Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams

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Post by matdehaast » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 5:25 PM UTC

iEchoic wrote: post #13

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #10

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This looks really cool! This is not super related to your business, but do you have any recommendations for how to get started with frontend dev as a beginner? I usually do backend/infra stuff, and the frontend world is overwhelming - particularly CSS. Do you have any tips on the best way to learn CSS? And do you think using React + MobX allows faster dev compared to vanilla javascript?

Thanks! I think the best way to get started right now is to grab the official Facebook create-react-app package, pick something you think would be fun to build, and just start trying to build it and googling/asking questions along the way. The first project might suck, but that's okay. You'll pick it up fast, and the next will be better. React + MobX is my favorite way to build frontend apps now, and MobX does help a…

iEchoic congrats on the new design! Very slick and smooth.

Just a quick question. Are you using CRA with SSR (ie with nextjs or other solution?) for the new site? Or is it just a large SPA served from static html,js,css bundled?

Thanks Matt

Re: Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams

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Post by iEchoic » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

matdehaast wrote: post #61

iEchoic wrote: post #13

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Thanks! I think the best way to get started right now is to grab the official Facebook create-react-app package, pick something you think would be fun to build, and just start trying to build it and googling/asking questions along the way. The first project might suck, but that's okay. You'll pick it up fast, and the next will be better. React + MobX is my favorite way to build frontend apps now, and MobX does help a…

iEchoic congrats on the new design! Very slick and smooth. Just a quick question. Are you using CRA with SSR (ie with nextjs or other solution?) for the new site? Or is it just a large SPA served from static html,js,css bundled? Thanks Matt

Thanks! No SSR here, just an SPA (static html/js/css) served up via CDN. We do use code splitting to load bundles progressively to keep the bundle size down.

Re: Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams

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Post by originalsimba » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 5:56 PM UTC

Only a tiny number of games represented. The idea is cool but to really shine it should not require official support of specific games, and the officially supported list should be a lot longer. Where's Day of Infamy? Rainbow Six? RTS games? I'm assuming this list will grow with time. If you add new games every day I think that would reflect positively on your product.

To be honest, a guild which is serious about itself would be much better served by their own custom website in my opinion. I'm just trying to gently say is there really a practical use for (yet another) of these websites?

Re: Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams

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Post by originalsimba » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

kamac wrote: post #25

I've seen it before and I think it looks slick. I have one suggestion or maybe observation. Finding a team currently requires to manually apply by browsing through the list. Whenever I see a team with one member inside (and that's how many teams look loke), I don't feel like applying, because there's got to be something off about it, right? So I don't apply. And then, there's this thing where I would have to apply to…

A lot of clans will use sites like this for recruiting but only their recruiting officer will sign up so that might explain why you'd only see 1 member.