Clubs on Blind Valet now have 5 roles: Owner, Director, Floor, Table Captain, Member. Delegate running the night without handing over the keys to everything. Each role gets exactly the permissions it needs. #buildinpublic

I've made the league scoring in Blind Valet more flexible. Custom point formulas get 6 new variables (knockouts, re-entries, buy-in and more), plus an option to count re-entries in the standings. Scoring engine is getting more and more powerful! #buildinpublic

Big seating upgrade for Blind Valet tournaments: seating and table balancing now run server side, so every screen in the room agrees. Break tables in any order, and drawing the final table auto-pauses the clock and renames the table "Final Table". #buildinpublic

Live on Twitch for a Dev/Support stream. I answer questions if there are any, otherwise I build a feature from my user's feature requests: www.twitch.tv/blindvalet

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Creator of Blind Valet https://blindvalet.com Developer, entrepreneur. French/American living in Nantes, France. I'll stream n English, but will also take questions in French. (Je vais streamer en ang...

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Don't ask your AI: I think A is better than B, don't you? (it will almost always agree with you) Ask instead: Which is better: A or B? (It will give a more unbiased answer)

I started tracking tournaments and tournament participants on Blind Valet in 2016. Just crossed a big milestone with 3 MILLION participants since I started tracking: #buildinpublic

Added a Help Center to blindvalet.com Interface and all content translated into 45+ languages for my global audience. I add question/answers through my home grown back office web app. That triggers a cloud function to handle the translations with AI. #buildinpublic

Added Hand for Hand feature to the Blind Valet poker tournament clock. When play goes hand for hand the clock will stop and you can take 2 minutes off clock for every hand played. #buildinpublic

Back home after a trip to the USA. Did a little roadtrip in the south visiting some cardrooms and casinos in Florida then some Blind Valet users in Georgia, and the Carolinas. Learned a lot and it has helped me find some focus for my roadmap. Closed it out with some family time. Great trip!

Blind Valet stat of the day: Over 200K tournaments on the platform since I started tracking it in 2016 #buildinpublic

On today's Twitch Dev/Support live stream: - fixed sorting for Template menus - fixed sorting for merge member menu - Added new seat locking feature as requested by users. Lock players into their seats at the table so that they won't be moved by automatic table balancing. #buildinpublic

Live on Twitch for a dev/support stream. www.twitch.tv/blindvalet #buildinpublic

Last week for blindvalet.com Great month of July continues. I would like to think that it is because I started back full-time on the project July 1st, but hard to point to exact reasons why. #buildinpublic

I'll be doing a dev/support live stream on Twitch tomorrow (Monday July 21st at 2pm CEST/8am EST) Stop by and say hi! www.twitch.tv/blindvalet #buildinpublic

New Blind Valet home page is deployed. I moved the application functionality to the app subdomain and deployed a new GatsbyJS home page. Performance before and after! #buildinpublic

After a rough May/June for Blind Valet subscriptions, nice uptick so far in July! Summer is usually slow, so it is really nice to see this. #buildinpublic

Last week for blindvalet.com Churn numbers are a bit deceiving as a lot of users only run 1 or 2 tournaments a year, so they will just subscribe for one month at a time. Not sure how to analyze this appropriately. #buildinpublic

blindvalet.com is a passion project. First version was just a blind structure calculator at blindvalet.fr It's been a while!

Working on a little uplift of the Blind Valet landing page. Performance is terrible as it is running on the same codebase as the rest of the app and is pulling text translations from the DB at runtime. - App => app.blindvalet.com - Blindvalet.com => fast loading GatsbyJS site. #buildinpublic

Stat of the day: Biggest week ever on Blind Valet had over 850 tournaments and over 12800 participants! #buildinpublic

Achievement unlocked 😅

Stat of the day: over half a million participants in Blind Valet tournaments in the past year! #buildinpublic #indiedev

Last week for blindvalet.com Summer is the slowest period as amateur poker clubs are often off during the summer #buildinpublic

My first week back full-time working on Blind Valet since the pandemic! ✅ Setting up my payroll for paying myself :) (Payfit) ✅ Setting up my health insurance (Alan) ✅ Mindmap to dump my ideas on my business (Whimsical) ✅ Task planning (Trello) ✅ Accounting #buildinpublic #indie #solopreneur