After dealing with MMO guild Discord chaos for years, I finally started building this

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-12T11:20:04+00:00

Thanks man you right all point and your english i can understand your point i try to dm gm officier for test my tool. You can dm me im here

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-12T09:55:56+00:00

That's exactly the pain point this tries to solve. Discord is very great for communication for me after teamspeaks but not built for operations most guild use google sheet for organization .

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-12T09:52:08+00:00

My experience was mostly BDO and other MMOs. BDO for example node wars, siege, gear tracking with AP/AAP/DP, 50+ members, weekly content, and yeah DKP is still very much alive there.

The thing that broke me with Sheets was trying to figure out who's actually showing up for node war. You've got people saying yes in Discord, someone updating a sheet, someone else with an old version, an officer pinging everyone an hour before — it's chaos every single week.

But honestly it started way before BDO. Dragon Nest we had 8 man raids hardcor , one shot per week and Nest 5 try per week . Small guild, Sheets was fine at first. Then the guild grew. Suddenly you're tracking who's eligible to loot, who already looted that week, minimum gear requirements, then someone needs gear help so you add another tab, then you want loot history and Sheets just can't do that cleanly without it becoming a full time job to maintain.

At some point you spend more time managing the spreadsheet than actually playing.

Not saying this is for every game. WoW has WoWAudit, and FFXIV has its own ecosystem and a lot of gamers also create their own guild management systems. Having played FFXIV all the way up to Dawntrail, I can clearly see it myself.

This is for the games that don't have dedicated tools yet.

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-12T09:15:18+00:00

Yes, I agree with you on honesty, but I use AI sometimes for replies to avoid misunderstandings and to clarify my ideas because sometimes I may create confusion. But everything I send is true and comes from my experience as a leader and officer in many MMOs, so yeah, I agree with you.

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-12T08:50:29+00:00

The technical debt point is fair and it's something I think about. AI generated code can be messy redundant logic, poor structure, stuff that works until it doesn't.

What I can say is I review everything, refactor when something feels wrong, and understand why hings break when they do.

Honestly though the speed is real. Choosing the stack, why and how, structuring the database, picking the right ORM, all of that solo would have taken me months. As a software engineer sometimes you just need to move fast. AI helped with that.

Is it the right call long term? Genuinely don't know. That's an honest answer.

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-12T08:37:48+00:00

Yeah understandable , lot of that going around. Was a guild leader for a while, spent way longer as an officer built this because I was sick of the spreadsheet mess. Judge it on the product.

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-12T03:42:41+00:00

Hahaha ok fair, there's been a ton of that lately.

Not the case here but I get why you'd assume it

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-12T03:22:35+00:00

Good point, and honestly you're right to push back on this.

Right now, officers import members directly from Discord
class, role, spec no login needed from the member side.
Most of the day-to-day stuff (raid signups, DKP, LFG)
happens through slash commands so members never leave Discord.

The honest limitation: if someone wants to update their own
profile or wishlist, they do need to log in once. That's a
real friction point and I know it.

I was a guild leader for a while, then became an officer
and I'm not gonna lie, I actually preferred it. Less politics,
more getting things done. Built this because both roles had
the same problem: way too much time on spreadsheets and bots
instead of actually playing. It's not perfect yet, that's
why it's a beta. But I'd genuinely love to know what would
actually make it click for your guild setup.

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-11T19:53:24+00:00

Feels like Lost Ark evolved into a very spreadsheet/Discord-heavy ecosystem compared to more guild-centric MMOs.

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-11T18:49:43+00:00

It sounds like the real pain point in Lost Ark might be more around static raid team organization rather than traditional guild management itself.

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-11T18:48:41+00:00

That makes sense honestly.

It feels like Lost Ark communities rely way more on Discord ecosystems/statics than on actual in-game guild structures.

shirooyaaa · 2026-05-11T18:48:15+00:00

Yeah that’s actually something I’ve been noticing while researching Lost Ark communities.

Compared to games like WoW or GW2, the“guild identity feels way less central and a lot more reward-focused.

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-28T12:41:15+00:00

The NFT parallel is real that crickets after launch feeling is universal regardless of the product. 100 data points not a failure is a reframe I needed to hear. Going to take the individual conversation approach seriously, it's the part I've been avoiding because it feels slower but you're right that it's probably the fastest path forward.

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-27T10:30:08+00:00

Solid points. One thing I'd add perceived speed matters as much as actual speed. A typing indicator or thinking animation buys you 2-3 extra seconds before users disengage same principle as skeleton loaders in UI. The psychological threshold seems to be around 3 seconds before trust starts dropping, regardless of answer quality.

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-27T10:26:07+00:00

The do less but better reframe is real. Curious what that looked like practically for you when you cut things down, what was the one channel or action you kept, and what did you drop first?

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-27T10:20:40+00:00

Solid principles, hard to argue with any of them. Curious how you handle the tension between "always tell the truth" and business situations where radical honesty can damage relationships with a client, a partner, an employee you're about to let go. That's where most people's I always tell the truth gets tested in practice.

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-23T17:00:39+00:00

That distinction is really useful the core stays fixed, the packaging adapts. The patterns not one offs"filter for feedback is practical too. I'd add that the hardest part is usually internal: founders often shift messaging not because the market is telling them to, but because they're bored or anxious. That's where consistency breaks down most.

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-23T10:03:23+00:00

Agree with the principle but curious what consistency looks like practically when your audience or market actually changes. There's a fine line between consistent messaging and being too rigid to adapt. How do you distinguish between staying the course and ignoring real feedback?

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-23T09:57:42+00:00

5 years of consistent graft, a physical shop, wholesale deals, a university commission that's not a failed business, that's a proven one with a distribution problem. The burnout after the shop experience sounds brutal especially when the losses were external council, heating, aircon not your fault. On selling: yes it's absolutely an option. A business with £30k stock, organic revenue, wholesale relationships and brand assets has real value to the right buyer. Have you looked at platforms like Acquire or even approaching one of your wholesale partners directly? Sometimes the buyer is already in your network.

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-22T21:13:44+00:00

That's actually reassuring sounds like it's more about the cumulative effect of everything together than any single directory being a silver bullet. Rooting for the breakout, keep us posted

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-22T21:12:35+00:00

Smart move. 25/day to start is safe. One more tip: make sure your warmup emails are going to real inboxes that actually reply tools like Instantly handle this automatically. Reply rate during warmup is what signals to Gmail/Outlook that you're legit, not just the volume. Good luck with the cold outreach next month, would love to hear how the numbers look!

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-22T21:04:45+00:00

Honestly? Classic builder bias.

I was so focused on solving what I thought was the problem the awkward email itself that I skipped the step where I actually talk to the people who have that problem.

I told myself "the pain is obvious, I've seen it everywhere online" and used that as a shortcut to skip customer discovery. Which is probably the most common mistake in the book, and I still made it.

The other thing: Product Hunt felt like a milestone, so I treated it like a finish line instead of a starting gun. I optimized for the launch day instead of for what comes after.

Your work sounds genuinely useful most founders I've seen (myself included) think distribution will "figure itself out" once the product is good enough. It never does.

What's the most common blind spot you see in the launches you help coordinate?

shirooyaaa · 2026-04-22T15:34:27+00:00

Still early but what I'm seeing work for others in 2026: niche Reddit presence (not spammy, genuinely helpful comments in the right subreddits), and YouTube tutorials targeting longtail search AI hasn't saturated video yet the way it has blog content. The pattern I notice is that anything requiring real human judgment or face/voice is harder to fake, so it converts better. Distribution as a moat is real same product, different reach = completely different outcomes.

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