Launched on Halloween 2007, NearbyGamers was my first major Rails project, a free service for tabletop gamers to set up groups. It heavily integrates with the Google Maps API, includes subtle IP address geolocation (so visitors see content local to them), and includes a large and growing wiki of games people play.
Actually, there were a lot of personal firsts here: complete automated deployment and provisioning, complete test coverage, really good OO style, AJAX…
I’m really happy with how quickly it’s grown to thousands of gamers and I’ve heard lots of success stories of people setting up and growing their groups.
It hasn’t had a lot of improvement since its launch (aside from one badly needed graphic redeign — hm, it could probably use another), but there’s a lot on the way for fall 2009.
More info in blog posts.
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- A dicussions
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- The forum index
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- Homepage
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- Games galore
