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I have created a whatsapp and facebook like social gaming platform

JohnDelvin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:28:46 +0000

Link to the platform
My github
Video link
What you should know before reading any of this:

The plaform is "mobile first".
Am 21year old male from Africa, Uganda , a self taught software engineer with 8 years of experience(since i started writing code) in js, c/c++,python,bash scripting and Java.

Why:
I have been on vacation(high school vacation here lasts for about 12 months), and have built alot of side projects, read and written alot of code,plus doing whatever i wanted...
Actual reason was actually curiosity.

short story:
I have been working on it for about 2.5 months. Database is fully under supabase API. These are some of the features:

Realtime messaging
Comment section
Inapp marketplace for selling games mainly HTML5 game using built with phaser3 and Android games built using libGDX personally made by me (am also working on startup game development company).
Gamelauncher
Searching users by name and including filters for location and hobbies(predefined hobbies).
Posting content similar to whatsapp status(compression is done using ffmpeg github actions after the post has been uploaded, supports text based posts, video , image). Storage is under cloudinary free-tier.
Notifications.(not realtime but fetches when the current data is invalidated or page refocuses)
Marketplace . Can be used by local users via mobile money(mainly from my country) and international users via credit cards.

There's more but these are the things endusers will actually notice.

I used react-bootstrap, fortawesome, and react for the front end. Everything todo with lists uses react-window including the texting area.

I would like some tips on what i should improve.

For now am hosting using github pages(not allowed for this kind of stuff).

Am using supabase free-tier though i plan to scale if actually the platform becomes popular. The idea was to a have a social platform with games because sometimes there's no one to chat to or simply we don't want to actually chat at the moment, why not play a game.
I could use some tips to improve it.

Recommend me some good ideas to improve my website

JohnDelvin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:28:50 +0000

I made this website {Streams Page} because i felt like alot of students who struggle with lack motivation could maybe benefit from watching others students study.
I shared it in some study groups on reddit and got some good reviews, but no one was giving feedback on what needed improvement so i thought i could get some useful feedback from fellow developers. Link to github repository

Recommend me some good ideas to improve my website

JohnDelvin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:28:35 +0000

Easter bunny time

JohnDelvin — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:04:28 +0000

Easter bunny time by John Delvin

Hello everyone. Am here to share my new game about easter celebrations.
In this game, you play as the easter bunny though this time you're not hiding eggs but finding them in only 5 minutes. Your task is to collect all 50 eggs before the time elapses.Have fun and i wish you happy Easter
celebrations.
I used the Phaser to create my game
Click on the link above
to play.
Take a screen shot when you find your last egg and add it to your comment, you can share how many times it took you to win
For me, i won after trying twice

What things should i consider before building a gaming site?

JohnDelvin — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 18:36:41 +0000

Hi everyone, am self taught and still in high school and for the last 2 years, i have been teaching myself how to code and now i feel am ready to put what i have learnt to use. The reason why i wanted to code in the first place, was to build games, i built some few games and shared them with my friends during the lockdown, they were just small 2d games i built with phaser 3.I felt like i needed to do more than just games so i want to build a gaming site where one can play and download games from. I know how to write code in;

Javascript
html
css
Python (my first to learn)
C

what else do i need to know before starting?