Who is TheYuriG?

Yuri on the right, standing sideways, looking left with his arms crossed. The entire ground is sand, the background is a rock all and the sun is at 45 degrees creating large shadows.

I'm Yuri Gabriel, also known online as TheYuriG. I used to be a hardcore gamer, but now obsessed with writing code and creating pretty things to look at and fun to use.

For some good portion of the most last decade, I was using the majority of my free time earning some of the hardest trophies out there on PSN, never shying away from the next hard game to complete.

Trophy hunting, while fun, often times can feel like another job. You often feel like you have to track so many moving parts at once to make sure you don't miss anything and you stay efficient.

Programming

In late 2017, I felt like trophy hunting would be greatly improved if we could get a way to link and display our trophies on Discord, but no bots out there offered this kind of data.

After searching far and wide and not really getting anywhere with it, in March 2018 I decided that if no one was willing to create a Discord bot for trophy hunting, then I was going to need to do it myself. And so I did, I learned how to write Javascript and started Yura.

Yura's latest avatar

I've kept maintainining and adding new features to Yura for several years, before it ultimately collapsed when its data source killed all external access by implementing a stronger DDoS protection through Cloudflare.

Myself and a few other members had been asking for several new features for years, but ultimately all of our feedback fell in deaf ears. It couldn't go on like that anymore, something had to be done about it.

Trophy Place

Myself and Makowo decided to start our own trophy hunting website that would end up addressing the majority of the community requests and complaints. After all, who knows better what the trophy hunting community wants, if not the community itself?

Since I've already had some experience building the backend, I chose to manage all of the infrastructure for Trophy Place (inactive) while Makowo was responsible for the frontend.

Our chosen tech stack is Vue 3 + Nuxt 3 for the frontend, with Express for the backend for our MVP.

It has been a gargantuan task to build everything with just the two of us, but we made good progress and hosted a few open betas, which got us good feedback. We are currently tinkering away just the two of us before we do the full launch.