Web design · Development · 2026
The first website for an airsoft club
A club and shop in Lublin. Before, everything ran on a Facebook page and on the owner himself. I built a site that takes the routine off his plate.
Game sign-ups, player lists, insurance, parental consent for anyone under 18. The owner did all of it by hand, through Facebook and paper.
Research
I went into the shop for 10 minutes and stayed for 6 hours. I talked to the owner, players and regular customers and wrote down everything that got in their way.
Then I looked at where the community talks online. There are lots of people, but they're spread across Telegram, Discord and Facebook.
What I heard and what I did
What I heard: The shop has no fixed hours and the owner is often at games. People came to a locked door and called him
What I did: Shop status on the site: open or closed, plus a short note on when he'll be back. The owner changes it himself
What I heard: Fake Facebook accounts booked 50+ spots and never showed up, but he still brought gear for everyone
What I did: Booking by email and phone. Mass booking from fake accounts got much harder
What I heard: On Facebook you couldn't sign up a whole team at once
What I did: A whole team signs up from one phone
What I heard: 100+ players every Sunday, and he copied each one by hand for the insurance
What I did: The insurance list builds itself and can be saved as a PDF or printed
What I heard: Every player under 18 needed a parental consent form sent separately
What I did: If a player is under 18, the consent form lands in their inbox automatically
What I heard: People didn't show up and didn't cancel
What I did: A confirmation email with one-click cancel
What I heard: Beginners wanted to try but didn't know what to bring or how it all works
What I did: A beginners page: what to bring, how a game day goes, gear included in the price
How it looks
The site is dark and serious, like the game itself: an almost black background, photos from the field, a narrow typeface and one red color for accents. You can book a game right from the first screen.
What's next
After launch we'll add a page for corporate events. Later we want to build a place for the whole Lublin airsoft community: teams, ratings, tournaments, a marketplace and a forum.
- Corporate events
- Teams and rosters
- Rankings and tournaments
- Shop and marketplace
- Forum
Launching Nov 2026
After launch we'll track:
- How many people don't show up
- How much time lists and insurance take
- How many calls about the closed shop
✦ What I took away
The most useful stuff didn't come from a scripted interview, it came from just talking in the shop. People told me what got in their way, and almost all of it ended up on the site.