crashes, slow screens, or rough edges?

Does the app feel useful after adding a few beaches?

Join the Google Play internal test here:

Please open the link with the same Google account you use on your Android phone, opt in, then install through Google Play.

No account is required in the app, and your beach journal stays on your device. Thanks—every bit of feedback helps a lot.

TL;DR: Last Friday at my LGS, a stranger handed me an optimized Commander deck for my first real pod game, I won, and now I understand why you people spend so much money on this.

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Friday evening was the last time I'd be going to our local game store. We move on Monday, a couple hours away, so this was the goodbye to the place where we sit around, play games and just hang out.

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A couple of months ago I played my first ever game of Magic there and got hooked immediately. I wanted to start small - knowing full well I'd snowball into it - so I picked up a Foundations Starter Collection and a Lord of the Rings Starter Kit. Plenty of cards to build a few casual decks at home and have fun with friends.

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I wasn't expecting to play Magic that evening. There's usually only one guy there who plays, and he's out of the country - he's the one who got me into it and the only person I can sit down with for a proper game using my homebuilt [[Ovika, Enigma Goliath]] or [[Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim]] decks.

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But as soon as we walked in, a guy I'd met exactly once and never actually spoken to came up and asked if I wanted to be the fourth in their pod.

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Hell yeah.

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Then they mentioned it's Bracket 3. My homebuilt decks went straight back in the bag.

The same guy - whose name I still don't know - immediately came to the rescue and offered me a choice from his collection. On his recommendation I sat down with [[Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls]] going up against [[The Tenth Doctor]], a Slivers deck, and one I honestly can't remember.

This was my first time piloting a properly optimized deck, and the difference is hard to overstate. It just... flowed. Options every turn, combos coming online from turn 2, and I slowly but very surely became the problem at the table. A few well-timed early removals, some decent decisions on my part, and it ended in a pretty comfortable win - much more thanks to the deck than anything I did.

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Two things stuck with me after:

- The MTG community is something else. It's almost automatic that someone just hands you a deck worth a couple hundred euros so that everyone at the table has a good time. That's rare.

- Higher bracket decks genuinely change how the game feels. The gameplay loop is just more interesting when the engine actually runs.

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Now I'm curious - what's your favorite Commander deck and why? Trying to figure out what to actually build next.