FACEIT Prefire VS ViewForge

FACEIT Prefire's answer

Most FACEIT tools tell you how good your opponent is. Prefire tells you how they play.

When the match room loads, Prefire pulls each opponent's public demos and replays their past rounds on an interactive tactical map: the paths they actually walked, the grenades they actually threw with full trajectories, a timeline you can scrub, and CT/T heatmaps of where they hold and where they take opening duels.

Two things make that unusual:

• It happens inside the lobby. No link to paste, no site to open, no account, no API key. The scouting layer appears on the FACEIT page you are already looking at.
• It is movement, not numbers. A rating tells you a player is good. A replay of his last five rounds tells you he takes the same off-angle at palace every single time.

It is free, it reads only finished public matches, and it never touches the game client.

ViewForge's answer:

Three things. (1) Data ownership: ViewForge writes fitment as Shopify metaobjects native to your store — most competitors store fitment in their own database. (2) 8 verticals out of the box: auto, motorcycle, tractor, marine, power equipment, bicycle, printer, electronics — most competitors are automotive-only. (3) Smart Parse: extract fitment automatically from your existing product titles and descriptions instead of re-typing everything.

FACEIT Prefire's answer

Prefire does a different job than most of the tools it sits next to:

• Leetify analyses your own play to make you better. Prefire analyses the five people about to shoot at you. They work well together.
• Repeek is an excellent quality of life layer for FACEIT: elo, auto accept, match history. It has no tactical scouting. Prefire runs alongside it.
• csstats.gg and Tracker.gg give you numbers. Numbers do not tell you which corner a player holds on the second round of a gun round.
• Scope.gg Prematch is the closest thing to Prefire, and the honest comparison is this: Scope costs 7.99 a month, needs an account and a card, and makes you copy your lobby link into their website before every match. Prefire is free, needs no account, and is simply already there when the room opens.

The short version: if you want prematch scouting without a subscription and without a five step routine before every game, that is the gap Prefire fills.

ViewForge's answer:

Data ownership. Fitment lives in your Shopify metaobjects, so uninstalling does not take your compatibility data with it. Convermax, EasySearch and PartFinder all keep it in their own databases, and getting it back depends on their export tooling on the day you cancel.

Cost at the low end. The search widget, the compatibility table on the product page and the saved-vehicle garage are all on the free tier, up to 50 products, with no expiry. EasySearch puts the table and the garage behind its $75/month Premium plan. Convermax starts at $250/month.

Automotive and non-automotive coverage. Eight built-in templates, and fully custom templates from $19/month, for catalogs that do not decompose into Year/Make/Model at all.

FACEIT Prefire's answer

Competitive Counter-Strike 2 players on FACEIT who care about winning the match, not just tracking their rating.

In practice that means:

• Solo queue and stack players who want to know what they are walking into before the first round
• Players who understand that watching your opponents' demos works, but do not have two hours per match to do it
• Team and mix captains preparing a veto and a default against a known opponent
• Mid to high level players, where opponents have enough recent matches for patterns to be real rather than noise

The interface is available in English and Russian. Demo based features currently cover Mirage, while stats, form, bans and team ELO work on every map.

ViewForge's answer:

Shopify merchants whose customers need to know whether a part fits before they will buy it — and who do not have an engineer on staff to build that themselves.

Concretely: auto and truck parts retailers, powersports and motorcycle dealers, tractor and agricultural parts sellers, marine and outboard suppliers, small-engine and power equipment stores, bicycle and e-bike component shops, printer supply merchants, and electronics accessory sellers.

Catalog sizes run from a few dozen products on the free tier up into the tens of thousands; it is running in production on a catalog of roughly 40,000 SKUs. The common thread is not the industry — it is that "does this fit my thing" is the question deciding the sale.

FACEIT Prefire's answer

Prefire started as a tool I built for myself.

Professional teams prepare for opponents by watching their demos. Everyone else queues blind, loses to the same off-angle three times in a row, and calls it bad luck. The gap is not skill, it is preparation time.

So I wrote a parser that pulled public FACEIT demos and drew where players had actually been standing. It was a local script before it was anything else. The useful part turned out not to be the statistics but the picture: once you see five rounds of someone's movement on a map, the pattern is obvious in seconds.

That became a browser extension so the picture appears where the decision gets made, in the match room itself. It went public on the Chrome Web Store in August 2026 and is in open beta now: free, no paid tier, source on GitHub, map coverage expanding from Mirage outward.

Prefire is developed independently and is not officially endorsed by or affiliated with FACEIT.

ViewForge's answer:

ViewForge came out of agency work. Normal View was building for a parts retailer running roughly 12,000 SKUs who needed fitment search, and every app we evaluated stored the merchant's compatibility data in the vendor's own database.

That is a strange trade when you look at it directly. Fitment data is genuinely expensive to produce — it is weeks of work — and the merchant would not own the result. It would belong to whichever app happened to be installed that year.

Shopify metaobjects made a different answer possible: write fitment as native structured data inside the merchant's own store. The theme reads it, the Storefront API queries it, Admin GraphQL exports it, and it is still there after an uninstall. That decision is what the rest of the app is built around.

Everything else came from real catalogs rather than a roadmap. Eight verticals exist because a tractor catalog is not Year/Make/Model. Smart Parse exists because that retailer had already written fitment into 12,000 product titles, and nobody was ever going to retype them.

FACEIT Prefire's answer

Extension (browser) - TypeScript 5.7 on Manifest V3 - Vite 6 with @crxjs/vite-plugin for the build - No UI framework. The only runtime dependency is @sentry/browser, so the extension injects a minimal bundle into faceit.com rather than a framework - Canvas based tactical replay player, embedded as a reusable iframe - Vitest with happy-dom for the test suite

Backend (API and analysis) - Python 3.12 with FastAPI and Uvicorn - PostgreSQL through SQLAlchemy 2.0 and psycopg3, migrations via Alembic - Pydantic v2 for validation, slowapi for rate limiting, cachetools for the hot public paths - awpy 2.x with zstandard for demo parsing, numpy for the positional maths - httpx and Playwright for data collection

Infrastructure - Docker multi stage builds on a VPS behind Caddy for TLS - PostgreSQL backups with pgBackRest, point in time recovery tested with a restore drill - Static landing page on Cloudflare Pages - Sentry on both sides, plus a separate telemetry service

Quality - ruff, black and mypy in the toolchain, pip-audit on dependencies

ViewForge's answer:

• TypeScript
• Shopify metaobjects, as the fitment data store
• Shopify theme app extensions for the storefront components: fitment search, saved-vehicle garage, compatibility table, product-page fit notice
• Shopify Storefront API, for querying fitment from the theme
• Shopify Admin GraphQL API, for writing and exporting fitment records
• NHTSA vehicle database, for VIN decoding
• ACES and PIES XML parsing, for automotive catalog import

FACEIT Prefire's answer

Prefire is in free open app and has no commercial customers yet. It is used by individual FACEIT Counter-Strike 2 players and by a few small teams and mixes preparing for their own matches.