Looks slick as hell and I love the dark color scheme. It's always surprising how many gamers just hate light color schemes. Good work!
Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams
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#12This looks awesome! I'm looking forward to using Guilded to find teammates for AoE!
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#13We just launched a redesign and ground-up rewrite of Guilded, which makes it easier for gamers to build and organize teams. There are also a bunch of of new features, like fully-featured forums, customizable team dashboards, team streams, and team rosters. On the tech side, the frontend was all written in React 16 + MobX. Besides the redesign and new features, there were a lot of technical goals related to the fronte…
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 lot in terms of development speed, maintainability, and performance, in my experience. If you're brand new to frontend development, I wouldn't worry too much about it, though - it can be best to start with the basics initially.
Re: Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams
#14Looks slick as hell and I love the dark color scheme. It's always surprising how many gamers just hate light color schemes. Good work!
Definitely - our first version had a lot of white, and also a lot of feedback asking us to make it not-white.
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#15This looks awesome! I'm looking forward to using Guilded to find teammates for AoE!
Thank you! AoE was my first online game ever, and still my favorite RTS of all time (sorry Starcraft, I love you too), so it was especially fun to add that one.
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#16Looks slick as hell and I love the dark color scheme. It's always surprising how many gamers just hate light color schemes. Good work!
Definitely - our first version had a lot of white, and also a lot of feedback asking us to make it not-white.
Sounds like a decent opportunity to provide a user option for light or dark themes in their user settings? Maybe even a middle ground grey theme as well?
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#17I wrote about this Guilded update for the Initialized blog, because I'm so enamored with this product that probably would have saved me from needing to learn a lot of HTML two decades ago. It did serve me well, though... but I'd have rather been playing Q2CTF https://medium.com/initialized-capital/if-guilded-had-existe...
This post is especially awesome to me because Guilded was launched on reddit, and a majority of our continued feedback comes either directly from reddit or from users that found us initially through reddit.
The most fun thing about this project so far has been how all the things I spent tons of time on just for fun (reddit, gaming) ended up showing their worth later, like the superhero movies where the useless power ends up being useful in a really contrived way at the end.
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#18I would recommend you also support iRacing. It's probably the game where the largest percentage of players are in a team on some level, and actively race under that team.
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#19looks fantastic! I would love a version of this but for board game groups, but right now, I will organize my Civilization group with it
Re: Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams
#20I would recommend you also support iRacing. It's probably the game where the largest percentage of players are in a team on some level, and actively race under that team.
Interesting, I haven't looked into iRacing yet. I'll definitely check this out, thank you for the suggestion.