ABOUT PLAYVIEW
Our Story
Two journeys. One vision.
playview.eu didn't start in 2026. It started fifteen years earlier, as an idea that never left my mind. I dreamed of a place where gamers, movie lovers, and series addicts could share not only ratings, but stories, opinions, memories, and experiences. A personal entertainment lifeblog, created with love for content and with absolute respect for the community. See the 3 tabs below and read in detail how the idea was born, what the basic experience is, and all the available features.
Today, that initial idea becomes a reality.
Welcome to playview.eu
The Journey
The Story Behind Playview
- 2009
The Idea Is Born
Towards the end of 2008, I changed careers and left the games industry behind. Around the same time, an idea began to take shape in my mind
- 2011
The First Sketches
The first sketches filled the page.
The idea started with a simple question: why focus only on games? But an even bigger question quickly followed.
How could it become something more than just another website?
- 2013
Creating mockups in Photoshop
The ideas finally escaped the sketchbook and evolved into the first complete mockups of playview.eu. My vision finally had a name. "Play" was inspired by my passion for video games, while "View" reflected my love for movies and TV series.
- 2015
The Vision Takes Shape
The ideas had outgrown a notebook. An entire design wall became covered with Photoshop printouts, sketches, user flows, and handwritten notes. For the first time, every piece began to fall into place, and the vision started taking real shape.
- 2016
Expenses, Expenses, Expenses! Revenue? Silence...
By mid-2016, after already spending seven years designing playview.eu, a friend asked me the most obvious question: "Everything you've shown me looks impressive... but why? You've been spending money on this for years. Have you even thought about how it's going to make money?"
That's when I revealed the shocking truth...!
- 2019
The First Major Attempt... and a Painful Shipwreck
The first line of code is written. The journey begins... but it ends in a major shipwreck! (spetacular failure)
- 2024
The Last Revision Before Everything Changed
It had been almost four years since the last time I had truly worked on playview.eu. In the meantime, the world had changed. The COVID-19 pandemic was finally behind us, but it had left behind a strange feeling. It was as if a few years had simply disappeared into a period that everyone remembers, yet no one can quite place in time.
- 2026
The Technology That Was Born to Meet the Dream
It was the first hours of 2026. Two more years had passed and yet, every single one of my ideas remained locked away inside a folder on my hard drive named...
Then, almost as a whisper, that familiar little voice returned.
"So... are you finally going to do something this year? Is it time?"
