Jerry [ ] Scrape data for up to 1000 games [ ] Think of image storage (for each movie, there should be many images) [ ] Database points to images refs easier [ ] Design home page [ ] Design logo [ ] set up social media [ ] write content [ ] article UI [ ] take lots of pictures of games
Calvin [ ] Figure out engineering stack [ ] User profiles, discussion, forms
[ ] learn seo, pump out articles [ ] images page [ ] similar games api [ ] basic recommendation app [ ] link to games in the article [ ] google analytics?
[ ] mailchimp [ ] user accounts [ ] users can rate games [ ] forum or discussion or comments in game entry page [ ] figure out some bug tracking software / site to replace this
- Finalize Data format & Scrape
- scraper needs to download the pictures into the assets archive
- simplify the data formats, the '@objectid' and '#text' keys
- Firebase s3-like service for image storage
- Finish Game entry UI page
- [ X ] Populate DB & game entry makes ajax request [ ] consider not having images in the git repo (slows down commits )
- set up landing page, with query input to return the game entry page for it
- JS vs db for data storage
- game entry pages
- collect emails
- articles network
- user profile pages
- forums
- deals
- send mail to users to notify them of deals, games they might like (based on their collection and liked games), articles, events, local game stores
- video presence -- game reviews, game playthroughs, dethrone Tabletop; events coverage
- videos need to be short; explain the overview, key mechanics, turn walkthrough, high LEVEL
- clips of game in action, people having fun, interesting nuances
- marketplace
- kickstarter/designers hub/ks weekly roundup
- subscriptions to game news, forum posts, game families
- authorities you can follow, what they are playing / posting about
- raffles/contests
- invest in own lab to fund designers, spur innovation in the field
- dominion strategy principles
- one night ultimate werewolf strategy
- personal top games lists
- gen-con roundup
- 2017 games to be excited for
- 2016 spiel de jahre recap
- captain sonar primer + rules addition
- tips for good first time captain sonar
- input a game you like
- algo levels:
- LEVEL 1: rating, publisher, game type, # people, game length
- LEVEL 2: what others who liked this own, what others who liked this also liked
- LEVEL 3: reddit WSIG posts, users rating the link itself
- tinder/pandora/spotify-radio style swiping mechanism, shows soft landing page with: picture(s), rating, awards, price, "learn more" button, amazon affiliate link button (on picture)
- basically enough information to get people to learn more
- search criteria for why this game is similar to the entered one
themeta.games 12, boardgamer.space 2, metagames.io 30, metagame.io 30 metagame.space 2 metagame.world 2 boardgame.zone 3 metagaming.org 8 gamersend boardgames.tips 20 boardgames.guide 20 win condition themetagame metagame metagames gamerspace roll play victory point board game meta, gamemeter gamemeter analysis paralysis gamemaster(s) endgame gamespace gamr meeple.me game point action point sandbox ludology ludogames ludologists game mechanics dudes on a map kingmaker board game magnate board game Legacy overpowered games volksgame gamersgame
take two board game jargons and put them together like hipster style (tasty n sons, pig and pestle, board & game)
winning criterion: get a .com, which requires us to think bigger
facebook style picture masthead, useful attributes and statistics in good UI, then user reviews a la yelp, amazon, rottentomatoes, metacritic, etc
- link to forums for those games, useful forum links (bgg, reddit), rules additions / clarifications
- other blogs pay us to link to their articles
- how to play / review videos
- user pictures
- amazon affiliate link
What's most important to someone looking at a game profile? * What's this game about? * Type of game, length, complexity * # players * Theme * Am I going to like this? * Do others like it? * Similar games
- mtg/wizards
- medium
- name
- display name
- geographic location
- collections
- ratings
- what games they "learned more" about
- what games they click the amazon affiliate link for / ended up buying (added to collection)
- their plays
- their comments / ratings => these will be used for other users, when they see this user's reviews/ratings, they can see what kind of player this user is, what games they own / play most often, what category is their strongest, etc
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/how-search-engines-operate https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/5ppzlu/i_am_kelly_north_adams_a_female_board_game/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5st45a/iama_29yearold_married_guy_who_quit_his_job_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/5pzb3b/my_pirate_game_tortuga_1667_raised_125k_in_its/ http://www.namemesh.com/domain-name-search/meta%20gaming?show=1 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/the-effective-strategy-for-choosing-right-domain-names/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31126596/saving-response-from-requests-to-file https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/xml-to-dict-xml-to-json/ https://github.com/ThaWeatherman/scrapers/blob/master/boardgamegeek/get_game_info.py http://blog.joanboixados.com/building-a-boilerplate-for-a-koa-redux-react-application-including-webpack-mocha-and-sass/ http://www.industrydive.com/news/post/how-to-make-html-email-buttons-that-rock/#outlook https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/6bqtei/what_is_something_you_wished_youd_known_earlier/
Use https://www.similarweb.com/ to test their numbers. http://www.boardgamesfor.me/ https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Game_Recommendation_Algorithm https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/29wdng/announcing_the_new_board_game_recommendation_bot/ https://boardgamemenu.com/ http://stechschulte.net/2015/02/01/board-game-recommendations.html http://meta.boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/238/why-should-i-use-this-instead-of-boardgamegeek-whats-the-elevator-pitch
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/99401/boardgamegeek-xml-api https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Data_Mining https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/game_entry# https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/2no1ko/i_dont_get_boardgamegeekcom/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/1tht4h/my_personal_guide_to_boardgamegeek_how_i_make_the/
- bgg scrape doesn't have 'statistics' tag, which is vital
- server has some error:
events.js:161 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event - learn how to website architecture / infrastructure
- how to get blog into site; research other niche sites; medium embed (can't), others? jekyll?
- site name -> bigboardofgames.com
- set up hosting -- digitalocean credits, calvin aws?
incubator kickstarters for marketing / awareness only, all proceeds go to charity and backers get extras
http://blog.gainlo.co/index.php/2016/05/24/design-a-recommendation-system/ https://www.adminium.io/resources/articles
User Flows
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Fang
- rating/rank + year, then genre, then playing time + # players + images, then description, the at the bottom is comments, then price
- cares more about not buying duplicate games
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Charlie see if people like the game
ranking how long to play -- number of players -- mechanics pictures -- reviews (aggregation first, then skim)
description fits with first category but is generally weak
number of pieces -> pictures balance (from reviews) ex. picking a race that's stronger than others randomness
POST SCRAPE Processing
- rename @objectid to id
- rename #text to name
- rename (unix function) all image ext to png
- all description sections change
to newline