Beernerd.app Release Party - Week 6

Frank Tumminello

Founder

November 28, 2025

The launch party 🎉 was an absolute success! The event was full of fun, great feedback, and we even had a SEV0. What a week! 😵‍💫

Launch Party Overview 🥳

We got to the park at around 1:50pm and were finally set up by 2:30pm.
- The party start was for 2:00pm... yeah I should really work on my punctuality😅.
People rolled in from 2:45pm - 3:00pm and the tournament went underway by 3:30pm.
Before the start we ran a practice game and I uncovered a SEV0 bug.
- A user was unable to record a miss due to a CSS issue.
- This could have easily been prevented had I ran a quick QA beforehand.
- Luckily I brought my laptop and was able to merge a quick fix (see photo below).
- Note to self: don't ship code the day of the tournament🤦‍♂️.
We had 9 teams total in the tournament - including 1 team of people we didn't even know!
- Spoiler Alert! This team went on to win the whole thing.
One team had left early, so the the forfeit feature shipped earlier in the week came in clutch.

Statting orientation - statters were annoyed they couldn't re-lay the table to make statting easier.
Global notifications - annoying for tournament owner to approve notifications while in the middle of statting. Need to make notifications global.
Game Comments - error occurred when adding a comment to the game because the app tried to access user information that wasn't available in state.
Refetch game information upon notification approval - once notification is approved user had to refresh the page to get updated owner information.

Tracing Beernerd Logo with Projector

Pre Paint

Tables Final Result

SEV0 at the Park

Hucking @ Sunset

Die Setup @ Night

Built and shipped 🚢 Beernerd's notification platform - allowing users to request statting privileges.
Thanks to my friend Andrew Che (Founder of Cypress AI), we shipped 2 items:
- The ability to view follower and following information.
- The hilarious /404 page.

Gave Sacco a walkthrough of how to publish blogs.
Built a CAD model of the table for better engineering understanding (also just needed a little break from the code).

Published week 5 blog post.
Built out a ticket for my roommate Milki to work on. I got him a Beernerd hoodie from our store and as payment he promised to work on the app.
Shipped the ability to leave comments on games. From /record/beerdie/[gameId], clicking the notes icon pulls up a menu where a user can leave a comment. Each comment is stored in a table with gameId, senderId, and timestamp information. This functionaliy will later be leveraged for the app's feed.

I woke up and chose violence... I shipped 3 PRs right before the tournament:
- Added comment viewing from /stat/overview page.
- Added forfeit functionality (seriously this saved the tournament).
- Added teams drop down from /stat/overview info tab. This makes it easier to map who is on what team from the bracket view (still not the best design).
After the tournament I got dinner and drinks with friends to celebrate. The perfect ending to a great day!

Overall, an awesome week of work! These are the weeks that make all the hard work worth it. Really excited for future events, stay tuned!