Hey Team Liquid Community,

a friend and I spend the last months building an app to find new friends for League of Legends. Here is the result.

TL:DR:
* A web & mobile app to find gamers you really enjoy playing with and chat for your friends.
* Check it out here: www.getsoj.com



Hey Team Liquid community,

I guess you all know the pain to play SoloQue with toxic strangers that feed, leave or flame. Strangers steal your role in champion select, wish you cancer when you make a mistake, report you for bullshit reasons and make unpredictable gameplays that will lose you the game. Playing a game that needs an incredible amount of team play with strangers is, in most cases, a pain in the ass. And by nature, trying to solve the complex challenges on the rift with 4 random players that don’t communicate with each other is close to impossible.

The most obvious solution to solve this problem is queuing up with a team of friends.
You can discuss your strategy and champion picks in advance, make good calls during the game and in general, playing is 10 times more fun because people you know won’t flame like strangers do once a mistake happens.

But what if playing SoloQue with strangers is the only option for you because:
* Nobody of your friends is available to play?
* Your friends are on a different skill level (like Bronze and you Platin)?
* You don’t have lots of friends playing League or don’t know anybody?

A friend and I experienced the problem playing with toxic strangers over and over and thought:
Why isn’t there a solution to easily find gamers you really enjoy playing League with?
We’ve now build an app to solve the problem and want you to give it a try.

How it works

Profile:
Create your profile with:
League information (in-game name, ranking, role, favorite champions)
Personal information (profile picture, username, age, and description)

When you add your in-game name (Summoner name) we’ll check with the Riot API your level, ranking and online status and display that information only to your friends (gamers you accepted on the app). If you have multiple accounts (like smurfs) you can add those too.

Find New Gamers:

You can swipe through gamers and send a friend request if you want to connect.
To make sure you’ll only see those that match your preferences we’ve added filters like ranking, role, region, age or language. Filters enable you to e.g. only search for a support player on gold who’s 20-23 years old.

You can also find players directly by their unique username in the app (the @name).
You can also share the URL that links to your profile to let other gamers find you (like an OP.GG link).

Chat, Friend List & Online Status:

Once gamers accept your friend request, you can chat and see if they are online to easily figure out when to play. You can also see on which Summoner Account they are currently playing (e.g. main or smurf). Think of it as a combination of WhatsApp and the League of Legends friend list.

Status & what’s coming in the future:

The app currently works in the browser on your PC & Mobile phone and we’re planning to add more features in the future. Next, we want to make the current version more stable and build the Android app. Later on, we’re planning to add group chats and a group finder feature, just to name a few

If you made it this far reading and also had a look at the app, we’re curious what you think :-)

Sven and Phil,
the developers.

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