| niuage United States. November 30 2011 11:01. Posts 169 | Profile # |
Hey guys,
Right now, when people want to find barcrafts, they have to go through TeamLiquid, Reddit, maybe facebook...
Same for people trying to organize barcrafts, they have to create a facebook page to get an estimate of the number of people interested... (hard to do in a forum).
My point is, there is room for improvement 
So I thought I would create a website to list them all.
It would make it easy for people to search by location, date etc...
It would also make the life of the organizers easier: nice form to create their barcrafts, people could rsvp, comment, upload pictures etc.
Here is my first try! http://ibarcraft.com 
IT'S IN BETA! (maybe even alpla )
The reason why I post it here so early is that I need feedback from you guys. It's really hard to get things exactly right the first time, especially when you're working alone. So I need your help. It's not been tested in IE (argh), and right now, with just a few users, the performances are good, but I'll have to optimize it if enough people are interested.
Don't hesitate to talk about anything you don't like or just share ideas. You can create fake barcrafts to see if the experience for organizers is good.
Thanks!
ps: I just used random data found on reddit or TL to add some barcrafts, so that the site is not empty, don't pay too much attention
Last edit: 2011-11-30 12:24:11 |
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| Torte de Lini Canada. November 30 2011 11:13. Posts 27005 | Profile Blog # |
| Awesome! Definitely tweeting this! |
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| niuage United States. November 30 2011 11:16. Posts 169 | Profile # |
| Haha nice Maybe I'm just overreacting, but don't promote it too much for now, my current hosting platform can't handle much traffic I think ^^. |
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| StarStruck November 30 2011 11:28. Posts 18312 | Profile # |
Someone finally had the balls to make an official website.
Not bad. |
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| mki Poland. November 30 2011 11:31. Posts 660 | Profile # | |
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| chesshaha United States. November 30 2011 11:55. Posts 1074 | Profile # |
Nice work man, I'll probably use this site next time we're planing for barcraft.
Thanks! |
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| niuage United States. November 30 2011 11:58. Posts 169 | Profile # |
Awesome
Btw, I'm not sure I've been clear: you can test stuff out, create fake barcrafts etc so that I can improve the experience based on your feedback. |
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| indigoawareness Slovakia. November 30 2011 12:23. Posts 272 | Profile # |
very very good! Nice resource, of course the key to successful functionality is getting everyone on board.
Next step is to try to get some people to back you. Blizzard itself was interested in barcraft, as are mlg and others. Get your name associated with them.
Or better facebook integration/facebook app. idk, just throwing out some ideas.Last edit: 2011-11-30 12:28:45 |
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| niuage United States. November 30 2011 12:29. Posts 169 | Profile # |
Yes! I will begin to promote the site and contact influential people as soon as I feel like it is good enough. There still some work to be done before that
I dont think I want to turn it into a facebook app, but a better integration with facebook would be a good idea indeed.Last edit: 2011-11-30 12:31:03 |
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| BlueBoxSC United States. November 30 2011 12:30. Posts 535 | Profile Blog # |
Nothing for Vegas.  |
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| niuage United States. November 30 2011 12:31. Posts 169 | Profile # |
| So create one |
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| fuzzy_panda New Zealand. November 30 2011 12:56. Posts 1137 | Profile Blog # |
| we so need to do a barcraft in New Zealand... |
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| EscPlan9 United States. November 30 2011 13:00. Posts 2668 | Profile Blog # |
| Wow really well done! I'll play with it a bit more later |
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| BlazeTSR United States. November 30 2011 13:49. Posts 218 | Profile # |
| Fantastic idea!! keep up the good work! |
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| niuage United States. November 30 2011 14:52. Posts 169 | Profile # |
It's cool to see that you all like the idea!
(good night) |
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| GenesisX Canada. November 30 2011 14:56. Posts 3961 | Profile Blog # |
Great idea!  |
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| Joefish Germany. November 30 2011 14:59. Posts 305 | Profile # |
Excellent idea!
In the last few months the Barcraft events really skyrocketed (at least that's how I feel)
and really hard to keep track of all of them and see if there is actually one near you.
If people use your site to announce and organize their events
I can see that you did there something really good for the community |
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| niuage United States. November 30 2011 23:40. Posts 169 | Profile # |
Thanks
Yeah, I hope it will be useful to the community!
You mentioned that it's hard to keep track of all of them. I was thinking about allowing you to create groups. I would be great for people organizing several barcrafts, and users could "follow" the group and be notified of the next barcrafts automatically. |
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| niuage United States. December 01 2011 08:25. Posts 169 | Profile # |
How do you think I should handle events?
Should I maintain a list of the main events myself?
Should I allow users to create their own? In this case, I'd have to be careful about duplicates...
What do you think? |
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| lithium- France. December 01 2011 12:47. Posts 3 | Profile # |
| Really great and useful website to find a barcraft around New York city ! Thank you niuage ! |
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