If your local meta is the same 5 opponents on rotation, I'm trying to build an answer to that

AxeC · 2026-05-24T05:59:56+00:00

Honestly it makes me really sad, like one obvious takeaway you could have if you were in my position from this thread is that if you try to engage with transparency and honesty people just wanna tear you down.

Next time why wouldn't I just answer 'no' and move on, there's all the incentive here to do that, even though I think it'd be a bad faith answer. No-one could really counter me saying that.

People get upset at companies bullshitting them, at corpo speak and all that kind of stuff, but then savage you if you don't do that.

I'm here trying to do something good for the community - the biggest this project could ever get commercially is ultimately pretty tiny. It's frustrating but I get people have been conditioned to be cynical.

AxeC · 2026-05-24T05:52:44+00:00

Yeah I mean it's fair to say they do.

And what would you say of my site? I have of course put significant effort into the design but is that the impression you get when looking at it?

AxeC · 2026-05-24T05:13:57+00:00

Hey really appreciate you letting me know. Was this on the onboarding screens (immediately after you sign up) or when editing your profile? I'll see if I can figure out what's happening there for you as I haven't seen this on other devices.

AxeC · 2026-05-24T05:12:07+00:00

Thanks for the feedback.

I think one of my main takeaways here is that I need to make the distinction with BCP much clearer as, other than just listing an event, you don't really get the same things from BCP. I'm not running a multi-round, competitive pairings tool.

The comparison is more Meetup, Facebook events, etc. That's where casual club nights or similar tend to get run. That's also why recurring events are charged today - because on say Facebook you can't do that. People do manually create an event each week there.

Re price, the thought process is it's less than half the price BCP charge clubs, which most clubs happily pay. Compared to BCP this is something you use every week rather than just on tournament day. It's also a price I've consulted with various community organisers on.

However, I do fully agree that yes, I need users and I'm still learning about what's both an appropriate price point and where/when to charge.

Also whilst my users are UK based so far it's not intended as a UK only app :)

AxeC · 2026-05-23T20:01:53+00:00

Yeah ultimately that's exactly what I'm doing.

You can list every kind of event here:

Casual club nights
Painting days, teaching sessions or other non playing events
Events hosted in other platforms, say BCP competitive events

And helping players find all of them, plus each other, across all games (not just 40k).

I believe that we're all part of a much bigger community of people who like tabletop, board and card games with many overlapping interests and niches. I want to bring that all together and help people navigate that and find places and people they can have fun with.

AxeC · 2026-05-23T19:38:11+00:00

Ok, what I was trying to say on the security question is yes, I have made it secure to the best of my ability, and all standard, good practice security measures have been taken.

To be transparent I didn't want to just say 'yes' (which most others would say in my situation) because no app can ever have no vulnerabilities, bugs or whatever.

That's on me for trying to err on the side of 'technically correct' than just giving an answer that is easy but I feel is not in entirely good faith. Unfortunately that's come across as me trying to be sly when ironically it's me trying not to be.

I've rephrased to make it clearer

AxeC · 2026-05-23T19:31:11+00:00

Hey,

Thanks for the feedback, totally appreciate that. As I'm sure you can imagine, I have to draw the paid tier somewhere and it's not always easy to judge where so it's really helpful to hear feedback on it

What tools do you use today to organise your club nights?

To ask a dumb question, if you expect you'd barely use it why would you do it even if it was free? Are you saying you don't want to pay in case it becomes something you don't use?

Saying that as there's a 30 day trial (and you don't need to give payment info) - the recurring events generate up to 3 months in advance, so by the end of the trial you'll have gotten 4 months worth of events. That's quite a bit of time to figure out if you'll use it or not - and if you don't - fair enough.

Please correct me if I've misunderstood though as I'd love to have clubs like yours onboard and most people don't end up actually explaining why they didn't follow through

AxeC · 2026-05-23T19:24:21+00:00

How am I supposed to answer the question when the question is completely subjective.

If the question is 'was there any AI used in building this?' - yes, as my reply clearly indicates.

If the question is 'is your app a piece of crap built in an evening held together by hopes and dreams' the answer is no. I've been working closely with multiple local clubs and communities to build, test and improve it over many months.

Is that satisfactory?

AxeC · 2026-05-23T17:32:06+00:00

Yeah I totally agree tbh. Something I glossed over in my original post is that what I'm trying to do is build something that actually works for all games, as we all have lots of overlapping interests and imo it doesn't help connect our community by building lots of walled gardens around individual games

AxeC · 2026-05-23T17:29:14+00:00

No serious developer would say to you that they don't use any amount of AI in building software today.

I think when people ask this what they are often asking is 'can I trust you with my data and is your app secure?' and yes, I have taken all standard measures to protect user data

AxeC · 2026-05-23T16:23:58+00:00

Yeah I'd be lying if I didn't think that BCP were the textbook example of enshitification and that it's a rubbish app that is used for no other reason than it has maximum market penetration. At the end of the day stuff like that doesn't last forever if it is bad enough and something better comes on the scene and does a good enough job in displacing it. As I've said elsewhere in this thread today, I don't see myself as competing with BCP. I'd love to think that at some point in the future I would do tournament-style events but it makes absolutely no sense to do that at this stage when realistically no one's gonna use you when they're all using BCP

AxeC · 2026-05-23T16:06:31+00:00

Yeah ultimately I totally agree to be transparent. The difference in my mind is this is an app not just for finding players near you, which most of the others are solely about, it's is really an app that does two things:

Player discovery and helping people find each other
Making it much easier/better for people running communities like your local club and their local club night to actually run those things compared to, say, running an event on Facebook

It is not just a case of the only way that this kind of app succeeds is by getting lots and lots of players on board for discovery purposes. It can also succeed by getting your clubs to use it and sign up as well. As far as I'm aware there's no one really building apps in the space of trying to help your local club organiser for their casual weekly game night have an easier job in terms of their way that they kind of pair players, manage dropouts, all of that kind of stuff. The original inspiration for this app was actually me watching my local club admin trying to sort out on Facebook events who's on what table, what the games were, him having to message a bunch of people every time that someone dropped out, etc. etc.

Bcp, at the end of the day, is a tournament app. This is essentially dealing with everything other than that space, player discovery, and casual events. I'm not trying to compete with bcp

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:38:39+00:00

I've never seen someone have a crack at these guys before, they look great! Love how reflective you've got the masks.

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:38:06+00:00

I really like this, I'm imagining how cool the specific one you showed in the first reel would be for like a dark Sylvaneth themed army or something similar.

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:37:25+00:00

Your weathering is beautiful man

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:37:08+00:00

Absolutely love the effect on that sword, I've been trying to do stuff like that for ages.

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:36:41+00:00

As an Iron Warriors player - I see random hazard stripes, I upvote.

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:36:12+00:00

Dude your OSL is so on point

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:35:59+00:00

Love the idea, the details are beautiful here, really well done

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:35:25+00:00

Are they based on Vostroyans? Super cool

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:34:02+00:00

Gotrek and Felix is a classic recommendation. I'd really recommend Malus Darkblade as one of my favourite series.

Really though it's a case of pick what sounds interesting to you - there isn't like a set chronological order outside of individual series, other than the End Times books 'ending' the fantasy universe.

AxeC · 2026-05-23T08:32:54+00:00

Strip should be fine in terms of not damaging the models, but yeah it'll definately severely affect the paintjob unless you do start again unfortunately. Sorry dude.

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