[Journey] Game Account Generator From Scratch - Dev To IM

Hi all,

I thought I’d document my journey building a game account generator site from scratch, development (front & back end) to the IM side.
The site will have a free game hack type tier and a selection of premium accounts.

Weapons of choice - ASP Core MVC 3.1/ C# & SQL Server.

Admin panel - I will create an admin panel where I can upload my own self sourced accounts, for ease of use. There will also be some basic sales reporting features and will leave room for other nice bits once live and deployed (or bored).

Front end - This will be in Razor pages courtesy of ASP (I do know Angular well but for speed, I'm much faster working in ASP MVC).
I have purchased an HTML template that has some great components I can use for my front end design.

News RSS - I’ve found a decent RSS feed for the game, so will include that with a carousel displaying game news.

Auto Tweet Bot - I already have a scheduled auto tweet microservice on my server (for a different project) it just needs a few parameters to post. Will run this every x hours tweeting either the latest news article or an account, and will also fire it off (one time) when I upload a new premium account from my admin panel.

Payment gateway - I’ve done a bit of research and would probably go with a more high risk gateway like 2checkout and then GoUrl.io for BTC to avoid any headaches in the future. Suggestions welcome.

CPA - Again more research needs to be done on this possibly CPABuild, again suggestions welcome.

Affiliate - Will use clickbank and photoshop some images for the ads, then disguise them in with the news carousel and accounts.

Other bits

Hosting - I have my own VPS.

Source control - Github private repo.

Project Management - I use Trello boards as they are great for keeping track of tasks, I really recommend them to everyone, not just devs.


IM strategy:

• I have already used a service on here and my last project is awaiting the outcome, so if all goes well I will reuse their services again.
• Twitter - Try and automate this as much as possible.
• YouTube - Will upload videos to show account generator working, use some views, comments services etc.
• Instagram - Utilize this platform similarly to above, use promotions to target hashtags.

Side note - I may possibly build a bot to automate buying accounts for me.
I‘ve done my research on a marketplace and automating the process is doable yet time consuming (2FA, captchas amongst other things), as of now that will take a backseat until I get this up and running and earning.

Current spend is at around £11/ $15 for the domain name and template. I won’t include the VPS as that hosts around 4 other projects.

So what now?

Target is ~2 weeks development (providing other projects don’t interfere too much), then focus on IM. I will start tomorrow.
I will try to give updates without being too spammy, I don't want this going stale. It will be just a briefing of what’s been achieved, blockers etc. And answer any questions.

Well that’s it for now folks, thanks for taking the time to read this and hopefully you enjoy .

Good luck on your journey. Please do keep us updated.

good luck with this journey. nice plan so far

bigblobz said:

The site will have a free game hack type tier and a selection of premium accounts

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So... Are you make CPA sites, right?

That's great to put your skill to another passion! Good luck on your journey and let us know how it goes

That's well planned journey keep us updated. Good luck

So, you're going to find accounts for cheap somehow and then sell them for a profit? Did i understand? I'm guessing you wont share what are those games.

Thank you all for the kind words and response.

iamcholo said:

So... Are you make CPA sites, right?

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That will be a primary factor but will also have premium accounts to sell as well.

soirandom said:

So, you're going to find accounts for cheap somehow and then sell them for a profit? Did i understand? I'm guessing you wont share what are those games.

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Update - Day 1
I converted the HTML template into ASP's razor pages, but my focus was mainly on the admin panel and implementing authentication so I could create myself as an admin user.
I can now perform CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations on products, so adding free and premium ones will be a breeze.

Tomorrow I will clean up some code and proceed with the actual front-facing part of the site.

I'll post another update in the midweek.

Day 3 Update

So I've gotten through a lot more than anticipated, I would say the site is around 75% done!

I've worked a little more on the admin panel/ back end and then moved onto doing a good chunk of the main site (minus payment gateway and content locker part), as expected there were a few CSS and JS tweaks here and there but overall pleased with the front end look and UX.

Tomorrow I will integrate the BTC payment gateway courtesy of GoUrl.io and possibly apply for 2Checkout.

I also need to apply for my content locker system. I've been doing my research and may go for OGAds
as they seem to be rather supportive of us here at BHW.

Now I understand this is an IM forum and not a 'Dev logging' forum, buuuut I'm nearly done (and thought
people may like to get a little insight into that side of things). I'll be onto the IM side very soon.

I'll update again on Friday .

Keep up! What's a game account generator by the way?

bigblobz said:

Day 3 Update

Now I understand this is an IM forum and not a 'Dev logging' forum, buuuut I'm nearly done (and thought
people may like to get a little insight into that side of things). I'll be onto the IM side very soon.

I'll update again on Friday .

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Please do continue updating us on the dev side of things as well. There are many current and former coders and developers here on BHW who love reading this type of journey from all angles.

good luck with this journey.

Following. Seems like a cool journey

AWSProxies said:

Keep up! What's a game account generator by the way?

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On the site, there will be gaming accounts up for grabs for a particular game and you can click to generate account details for them, either free or premium.

silentHQ said:

Please do continue updating us on the dev side of things as well. There are many current and former coders and developers here on BHW who love reading this type of journey from all angles.

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Glad it's appreciated

Following. Seems like a unique journey. Wish you the best @OP

Day 5 Update

The site is very close to being done.

Everything has come together nicely; frontend wise, the HTML template was nicely structured and documented, so customizing it was a breeze.
The same can't be said after wrestling with the payment gateway's JS library and (lack of) docs .

The backend has all been done, that's in C# and EF Core, adhering to SOLID principles and clean architecture.

The admin panel is also done (front end in bootstrap 4.5) and has:

• Dashboard with sales reporting
• Adding/ editing/ removing accounts
• Inbox/ customer service section for viewing and replying to any messages sent through the contact form (useful if they have issues with premium accounts)
• Role manager, so I can add/ remove/ edit users for the admin panel

Things to do:

• About us page
• SEO stuff (open graph, robots.txt, etc.)
• Make social media accounts
• Apply for OGAds
• Hopefully, go live on Sunday

I shall be back with an update on Sunday and if all goes well I can move onto IM next week.

Day 5 Update

I think my previous post got lost in Friday's busy feed so will keep this one short.

The site is live, I have a content locker implemented and social media.

Managed to get some site views from just one 'test' tweet so that's promising.

I will update in the midweek.

Day 9 Update

So my other project has had most of my attention this week as traffic surged over the weekend.

That's not to say I've been doing nothing on this project;

I have paid for SEO through an agency on here (that did my last project).

Traffic from Instagram and Twitter, have had a lot of engagement.

Twitter engagement is 400 to 1000+ interactions per tweet, but that's only converting to ~10 visitors but I'm not really pushing it (yet).

The rest of the week shall be focussing on developing a bot, as you all probably know manual social media work is very tedious.

For those interested:
Bot will be a microservice and will be developed in NodeJS this time as I am really enjoying the lightweight setup with express.
That will be coupled with scheduled tasks for every x hours.

Will chime in again around Friday .

Mods can you close this thread it's gotten too stale.