Field notes
Blogs
Community updates, building playbooks, event recaps, and practical notes from Open Box servers.
Where We Go From Here
OpenBox has gone from a club side-project to its own independent community. Here is what we are focused on next and what we want to build with you.
2026-06-29
OB GG Is in Beta
OB GG is our gaming server. We built it to bring more people into the OpenBox world and give gamers in the community a dedicated home. It is live now in beta.
2026-06-29
The New Website
We rebuilt openboxcomm.in from the ground up on Next.js and Vercel. Here is what it does now and what is coming next, including a dedicated ticketing site with Discord login.
2026-06-29
The First Website Broke
We shipped our first website fast, felt good about it, and then watched it break in production. A build failure we did not catch for way too long.
2026-06-29
How We Started
OpenBox started as part of a college club. Then things changed, we split off, and built something of our own. Here is the honest version of that story.
2026-06-29