Wardstone

Hey y'all, here's a bit of background about the long road that Wardstone and I took to come to this point. I had played in League of Legends eSports organizations where all you had to keep track of everything is a spreadsheet with a ton of players, teams, champion pools, schedules, etc. Whenever someone changed their name you had to go update their op.gg link manually. Whenever you want to schedule practice it's a PITA because you have to coordinate everyone's schedules and time zones. It's painful. I wanted to make Wardstone to solve that problem and initially built it as a Django app. It was messy, didn't really have any kind of vision, and I don't think I even had it deployed anywhere back then. It sat and gathered dust for a long time until I made the second iteration of Wardstone in March of 2024. That second iteration was my first "big" app made with Wasp and I learned TONS about React, Node, Typescript, and designing interactions for real humans. The Wasp team and Discord helped along the way and I eventually had something I was pretty proud of. It was a lot! I deployed it out, shared it with a small group of folks and friends and let it sit for a while. Up until ~a month ago I had let Wardstone sit for 6 months and in that time I built a few other websites, learned quite a lot more about web design, and decided it was time to put my new knowledge into this project that I loved. Once I came back I upgraded a ton of functionality, did a huge design overhaul, and added some features I thought were missing for the essential experience. It's not perfect and I want to keep adding more features to help organization owners and staff run their orgs the best they can. Most of these people are volunteers and are spending their time manually updating things in a lot of places. I hope I can help those people out and make running an organization fun for them. I'm always looking for feedback and aiming to improve the experience, but I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!