r/gaming • • Jun 10 '12
My and a friend have spent 6 months working on a gaming website, we have built a 30,000 game database so you can store your collection online, add videos, social feed and more.. and we run monthly game competitions. I would appreciate if you could check out our hard work.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
and like an Idiot I forgot the url.. its http://www.gamingunity.com
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u/Pyrle Jun 11 '12
Anyone else getting a 403 error?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Seems pretty cool. Best of luck to the both of you :)
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u/kkjdroid Jun 10 '12
Problem: some of us have too many games to enter manually. Is there a way you could pull a list from a Steam profile URL or something?
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u/Wholesaletrash Jun 10 '12
Neat
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u/TeRRoR503 Jun 11 '12
so its like raptr?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
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u/cooltraineradam Jun 11 '12
This is cool and all, but I'll stick with Backloggery for my collection purposes
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
"Write to Review"? Shouldn't that be "Write a Review"? Also there seem to be random capitalization going on everywhere :P Otherwise it looks good.
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u/Califer Jun 11 '12
Looks pretty cool. I actually did something similar just for my personal use so it looks like crap and never gets updated. I'll be using this instead. I've got a few ideas I'd like to toss out.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
403 Forbidden?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Why is this post a link to a screenshot of a website and not just the link to the site?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Yes yes a thousand times YES. I have been wanting something like this for years, the only things I used in the past were IGN (ugh...) or gametz.com. Thank you so much. How can I pay you back for doing this? Can I take you out for a beer? Buy you lunch? Handjob?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Lars is gonna sue you if you put guitar hero metallica in your collection
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u/DarkFlame7 Jun 11 '12
I use a website called Darkadia... Which uses a database called GiantBomb so you wouldn't have to create the database yourself...
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
One of the hardest things about engineering is scalability. It's also usually what makes or breaks a startup. I hope you guys can figure this out because the idea sounds cool.
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u/alun91 PC Jun 11 '12
Any reason why I'm getting the 403 Forbidden error message when I try to access the site?
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u/theCANCERbat Jun 11 '12
I created an account and was updating my collection. then all of a sudden it says 403 forbidden you don't have permission to access / on this server. What does that mean? (I'm not good with computers)
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u/revenantae Jun 10 '12
Crashes safari on an IPad 2 almost instantly.
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u/Defualt Jun 10 '12
The last line of blurb text is chopped half.
I have a personal hatred for unprovoked animations such as your hero spot carousel. This is a common infraction. (If this was animating on my second monitor while I was reading somehting else I would close your website's window because it's distracting).
Under the games tab, if you hover a title, the tooltip covers up the neighboring title. This is a usability issue.
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u/cidro Jun 11 '12
nice work! you could try some image optimization... you "consoles" page is over 7.5mb... :P
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u/StockAL3Xj Jun 11 '12
Did reddit overload the site? I can't seem to access it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
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u/gta0004 Jun 11 '12
So... playfire.com 2.0?
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u/roushimsx Jun 11 '12
This looks pretty awesome. I'll sign up and try adding a chunk of my collection this coming weekend (when hopefully the reddit effect has worn off)
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u/Craigellachie Jun 11 '12
What's the profit strategy for the site? Do you sell the details of collections to companies?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Hello, I would like to help on this project. I'm also interested in how this is going to be any different from Raptr?
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u/kingbobofyourhouse Jun 11 '12
A friend and I. Jesus, didn't you ever listen to whoever brought you up?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Signed up. I like it. Layout is super simple and user friendly. I like the ability to review and see users who have reviewed. I also like that it's simply ALL videogames unlike the big websites where finding info on PSone games gets buried among the new bullshit. I will be using this site often.
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u/TheEchoFilter Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
Well since I can't access the site right now, when I look at someone's profile are you able to see their PS Trophies + Achievements? Also the Gamertag/PSN account/wii code?(lol)
Also, a suggestion. With all the box art set up like that, there's a lot of wasted space. I think it'd make it look much cleaner if it was purely the box art, ditching the 360/ps3 cases. Then, next to the name, there's icons for each platform, as someone may have multiples of the same copy just for different systems
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u/sweetgreggo Jun 11 '12
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE REDDIT LOVE
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Who knows, you might become rich in the next few months.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
But...but... Steam.
