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Exactly one year ago today, I got fed up with tab juggling when running my D&D games and decided to build something to organize it all. VTTs were too cumbersome for me because it r…

ah that's right, thanks for correcting. still, I think my other remark about his writings stand.

geohotz, the infamous person who cracked the PS3 at the time. Been following him since that time and this project since he started it. His blogs have always teetered on the edge of…

I suspect the migration to Azure is continuing to go well

dddice[0] a multiplayer dice roller that allows your entire party to collect, customize, and roll 3D dice live using any of your favorite tabletop tools. We have integrations for: …

“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.” https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

Thanks! Frontend stack is React, Three.js, and Cannon.js. We use FBX for the models mostly but started to support GLB files recently which open up a world of new options for custom…

Thank you :) Laravel, MySQL (Planetscale), Redis. Hosted on fly.io Total monthly expenses is somewhere near $30/mo which is less than I've paid for personal hosting at times.

3D dice rolling with friends https://dddice.com Have some ideas on monetization in the future but for now it's just fun

Did the company make money? That's the reality of it. You don't need shiny frameworks or any of those tools to make money. Are developers happy with it? Maybe! Nothing wrong with s…

Been using fly.io - Started to move professional projects over too

Love seeing Laravel in the wild. We've had a lot of success with it so far. Good luck with the project! Completely aside, but I used to write PHP 10-ish years ago during the PHP 3/…

Hey HN Co-founder of dddice here. Feel free to ask any questions about our infrastructure, codebase, or my latest D&D characters!

https://dddice.com - 3D dice roller "Use boring technology" - Laravel, MySQL, Fly.io for hosting We automate nearly all aspects of the business as well. If a task needs to be done …

I created a 3D digital dice rolling app for tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. Been slowly adding features to it for just under a year. No timelines, no stress. Gr…

Sounds like you have poor self-control. I've been working from home for 6-years and never once had this problem. There are many ways to form productive habits at home; for example,…

I've been using PHP for our latest venture after 8+ years of node.js and it's become the de facto language to use at our company. Anyone writing comments about "scaling" or "perfor…

s/php/node.js/g

This is an interesting concept. Would the API help fill in this type of feature? You could roll using the API and use the return to perform a lookup in a table you design.

Good question - The dice organizer (to the left of the roll buttons) lets you organize different dice themes into your bottom piles. You can also customize your own themes with the…