My collection spreadsheet got out of hand and now it's a website

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Hello. Introvert designer and developer here. You might remember me from such sites as ffxiv-eureka.com and ffxiv-occult.com. I have a new one for you that has a little bit of everything: xiv-shinies.com. It started out as a collection spreadsheet, which many moons ago I started converting into a collection site, around the same time other collection sites were getting started. Life got in the way (as it does) and it was put on hold, but I've recently rebooted it into something I now use every day. It's been primarily a word-of-mouth app until now, but I'd love to open it up to all you lovely smols and talls. The app itself has 2 primary goals: Track all the things, such as achievements, quests, mounts, minions, triple triad cards (+ more to come shortly). Filter by patch, source, or just what you're still missing. See where it actually comes from including the marketboard cost (powered by Universalis), the drop rate (powered by XIVStats), and any prereqs you need to unlock first. Provide tools that USE your own character's data to help you play the game better - this is the really cool piece that has been super fun to build. Below are a few of the tools I've built, with the caveat that you will need a free account and a claimed character, because all of it hangs off knowing which character is yours. The journal. My favorite thing on the site and the hardest to explain, so: you can turn anything into a goal. A mount, a card, an achievement, that quest you keep forgetting you need to do. Then you get daily and weekly checklists that roll over on the real resets, and you get a sticker every time you finish a task (I stickers). Relics. This is where spreadsheets did a great job, but wow there are so many relic steps now and it was so overwhelming. This tool makes everything simple. It can detect relic steps you already completed based on acquired achievements, and helps you work on the rest, one step at a time, or in one mega list of everything needed for all remaining relics. Occult Crescent. This is the newest one, built with all the learnings from ffxiv-occult.com but simplified and again built with your character's data. It includes info on phantom jobs, actions, records, milestones, and even its own built-in occult tracker. It shows which CEs and FATEs are up and how long they have left, when pots are due, a best guess at when Forked Tower will pop, and a nice countdown when it does. It also tracks which items you still need from each source and I've even added a few helpful guides for the more tricky CEs (I'm looking at you, Fourfold Attack). Also a note on privacy. The tools above are only ever visible to you. If your character is private on the Lodestone, it's automatically private here too, nothing to set up on my end. If your Lodestone is public but you'd rather not be, you can still make individual characters or your whole account private, or share with only the people you pick. You can export everything you've got, and deleting your account takes it and everything attached to it with it. Lastly, I want to say there's a lot of amazing fan sites out there already and I use many of them myself ( you Teamcraft). I'm not trying to replace them. Hats off to all the hardworking devs and content creators out there. I know how hard you work and you make this game more fun to play. If you'd like to join the discord to follow releases, help with testing, or just to say hi, you can do so here: https://discord.gg/TzNBhQCnh I hope someone finds some of these tools useful if you're struggling like me with organizing all the things (I see you). Happy collecting! submitted by /u/noranda [link] [comments]

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