Dauntless Gaming

Game review and blog site.

Overview

Some friends and I got together and decided to try to take a stab at building a gaming news site.

A few of them really wanted to write reviews and opinion pieces, and I really wanted to learn to use Amazon's product API to generate some revenue.

I got the Amazon integration working. No articles ever got written, sadly.

Current Status

Retired

Core Problems

• We wanted a place to publish our own articles
• I wanted to experiment with Amazon's product API
• I wanted to experiment with different algorithms for review relevance (ended up stealing Reddit's implementation of Wilson score intervals)

Lessons Learned

• Amazon's API is extremely robust. I have used it as an example when building my own WebAPIs
• Don't build a website around other people's writing unless they already have like 10 articles ready to go

Current Objectives

• Move the code out of BitBucket before Mercurial support expires
• Maybe revisit the concept - the review relevance algorithm turned out pretty cool

Tools

• ASP.Net MVC
• Javascript / jQuery
• Amazon Product APi
• C#
• Entity Framework
• Visual Studio
• MS SQL
• Mercurial / BitBucket