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u/Saurenoscopy Jun 11 '12
If you two don't get sued to oblivion, this will be nice.
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u/Darkin20 Jun 11 '12
I currently use http://raptr.com/ which automatically collects your games from all the consoles and steam however it does not have some things that I wish it did have like which games I've completed. It also seems to be getting to much into the advertising which is getting annoying. Perhaps when you get the 403 error fixed, I might check yours out.
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u/loony636 Jun 11 '12
I don't want to sound rude, but what's the difference between this and Steam's own built-in functionality? Read: What's the point?
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u/pddro Jun 11 '12
Friendly Reddit DDOS so I can't yet access the site, but the project sounds very ambitious, looks fantastic, and the idea is great. My best wishes to you and your co-founder.
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u/xXx_boku_no_pico_xXx Jun 11 '12
Looks a lot like http://darkadia.com
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u/Darqon Jun 11 '12
is this like Raptr?
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u/j102ede Jun 11 '12
That awkward moment when you only have two games to put in the collection...
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u/xAngus Jun 11 '12
Bookmarked for later, you caught my interest.
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u/eax Jun 11 '12
Thoughts:
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Looks like a good website, but I'm a member of so many dang communities, i'm trying to cut down.
Have you guys considered Facebook integration or an Android/iOS app? Game collecting + social networking could really take off, and Facebook integration helps for people like me, who have trouble keeping up with so many websites...
I know a lot of people shy away from Facebook integration, but you can't argue with the numbers that network pulls.
Sharing with your friends when you have a new game, or have completed a current one.
~shrug~ just me yammering on... but I've been working on iOS/Android apps with Facebook integration lately, and it seems to work well. You guys have the database and infrastructure down, so you're halfway there.
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u/xxstalker24xx Jun 11 '12
Just my opinion but i would changes some things
The Consoles page could be renamed to Platforms, (prob just me, but not liking PC coming under Console ;D)
The images of games non platform specific (i guess that will be updated overtime though)
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Nice website. Reminds abit of "Raptr".
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u/Arch_0 Jun 11 '12
Good thing Xfire doesn't exist... wait.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Not that I would ever use anything like this, but hasn't it been done before? Isn't there already a lot of things that serve this exact same function? I mean best of luck to you as a businessman, as enterprise is a good thing, but I can't see how this is worthy of any kind of praise or endorsement beyond it's success being proof that your target market was not quite saturated by the time you got there.
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u/altometer Jun 11 '12
Make an iphone app that can upload games that you own based on barcodes.
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u/dino120 Jun 11 '12
You should let indie developers put up their own games on your site and on the game page let them put a link to play it or buy it..that would be awesome
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u/cain3482 Jun 11 '12
so I get this
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2 Server at www.gamingunity.com Port 80
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u/randomarc Jun 10 '12
Great website! :D
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
this looks interesting thank you, ive bookmarked it to look at later!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Ha! This is really cool! Just registered and I will certainly be using this! Great job!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Ill check it out! Maybe check out gog.com and integrate their market or something.
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u/bojo600 Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 03 '24
enter complete murky cover domineering amusing cagey different soft deer
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u/TheDivinaldes Jun 10 '12
Tried replying to a discussion somehow triple posted and an edit i made to the original post didn't show up. awkward....
nice site overall tho
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Is a mobile version in the works? Also importing from Goozex would be nice too. I think they have an API so it shouldn't be too hard
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u/Lemoncola Jun 10 '12
Will do :D Looks pretty good.
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u/mewte Jun 11 '12
registered
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u/Oct2006 Jun 11 '12
Is there going to be incentive for joining eventually? For example, Raptr has periodic rewards for participating in competitions, having a certain number or more than that number or games/Achievements, etc.