HTnini
HTnini is a a CHPP game developed as a plugin for Google Chrome browser that emulates the collection of the famous "Panini cards".
The mind behind this helper application is the French user CHPP-teles 
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History
HTnini come from an old idea. teles started a similar project years ago, back in 2014. The objective was the same, but it was more complex: more types of bonus, many cross-validations, updates, and it involved designing a website. It was never finished or published. In the covid global quarantine situation, teles had some free time… and during rare times like these he always think of new CHPP products.
This is how he decided to resume this project but with a different objective: to publish it in a few weeks! This time, to reach this goal, he set himself the challenge differently. The first thing to do was eliminate everything that requires excessive time. He had to avoid learning a new programming language and any new development techniques and also, avoid a website (it takes a long time), so teles decided to create a browser extension and integrate the entire game on the Hattrick website. The code is strange because he had to code it quickly, but it works and is enough for a first version. The functions are limited to a minimum: albums, cards, market and see other collections.
The result? The game was in production at the expected time! Approximately two weeks of development, and around a week of testing. It was launched in May 2020. One week after the "premier", HTnini has more than 400 subscribers, threads in the most consulted HT forums and users who confess to spend more time on HTnini than on the pages of their own HT teams!
The spanish-written blog HT-Central echoed the success of this launch and chatted a lot with the creator.
Voices of the forum:
HT-Tasos: "I started playing HTnini the first day it came to the Global forum and since then, it's the first thing I do every morning in Hattrick. I believe it is a brilliant idea and fits perfectly to the Hattrick community. I can only congratulate CHPP-teles for both the idea and the implementation. As a heavy Panini collector when I was a kid (I still have the completed album of Greek League of '97), I am really happy with HTnini".
The next great feature was the Store. The idea is that you will be able to buy some decks of cards, and there will be different types of decks.
