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About

The home for board game lovers

A community-driven platform to discover, track, and discuss the games you love — built by players, for players.

153K
Games catalogued
28
Platforms tracked
12
Community members

Our mission

BoardGameMatcher was built to solve a simple problem: finding your next favourite board game is harder than it should be. Whether you're a seasoned hobbyist with 300 games on the shelf or someone buying their first game for family nights, you deserve tools that actually help.

We catalogue thousands of games, layer on community ratings and personal collection tracking, and combine it all with smart recommendations — so you spend less time searching and more time playing.

The team

A solo (for now) project with a big love for cardboard.

J
Julien
Engineering

Tech stack

Built with performance, reliability, and maintainability in mind. No JavaScript frameworks — just fast server-rendered HTML with progressive enhancement.

Python
Litestar
PostgreSQL
asyncpg
HTMX
Alpine.js
Jinja2
Redis / Dragonfly
Kubernetes (k3s)
imgproxy
Hetzner Cloud

Get in touch

Have feedback, a question, or just want to say hi? Get in touch or join the Discord server.

Support the project

BoardGameMatcher is free, open, and ad-free. If you enjoy using it, consider buying us a coffee to help cover hosting costs and keep the project going.

☕ Support on Ko-fi
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