Just saw this and what a great idea.

I have a few suggestions:

1. Rename to Garage Battles

2. Add option to create your own battles to pit specific users against each other.

3. Add option for weekly/monthly contests, similar to a photo contest allowing users to submit their vehicles for voting. (this could be a separate application honestly)

4. After all that, increase the price.

Hope this is useful. 😃

Do like that name, more concise. Do want it to be a little more agnostic so that it wasn't user vs user but vehicle vs vehicle. Don't want it to turn into a popularity contest. I'll have to see what that can look like in item 2.

Item 3, I'm a little hesitant on doing something like this. I know my community and many others use these contests to increase engagement on the forums and a lot of discussion comes out of that. The positive effect would be it would be easier on the organizer to put together the entries 🤣. Have to play with that idea for another app as it's something I've been considering for a while, just don't want to break that engagement. Having an option to put the entries back into the topic may be a way to do it but have to see what that looks like.

I see your point on 3. One alternative is whenever a "contest" is started, a topic is created in a designated forum.

Whenever someone enters their vehicle into the contest, a post is added to that thread with a some text and link to their vehicle.

This allows discussion where people can comment in the thread.

The front end application would show the current contest which you click on. That page will shown all entries along with a link to the discussion thread.

The front page could also include a button that takes you to all past contests.

Bonus points if the contests could be automated. There could also be a widget for the current vehicle of the month. Winner could have a badge on their profile or something. Lots of things you could do.

Just something to think about.

Edited February 16Feb 16 by Matt C.

Definitely things to ponder. Love your feedback, dude. Appreciate your time to leave it!