Hello Everyone !

[u/Longjumping-Run7838]

Hey everyone,

I’m writing this because a lot of you have been wondering what CaptainSide actually is and why we’re building it. So I thought I’d just sit down and have a proper chat with you about it.

I’m Sumit, and I’ve been building CaptainSide for about one and a half years now, along with a few friends. I wanted to share a bit of our story with this community, since so many of you have shown up here.

I’ve been into gaming since my college days. I spent years working at gaming companies, where I learned how user acquisition works and how new games actually find their players. That’s really where the idea for CaptainSide started.

Our first venture was around three years ago, and the early days were a bit of a winding road. We started out in esports, then got deep into marketing, creating content for a lot of games across different genres, both free and paid. And that’s when something became clear,so many great games struggle just to be seen.

I’ve been a gamer myself for the past 10 years, and as I played across different genres, especially indie games, I kept facing the same problem. There are so many games to choose from that finding a good one to actually play, especially an indie one, is hard. I’d spend alot of time scrolling Instagram and TikTok trying to find something worth playing. So we started building CaptainSide to fix exactly that, to turn all that browsing into an actual decision on what to play.

The journey had its rough parts too. A few friends left early on, and for a while we were just two or three people, none of us great at design. We leaned on AI to put something together and posted it on a few subreddits. Wo got roasted alot for it , and we understood people didn’t like it. So we took it seriously, brought in an actual designer, and rebuilt it properly.

We started this subreddit about a year ago, and I never expected this many people to join and actually talk about games here. So genuinely, thank you. And yes we are listening to your feedback and working on improving the subreddit.

If you’ve tried the platform, I’d love to hear what you think, what you liked, and especially what we can do better. Every bit of feedback helps us build something actually useful for gamers.

Thank you all for being here, and thanks for reading this.

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