So, why are we doing pool-mates.com and what is it about ?

The whole thing began from what I would actually want, and can't find right now on the Web. This is a place that I can find people with the same interest as me based on my location. I would particulartly want this in order to meet up with people that really care about the game and play a few frames. In a few clubs, including my home club, there are people that go there every day and therefore you can just show up and challenge them. But these pool clubs are not everywhere, and I run into this problem when I moved to the UK where I haven't still found clubs like that. I'm sure that there are other people here that have the same problem as I've seen posts in forums from people asking others to meet up for practice racks. But this is not the solution to the problem in my opinion.

And this is what pool-mates.com is all about !!

It's a social networking website but is more than that. It's a platform for pool/snooker/billiard players find people to play with. It is also a place for every one of us to keep a pool profile and exchange opinions, organise events, publish news and basically know each other. All of this in a local and world wide scale.

Talking about the scale, this is intended to be translated in as many languages as possible so people from different regions of the world can use it. The views of the website are intended to be localized. So for instance a pool player from China is not particularly interested in people organizing an event in Cambridge UK and the other way around. So it will be basically a set of local communities and a common world wide one.

This is pool-mates.com in a few words. I will regularly update this blog and let you know how the development is progressing and give you samples and ask for your opinions as I go along. Keep in mind that this is an early stage of the project and I'm really interested hearing things from you, and what you would like from this website or in general. The project is flexible and can be shifted towards the direction that we all agree that is best.

I'm looking forward to any positive or negative feedback.

Please leave a comment if you are interested in this website. Also don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested getting involved in the project in any way you believe that you can contribute.

Thanks for reading