Show HN: A website/app to help manage your game library

Post by lamarcke » Tue, Apr 08, 2025, 8:10 PM UTC

lamarcke wrote: post #21

nottorp wrote: post #11

Pretty actually. How hard would it be to include physical Playstation games by scanning the barcode or something like that? For consoles it still makes sense to buy discs... they're discounted a lot more and faster than the digital versions. And with me having a more than respectable backlog, I almost always buy on disc and almost always after it's discounted by 50%.

I would guess that's pretty doable for our mobile version, but I can't promise without doing some PoC fist But it would probably to this: - Scan the Barcode - Fetch the product name from it and try finding a match in our database (ManticoreSearch does a good job in finding matches with similar names) It all depends on if the product name would even be there at all, or if it can be retrieved easily

Post by lamarcke » Tue, Apr 08, 2025, 8:19 PM UTC

metalliqaz wrote: post #14

nottorp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GoG Galaxy can handle Steam games too... Probably not the proprietary launchers for the top predators... Blizz, EA, Ubisoft...

I have been using GOG Galaxy to try and track my entire collection but of course its connections to other gaming services are always broken. I've heard that other tools like Playnite work better but I've not gotten enough motivation to try as yet. I prefer Steam's well-integrated interface. It would be nice if it could scrape other launchers too.

Post by nottorp » Tue, Apr 08, 2025, 8:57 PM UTC

lamarcke wrote: post #22

lamarcke wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would guess that's pretty doable for our mobile version, but I can't promise without doing some PoC fist But it would probably to this: - Scan the Barcode - Fetch the product name from it and try finding a match in our database (ManticoreSearch does a good job in finding matches with similar names) It all depends on if the product name would even be there at all, or if it can be retrieved easily

Since i don't have a Playstation console currently, can you tell me if disk games are also featured in your library? (E.g. other users may see them when they enter your profile) If they are, you could import them directly from our PSN integration.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 08, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

ryu2k2 wrote: post #25

I built mal for videogames too over 10 years ago. A friend also did individually. And I know at least 5 other sites that are "mal, but videogames" or have similar features. Imo the concept is a waste of time until there are APIs for each console/store to fetch user data and automate libraries. Most users don't bother and the few that do already have accounts spread on like 10 different sites for this kind of thing. P…

Post by kikki » Tue, Apr 08, 2025, 9:45 PM UTC

lamarcke wrote: post #17

hoten wrote: post #6

Have you used Playnite? Have you built features / plan to make features that would set this apart from Playnite?

To be honest, we don't even have a desktop app currently, though we do plan to make one. IMO Playnite is a behemot and it's very hard to overtake it, so maybe the best course of action would be to create a plugin to help sync their library data with ours (?). We both use IGDB data so it shouldn't be too hard. They also have a more robust store sync system going for them. But feature wise, the main difference is that…